Mellon Faculty Research Seminar
2008–2009 Calendar |
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FALL 2008 |
| 09 Sept |
Introductions |
| 16 Sept |
Wendy Steiner (Respondent: Peter Struck)
Hold Up the Mirror—Unlock the Door: The Model in the Mirror of Contemporary Culture |
| 23 Sept |
Mara Mills (Respondent: Beth Linker)
Helen Keller, Norbert Wiener and the Hearing Glove |
| 30 Sept |
Emily Dolan (Respondent: Samuel Breene)
Aesthetics, and Musical Culture in the Age of Hayden |
| 07 Oct |
Charlene Mires (Respondent: Kory Olson)
Changing Views of Space and Place at the End of WWII:
The Search for the Capital of the World |
| 14 Oct |
Fall Break (No Session) |
| 21 Oct |
Kristen Stromberg Childers (Respondent: Jason Sokol)
Seeking Imperialism’s Embrace: National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean |
| 28 Oct |
Dustin Kidd (Respondent: Ellen Ledoux)
Legislating Creativity: The Intersections of Art and Politics |
| 04 Nov |
Election Day (No Session) |
| 11 Nov |
John Tresch (Respondent: Kathleen Lubey)
The Romantic Machine: Science and Utopian Technologies in France, 1820 to 1851 |
| 18 Nov |
Nancy Hirschmann (Respondent: Mara Mills)
Change of Life: A Political Theory of Illness and Disability |
| 25 Nov |
Tamara Walker (Respondent: Lloyd DeWitt)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Slaves and Citizens: Dressing the Part in Lima, 1723–1845 |
| 02 Dec |
Meredith Ray (Respondent: Paroma Chatterjee)
The Alchemy of Gender: Women’s Voices, Female Bodies, and Alchemical Discourse in Early Modern Italian Texts |
| SPRING 2009 |
| 20 Jan |
Inauguration Day (No Session) |
| 27 Jan |
Kory Olson (Respondent: Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum)
Mapping the Paris of the Future: French Cartographic Discourse, 1900-1939 |
| 03 Feb |
Paroma Chatterjee (Respondent: Catriona MacLeod)
Shifting Images: A Novel Byzantine Aesthetic |
| 10 Feb |
Lloyd DeWitt (Respondent: Philip Sapirstein)
Rembrandt’s Image of Jesus |
| 17 Feb |
Samuel Breene (Respondent: Damon Horowitz)
The Nervous Body, Sensitive Soul, and Musical Experience in the Age of Sensibility |
| 24 Feb |
Kathleen Lubey (Respondent: Emily Dolan)
Excitable Imaginations: Aesthetics and Eroticism in British Literature of the Eighteenth Century |
| 03 Mar |
Priya Joshi (Respondent: Ellen Scott)
Nationalism and Public Fantasy in Bollywood Cinema |
| 10 Mar |
Spring Break (No Session) |
| 17 Mar |
Jason Sokol (Respondent: Tamara Walker)
The Northern Mystique: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn, 1947–2007 |
| 24 Mar |
David Grazian (Respondent: Charlene Mires)
The Knowledge Industries and the Changing Postindustrial City |
| 31 Mar |
Lisa Kirschenbaum (Respondent: Stephen Amico)
Imagined Revolution: The Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, and the Making of International Communists |
| 07 Apr |
Benjamin Fleming (Respondent: Peter Struck)
Light in Place: Pilgrimage and Story in Medieval Saivism |
| 14 Apr |
Beth Wenger (Respondent: Benjamin Fleming)
History Lessons: The Invention of American Jewish Heritage |
| 21 Apr |
Beth Linker (Respondent: Christina Cogdell)
Walter Reed, Then and Now |
| 28 Apr |
Ellen Ledoux (Respondent: Priya Joshi)
Popular Reforms: Progressive Ideology and Gothic Writing 1760–1820 |
| 29 Apr |
Christina Cogdell (Respondent: John Tresch)
Post-Darwinian Theories and Emergent Genetic
Architecture |
