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Adaptations, 2011-12
Mellon Faculty Research Seminar
2011–2012 Calendar

All meetings Tuesdays, 12–2p, Nevil Classroom, Penn Museum
Open to invited guests only.

Fall 2011
13 Sept Welcome and Introductions (Jim English)
20 Sept Rick Warner (Respondent: Karen Beckman)
Research in the Form of a Spectacle: The Essay as Intermedial Adaptation
27 Sept Sally Scholz (Respondent: Theresa Runstedtler)
Feminist Adaptations in the Wake of Globalization
04 Oct Talissa Ford (Respondent: Michael Gamer)
"We Come From the Sea": A Pirate Revolution
11 Oct No Session, Fall Break
18 Oct

Giovanna Lerner (Respondent: Jim English)
Spaces of Adaptation in Contemporary Italian Cinema

25 Oct Pierce Salguero (Respondent: Jinping Wang)
Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China: Translation as Adaptation in Historical Context
01 Nov Tamara Neuman (Respondent: Micah Alpaugh)
Seizing Zion: A Cultural Account of Religious Adaptation and Jewish Settlement over the Green Line
08 Nov Amy Cimini (Respondent: Saul Rosenthal)
Baruch Spinoza and the Matter of Music: Towards a New Practice of Theorizing Musical Bodies
15 Nov Linda Chance (Respondent: Eiichiro Azuma)
Pillow Notes or Tedium's Leaves? Authorizing Expression in Japanese Literary Traditions
22 Nov No Session, Thanksgiving
29 Nov Christopher Nygren (Respondent: Lisa Cerami)
Painting on Stone: Artistic Practice and the Meaning of Materials in Renaissance Images
06 Dec Theresa Runstedtler (Respondent: Sally Scholz)
Coons, Cakewalkers, and Dandies: The McAdoos and the Global Imagination of Minstrelsy
   
Spring 2012
17 Jan Lisa Cerami (Respondent: Warren Breckman)
Medieval Adaptations: Union, Communion, and Community in German Expressionism
24 Jan Micah Alpaugh (Respondent: Talissa Ford)
Protest in the Age of Democratic Revolutions: London, Boston and Paris Compared, 1750-1795
31 Jan David Grazian (Respondent: Jim English)
From Menagerie to Conservation Center: The Adaptations of City Zoos in the United States
07 Feb Farzaneh Hemassi (Respondent: Amy Cimini)
Iranian Popular Music in Exile: Media, Politics, and Publics
14 Feb Eiichiro Azuma (Respondent: Ayako Kano)
Adaptive Imperialism: Transpacific Migration and Japan's Agrarian Settler Colonialism
21 Feb Paul Patterson (Respondent: Sarah Dowling)
Mirror to Devout People (Speculum devotorum):
An Edition
28 Feb Michael Gamer (Respondent: Devin Griffiths)
iPhone Austen and xBox Dante: When Adaptation Becomes a Game
06 Mar No Session, Spring Break
13 Mar Ian Verstegen (Respondent: Giovanna Lerner)
Cognitive Glue and the Veneration and Destruction
of Images
20 Mar Supriya Ghandi (Respondent: Farzaneh Hemassi)
Translating Hinduism: Dara Shikoh and Persion Textual Cultures in Early Modern South Asia
27 Mar Karen Beckman (Respondent: Rick Warner)
Animating Analog Histories: Cinema, Photography and the Adaptive Pressure of New Media
02 Apr Academic Publishing in the 21st Century (12-1:30pm) Publishing Workshop (2-5:30pm)
03 Apr Ayako Kano (Respondent: Linda Chance)
Religion, Politics, and Sexuality in Euro-American Adaptations of a Classical Japanese Performance Genre