Past Faculty Seminars
Faculty seminars offer time for colleagues across disciplines to interrogate concepts integral to contemporary humanistic inquiry and to examine their strategic deployment in cultural and scholarly discourse.
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"Technology & Justice: Mediating Communities"
2023-24
Leaders: Sorelle Friedler (Computer Science) and Laura McGrane (English)
Participants: Tarik Aougab (Mathematics and Statistics); Jane Chandlee (Linguistics); Marla Kohlman (Sociology); Xerxes Minocher (Peace, Justice and Human Rights, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow); Helen White (Chemistry, Environmental Studies)
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"Exclusion, Inclusion, and the U. S. Academy"
2022-23
Leaders: Guangtian Ha (Religion) and David Harrington Watt (Quaker Studies)
Participants: Ted Brzinski (Physics and Astronomy); Dennis Hogan (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow; Peace, Justice, and Human Rights); Sarah-Jane Koulen (Peace, Justice, and Human Rights); Nimisha Ladva (Writing Program); Benjamin Le (Psychology); Qrescent Mali Mason (Philosophy)
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"The Senses and the Sensible"
2021-22
Leaders: Lindsay Reckson and Gustavus Stadler
Participants: Guangtian Ha (Religion); Emily Hong (Anthropology, Visual Studies); Christina Knight (Visual Studies); Jia Hui Lee (Anthropology, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow); Ava Shirazi (Classics)
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"Again as Before: Reenactment"
2020-21
Leaders: Vicky Funari (Visual Studies) & John Muse (Visual Studies)
Participants: Kathryne Corbin (French & Francophone Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies); Matthew Farmer (Classics); Joshua Milton Moses (Anthropology, Environmental Studies); Erin Schoneveld (East Asian Languages and Culture, Visual Studies); Christina Zwarg (English); Raegan Truax (Visual Studies, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow)
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"Borders and Boundaries"
2019-20
Leader: Molly Farneth (Religion)
Participants: Bethel Saler (History); Lindsay Reckson (English); Paulina Ochoa Espejo (Political Science); Craig Borowiak (Political Science); Imke Brust (German); Elena Guzman (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow)
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"War and Society"
2018-19
Leader: Paul Smith, History
Participants: Susanna Wing (Political Science); Barak Mendsolsohn (Political Science); Matthew McKeever (Sociology); Steve Finely (English); David Watt (Quaker Studies); Huong Nyugen (Postdoctoral Fellow, History)
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Allepo(nica) by Vasco Gargalo, October 2016
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"The Arts of Melancholy"
2017-18
Leader: Richard Freedman, Music
Participants: Andrew Friedman (History); Aniko Szucs (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow); Marilyn Boltz (Psychology); Christina Knight (Visual Studies) ; Erin Schoneveld (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Joel Yurdin (Philosophy)
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Eugène Delacroix, Portrait of the artist as Hamlet, 1821
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"Environmental Design, Sustainability, and Artistic Intervention"
2016-17
Leader: Markus Baenziger, Fine Arts & Joshua Moses, Anthropology/Environmental Studies
Participants: Paulina Ochoa Espojo, Political Science; Karl Johnson, Biology; Benjamin Le, Psychology; Laura McGrane, English; Rafter Sass Ferguson (Environmental Studies, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow)
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Photo by Estefania Hecht-Toltl '16
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"Attending to the Dead"
2015-16
Leader: Hank Glassman, East Asian Languages & Cultures
Participants: Kenneth Koltun-Fromm, Religion; Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl, Psychology; Maud McInerney, English; Graciela Michelotti, Spanish; Jill Stauffer, Philosophy/Peace, Justice and Human Rights; and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Kristen Mills, English
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"Revision/How Time Passes"
2014-15
Leader: Jill Stauffer, Philosophy/Peace, Justice and Human Rights
Participants: Marilyn Boltz, Psychology; Robert Germany, Classics; Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Linguistics; Casey Londergan, Chemistry; Lindsay Reckson, English; and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Roy Ben-Shai, Independent College Programs, Peace, Justice and Human Rights
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"The Anarchist Tradition, Revisited"
2013-14
Leader: Craig Borowiak, Political Science
Participants: Imke Brust, German; Andrew Cornell, Mellon Fellow; Indradeep Ghosh, Economics; Aurelia Gómez, Spanish; Barak Mendelsohn, Political Science; Christina Zwarg, English
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"The Affective Turn"
2012-13
Leader: Gustavus Stadler, English
Participants: Indradeep Ghosh, Economics; Lisa McCormick, Sociology; Rajeswari Mohan, English; Donovan Schaefer (Mellon Fellow); Jill Stauffer, Philosophy; Peace, Justice and Human Rights; Christina Zwarg, English;
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"Changing Technologies of Power in the Entrepreneurial Age"
2011-12
Leader: Jesse Weaver Shipley, Anthropology
Participants: Craig Borowiak, Political Science; Andrew Friedman, History; Maris Gillette, Anthropology; Laurie Hart, Anthropology; Zainab Saleh (Mellon Fellow); Gustavus Stadler, English; William Williams, Fine Arts;
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"Sex, State, and Society in the Early Modern World"
2010-11
Leader: Lisa Jane Graham, History
Participants: Farid Azfar (Mellon Fellow); Cristina Beltrán, Political Science; Israel Burshatin, Comparative Literature; Spanish; Jerry Miller, Philosophy; Bethel Saler, History; Gustavus Stadler, English;
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"Material Identity"
2009-10
Leader: Ken Koltun-Fromm, Religion
Participants: Darin Hayton, History; Hank Glassman, East Asian Studies; Jesse Shipley, Anthropology; Laura McGrane, English; Ruti Talmor (Mellon Fellow); Travis Zadeh, Religion;
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"Visual and Textual Technologies: The Illustrated Book"
2008-09
Co-Leaders: Maud McInerney & Stephen Finley, English
Participants: David Dawson, Religion; Hee Sook Kim, Fine Arts; Rachel Oberter, (Mellon Fellow); Deborah Roberts, Classics; Comparative Literature; Theresa Tensuan, English, Gender & Sexuality Studies;
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"Photography, Modernism, and Post-Modernism"
2007-08
Leader: James Krippner, History
Participants: Kim Benston, English; Laurie Hart, Anthropology; Graciela Michelotti, Spanish; John Muse (Mellon Fellow); Debora Sherman, English; Gus Stadler, English; Christina Zwarg, English;
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"Why We Do Where We Do: Modern Divisions of Science and Literature"
2006-07
Leader: David Sedley, French
Participants: Darin Hayton, History; Danielle Macbeth, Philosophy; Rob Manning, Mathematics; Laura McGrane, English; Michael Booth (Mellon Fellow);
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"Representations of Political Violence and Terrorism"
2005-06
Leader: Raji Mohan, English
Participants: Koffi Anyinefa, French; Cristina Beltran, Political Science; Kim Benston, English; Roberto Castillo-Sandoval, Spanish; Kaye Edwards, General Programs; Zolani Ngwane, Anthropology; Jill Stauffer, (Mellon Fellow);
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"Music–Text–Performance"
2004-05
Co-Leaders: Israel Burshatin, Spanish; Ulrich Schönherr, German
Participants: Steve Finley, English; Richard Freedman, Music; Shizhe Huang, Chinese; Linguistics; Paul Jefferson, History; Raji Mohan, English; Marianne Tettlebaum (Mellon Fellow); Kathleen Wright, Philosophy;
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"Translation and Other Transformations"
2003-04
Leader: Deborah Roberts, Classics, Comparative Literature
Participants: Hank Glassman, East Asian Studies; Duane Kight, French; Laura McGrane, English; Maud McInerny, English; Graciela Michelotti, Spanish; Paul Smith, History; Yiman Wang (Mellon Fellow);
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"Culture, Value, Cultural Value"
2002-03
Leader: Gus Stadler, English
Participants: Vernon Dixon, Economics; Ken Koltun-Fromm, Religion; Jim Krippner-Martinez, History; Jennifer Patico, (Mellon Fellow); Jim Ransom, English; Tina Zwarg, English;
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"Cultures of Exile–Memory, Art, and Ideology in Moder[ist] Diasporas"
2001-02
Co-Leaders: Paul Jefferson, History; Koffi Anyinefa French
Participants: Cristina Beltran, Political Science; Laurie Hart, Anthropology; Tracey Hucks, Religion; Alexander Kitroeff, History; Anita Isaacs, Political Science; Bethel Saler, History;
"Cultures of Exile–Memory, Art, and Ideology in Moder[ist] Diasporas" Description
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"Performance"
1999-00
Leader: Kim Benston, English
Participants: Koffi Anyinefa, French; Israel Burshatin, Spanish; Aryeh Kosman, Philosophy; Rebekah Kowal, (Mellon Fellow); Deborah Roberts, Classics; Comparative Literature; Ulrich Schönherr, German;
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"Displacement, Memory, and Cultural Consciousness"
1998-99
Leader: Kim Benston, English
Participants: David Dawson, Religion; Doug Davis, Psychology; Steve Finley, English; Maris Gillette, Anthropology; Paul Jefferson, History; Michael Sells, Religion; Debora Sherman, English; Kathleen Wright, Philosophy; Tina Zwarg, English;
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"The Narrative Turn"
1997-98
Leader: Kim Benston, English
Participants: Richard Freedman, Music; Ashok Gangadean, Philosophy; Laurie Hart, Anthropology; James Krippner, History; Anne McGuire, Religion; James Ransom, English; Sara Shumer, Political Science;