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 Chicago Humanities Forum
May 7, 2008
Thomas Pavel, “Why Novels Written Long Ago Are About Us”
The introduction is given by Michael Murrin.
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April 9, 2008
Julie Saville, “American Slaves and Their Properties”
The introduction is given by Norma Fields.
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March 5, 2008
Robert J. Richards, “Darwin's Natural Theology”
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February 6, 2008
Lawrence Zbikowski, “Birds, Spinning Wheels, Horses, and Sex: Painting Images with Music”
The introduction is given by Steven Rings.
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Big Problems Lecture
January 23, 2008
Mary Fabri, “Rape & HIV: Weapons of War, Tools of Torture”
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 Recordings from "The Fate of Disciplines" are available online.
Listen to audio from the event that was at once the culmination of a three-year project on "New Perspectives on the Disciplines: Comparative Studies in Higher Education" and the conference for the annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).
Speakers included: James Chandler, Don Michael Randel, Robert Post, Judith Butler, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Tom Gunning, Gertrud Koch, Yuri Tsivian, Sheldon Pollock, François Hartog, Richard Neer, Miriam Hansen, Robert Pippin, Mario Biagioli, Lorraine Daston, Adrian Johns, Amy Hollywood, Saba Mahmood, Bruce Lincoln, Rivka Feldhay, Arnold Davidson, David Wellbery, Marshall Sahlins, Marshall Sahlins, Lisa Wedeen, Helen Mirra, W.J.T. Mitchell, Bill Brown, and Laura Letinsky.
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 The Center for Disciplinary Innovation (CDI) announces the following new courses for the 2008-2009 roster:
Autumn 2008
Love's Books, Love's Looks: Textual and Visual Perspectives on the Roman de la Rose offered by Daisy Delogu (Romance Languages & Literatures) and Aden Kumler (Art History)
Winter 2009
Composing Humans, 1760-1840 offered by James Chandler (English) and Martha Feldman (Music)
The Noise of Empire offered by Vanessa Agnew (University of Michigan, Germanic Languages & Literatures) and Philip Bohlman (Music)
Spring 2009
Poems and Songs offered by Travis Jackson (Music) and Robert von Hallberg (Comparative Literature)
Translating Theory
offered by Robert Bird (Slavic Languages & Literatures) and Loren Kruger (Comparative Literature)
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The following talk is from the Every Wednesday Lunch Series for faculty.
 May 28, 2008
Jacob Eyferth
on artisanal epistemologies in China
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May 21, 2008
Jason Salavon
on recent projects
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Click here to visit Jason Salavon's website.
May 14, 2008
James Chandler, Richard Neer, Bill Brown, Larry Norman and Theaster Gates
on the arts and disciplines working group
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May 7, 2008
Alain Bresson
on economy of the ancient world, economy of the new world
The introduction is given by Clifford Ando.
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April 30, 2008
Funmi Olopade
on tracing the breast cancer susceptibility gene
The introduction is given by James Chandler.
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April 23, 2008
Paola Iovene
on world literature in socialist China
The introduction is given by Judith Zeitlin.
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April 16, 2008
Aden Kumler
on the morphology of the medieval eucharist
The introduction is given by Rebecca Zorach.
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April 9, 2008
David Nirenberg
on the jewish question: from ancient Egypt to the present
The introduction is given by Leora Auslander.
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Click here to view our archive of recordings.
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