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Lecture Series

HOW DO WE KEEP KNOWING? (2006-2007)

Constant Mews, School of Historical Studies, Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Theology, Monash University, Australia, "Questioning the Music of the Spheres: Grocheio, Aristotle, and Curriculum Politics at the University of Paris in the 13th Century"
Linda Martín Alcoff, Philosopy and Women's Studies, Syracuse University, "Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms"
Anthony Grafton, History and the Humanities, Princeton University, "The Origins of Christian Scholarship: Origen, Eusebius and the Library of Caesarea"
Henry Rousso, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, "Post-Holocaust and Post-Colonial Memories: The French Battlefield"
Thomas Mayer, Department of History, Augustana College, "Trying Galileo"

SHOW AND TELL (2006)
Michael Ann Holly, Director of Research, The Clark Art Institute, "The Melancholic Art"
Troy Bickham, Department of History at Texas A&M University, "Visual Culture and Virtual Imperialism in Britain, c. 1688-1830"
Lynne Vallone, Department of English at Texas A&M University, "Rema(r)king Death: Photography and the Image of the Child "
Sarah Misemer, Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University, "Moving Forward and Looking Back at the River Plate: Trains and Memory in El sur y después and El último tren"
Antonio La Pastina, Department of Communication at Texas A&M University, "Building Cool: How Brazil Became Modern "

VISUAL CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES (2006)


Barbie Zelizer
, University of Pennsylvania, "The Visual Culture(s) of Journalism"

VISUAL CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES (2005)


Lauren Berlant, Department of English, University of Chicago, "Capitalism, Compassion, and 'the Children': Rosetta and La Promesse"

 


Ann Bermingham, Department of Art and Architecture, University of California - Santa Barbara), "Women's Work: Print Rooms and Albums in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

 


Philip Auslander, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology) "'Sound is Enough': Spectacle, Theatricality, and Rock Music, c. 1967-1969"


Lynn Higgins, Department of Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, "Can Reality Compete?"

CULTURE BOUND (2004)


Peter Dews, Department of Philosophy, University of Essex, United Kingdom, "Modern Culture, 'Abstract' Morality, and Evil"

 


Lou Roberts, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, "Rosa Bonheur's Lion: Eccentricity and Modern Liberal Culture"
Theodore George, Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, "The Quickening of Culture: Kant, Nature, and the Ends of the Human "
Melanie Hawthorne, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures at Texas A&M University, "A Nationality of Their Own: Renee Vivien, Modernist Women, and Passports"
Edward Portis, Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University, "Communal Identity and Cultural Politics"
Larson Powell, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures at Texas A&M University, "The Differentiation of Culture"

DEFINITIONS OF CULTURE (2004)


Joseph Litvak, Department of English at Tufts University, "Wonderful Town: the Blacklist Musical"

 


Aihwa Ong, Department of Anthropology and Chair of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California - Berkeley, "Re-engineering Personality in the New Chinese Economy"

 


Lynn Hunt, Department of History at the University of California - Los Angeles and Former President of the American Historical Association, "Bodies and Selves in the Eighteenth Century: Toward a Post-Foucaultian History of Personhood"

MANIFESTATIONS OF CULTURE (2003)
Pamela Asquith,Department of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Alberta, "Culture, Protoculture, and the Biosocial Divide: Japanese Perspectives on the Study of Animal Society"
Debra A. Castillo, Department of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, "Disney Calcutta: Maria Novaro and Cheech Marin do Tijuana"
Colin Allen, Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, "Animal 'Culture': Defining the Boundaries"
Mary Ann O'Farrell, Department of English at Texas A&M University, "Jane Austen's Mafia"
José P. Villalobos, Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Texas A&M University, "Blurring the Lines: Border Literature and its Discontents"
Cynthia Werner, Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University, "A Return to Bride Kidnapping: Gender, Marriage, and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan"

DEFINITIONS OF CULTURE (2002-2003)
Sherry Ortner, Department of Anthropology and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Columbia University, "Serious Games"
David Harvey, Department of Anthropology at City University of New York Graduate Center, "Geographical Knowledges/Political Powers"
William Ferris, Department of History and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the American South, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Memory, Sense of Place, and the Humanities"

URBANITY (2001)
Judith Walkowitz, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, "Sex, Lies, and Exotic Dancing in Central London"
Jonathan M. Smith, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, "Imagining Urbanity in Turn-of-the-Century America"
George Chauncey, Department of History, University of Chicago, "Another West Side Story? Latino Gay Culture and Urban Politics in Postwar New York City"
Kathy Peiss, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, "Zoot Suit Revisited:  Urban Style in 1940s America"
Andrew Ross, Department of American Studies, New York University, "Dot.Com Urbanism and the Live/Work Ethos"

LISTENING ACROSS DISCIPLINES: SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (1998-1999)
Evelyn Fox Keller
, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Marrying the Pre-Modern to the Postmodern: Computers and Organisms after World War II"
Anne Fausto-Sterling
, Department of Medical Sciences, Brown University, "Re-Thinking Sex: Science, Feminism, and the Nature/Nurture Divide"
Mary Ann O'Farrell, Department of English, Texas A&M University, "Self-Consciousness and the Psoriatic Personality"
N. Katherine Hayles, Department of English, UCLA, "Crossing the Two Cultures Divide: The Importance of Narrative in Scientific Inquiry"
Felice Frankel, Research Scientist and Artist in Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Power of Images in Communicating Science and Technology"
Bruno Latour, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, "Composing the Common Good: A View from Science Studies"


HISTORY AND ETHICS: THE QUESTION OF THE OTHER (1996-1997)
Tzevtan Todorov
, Director of Research, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, "The Abuses of Memory"
Jean Baudrillard, Author of Simulacra and Simulation, America, Cool Memories, and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, "The Perfect Crime"
Jenny Franchot, Department of English, University of California at Berkeley, "Remembering Religion: Relics, Fragments and the Language of Otherness"
Gayatri Chakravaroty Spivak, Department of English, Columbia University, "Problems with Thinking Ethics for the Other Woman"
Mary Louise Pratt, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University, "The 'Third World': Peripheral Modernity and the Geography of Theory"
Howard Marchitello, Department of English, Texas A&M University, "Heterology and Post-historicist Ethics"
Marshall Sahlins, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, "Sentimental Pessimism and Ethnographic Experience: Why Culture is Not a Disappearing Object"

IGHLS/IGHS TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION (September 19, 1997)
Judith Bennett, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Imagining Maidens and Singlewomen in England, c. 1300-1550"
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Department of English, University of Notre Dame, "Spectacular Bodies: Wulfstan, the Law, and the Anglo-Saxon Subject"

POLITICAL AND CULTURAL ICONOGRAPHY (1994-1995)
Hortense Spillers, Department of English, Cornell University, "On Cultural Memory"
Michael Rogin, Department of Political Science, University of California, "Uncle Sammy and My Mammy"
Alan Trachtenberg, Department of English, Yale University, "Imaginary Indians and American Identity"
Eric Lott, Department of English, University of Virginia, "The Whiteness of Film Noir"
Bryan C. Taylor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, "Nuclear Photography as Novelistic Discourse"


THE NOVEL AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURE (1992-1993)
Louis J. Budd, Department of English, Duke University, "Chanting the Square Mimetic: Realism for All Times and Climes"
Nina Baum, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Woman's Fiction Reconsidered"
D. A. Miller, Department of English, Harvard University, "Austen's Attitude"
Terry Castle, Department of English, Stanford University, "The Apparitional Lesbian"
Robert D. Newman, Department of English, Texas A&M University. "Self-Consuming Art and Facts (Why the Novel Splatters)"
Nancy Armstrong, Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University, "The English Origins of the American Novel"

THE FORMATION AND REFORMATION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (1990-1991)
Wai-chee Dimock, Department of English, University of California, "Historicizing the Reader: Feminism, New Historicism, and The Yellow Wallpaper"
Jane Tompkins, Department of English, Duke University, "Manhood and the Western: Fear, Anestheticization, Sacrifice"
Kenneth M. Price, Department of English, Texas A&M University, "Beyond Boston: Genteel and Modern in American Literature"
Richard H. Brodhead, Department of English, Yale University, "After the Opening: Problems and Prospects for a Reformed American Literature"
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Department of English, Duke University, "On Transforming the American Mind"

HISTORICIZING MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE (1989-1990)
Arthur F. Kinney, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, "Imagination and Ideology in Macbeth"
Glending Olson, Department of English, Cleveland State University, "The Beginning and Ending of the Canterbury Game"
S. K. Henninger, Jr., Department of English, University of North Carolina, "Romancing the Renaissance: The Perils of Periodizing"
David Wallace, Department of English, University of Texas, "Politics, Historiography, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales"

THE USE AND ABUSE OF THE NEW Historicism (1988-1989)
J. Paul Hunter, Department of English, University of Chicago, "Paternity and Patriarchy: History in Macbeth"
Wesley Morris, Department of English, Rice University, "Signatures of Place and Time: Faulkner's Historical Vision"
Stephen Greenblatt, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, "Marvelous Possessions"
Lee Patterson, Department of English, Duke University, "Chaucerian Commerce: Urban Ideology and Literary Practice"

WRITING AND REWRITING LITERARY HISTORY (1987-1988)
Jerome McGann, Department of English, University of Virginia, "The Future of History in Criticism"
Lawrence Buell, Department of English, Oberlin College, "Literary History as a Hybrid Genre"
Marilyn Butler, Department of English, King's College, Cambridge, "English as a World Literature: Internationlizing Literary History"
Ralph Cohen, Department of English, University of Virginia, "Generating Literary Histories"