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Mellon Faculty Research Seminar
2012–2013 Calendar
All meetings Tuesdays, 12–2p,
Nevil Classroom, Penn Museum
Open to invited guests only.
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| 15 Jan |
David Macauley, Peripheral Visions: Pedestrian Aesthetics and Peripatetic Politics in the Urban World |
| 22 Jan |
Laurent Dissard, Submerged Stories on the Sidelines of Science |
| 29 Jan |
Nora Alter, The Third Sense: Architectures of Sound |
| 05 Feb |
Rita Barnard, Over the (Rainbow) Nation: South African Writing, World Literature, and Globalization |
| 12 Feb |
Tim Rommen, "Antillais sans Frontieres": Sounding the Possibilities of a Borderless Caribbean Through Dominica's Creole Musics |
| 19 Feb |
Jamie Taylor, Spanish Wine and Vernacular Invention in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
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| 26 Feb |
Roundtable III: "I Understand How Far Away You Are": Pre-Modern Peripheries, Chris Nygren, Scott Francis, Jamie Taylor |
| 05 Mar |
No Session, Spring Break |
| 12 Mar |
Lauren Ristvet, On the Edge of Empire: Local Identities and Imperial Resistance in Naxçıvan, Azerbaijan |
| 19 Mar |
Jinping Wang, Between Family and State: Networks of Literati, Clergy, and Villagers in Shanxi, North China, 1200-1500 |
| 26 Mar |
Zain Lakhani,
Encounters Known and Strange: Coercion, Violence and the Politics of Defining Rape in America, 1945-1996 |
| 02 Apr |
Kavita Daiya, Peripheral Secularisms: Stories of Refugees, Citizenship and Migration in Modern India, 1947-2010 |
| 09 Apr |
Elidor Mehilli, The Defiant Periphery: Albania from Mussolini's Mediterranean Empire to the Soviet Bloc and Mao |
| 16 Apr |
Eric Jarosinski, Peripheral Revision: Reading Radio, Re-Reading Modernity |
| 23 Apr |
Wrap-Up Session (Jim English) |
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| 11 Sept |
Welcome and Introductions (Jim English) |
| 18 Sept |
David Wallace, Europe: Peripheries and Heartlands, Beginnings and Ends |
| 25 Sept |
Kevin Platt |
| 02 Oct |
Roundtable I: New Maps of World Literature
Kevin Platt, Jim English, Rita Barnard |
| 09 Oct |
Marianna Past, Re-imagining Hispaniola from the "Periphery of
the Margins" |
| 16 Oct |
Monica Kim, Humanity Interrogated: The Wars over War in the Interrogation Room, 1942-1960 |
| 23 Oct |
No Session, Fall Break |
| Oct 30 |
No Session, Campus closed |
| 06 Nov |
Noah Tamarkin, Jewish Blood, African Bones: Belonging in South Africa |
| 13 Nov |
David Barnes, Purgatory-on-Delaware: Life and Death on the Margins at Philadelphia's Lazaretto |
| 20 Nov |
Roundtable II: Space and Sound
Tim Rommen, Amy Cimini, others TBD |
| 27 Nov |
Rossen Djagalov, Premature Post-Colonialists: The Soviet-Afro-Asian Literary Alliance in the Age of Three Worlds |
| 04 Dec |
Scott Spencer, Traditional Music in Our Media Age: How the Irish Diaspora Engages with Local Oral Culture Through Technology, Networks and Community |
| 11 Dec |
Susan Miller, Bloodlines and Lifetimes |
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