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April 11, 2012
James Sparrow
, "Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government"
The introduction is given by John D. Kelly.
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February 8, 2012
Norma Field, "From Stagg Field to Fukushima"
The introduction is given by Linda Zerilli.
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November 16, 2011
Stanley Tigerman and W.J.T. Mitchell,
"Architectural Displacement"

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Around1948 | The aim of this Sawyer Seminar is to look at the remarkable historical moment ‘around 1948’ across a range of international locations and from the point of view of several disciplines.  The significance of the seminar consists in the effort to identify, clarify, and compare the shape and form of the novel alignments and institutions to emerge in the wake of 1948.  We wish to avoid the grip of a Cold War teleology – to take seriously the absence of a cold war logic, which was only emergent in 1948.

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Project BambooProjectBamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, andinter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in artsand humanities, computer scientists, information scientists,librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle thequestion: How can we advance arts and humanities research throughthe development of shared technology services?

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Recent Event
BooksCelebrating Humanities Faculty Publications of 2010 & 2011:
The fruit of years of research, collaboration, creation, and writing, the publications of Humanities faculty members - books, CDs, musical scores - are celebrated every year at a special reception for them and their colleagues, toasted by the Dean of the Humanities and the Provost of the University. For this occasion, the publications are also gathered together and displayed at the Institute. This year, the event took place on March 5th.

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Regenstein windowCourses offered this year by the Center for Disciplinary Innovation:

Autumn 2011
Vision and Communism offered by Robert Bird (Slavic Languages & Literatures) and Matthew Jesse Jackson (Art History)

Winter 2012
'Other-speech' and 'Visible words': Allegory, the allegorical, and allegoresis before modernity offered by Daisy Delogu (Romance Languages & Literatures) and Aden Kumler (Art History)
Suspended Between Worlds: Crisis, Displacement, and Disorientation Around 1948 offered by Deborah Nelson (English) and James Sparrow (History)

Spring 2012
Bilingualism: cognition, language, literature, and culture offered by Anastasia Giannakidou (Linguistics) and Na'ama Rokem (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations)
Civil War in Lucan and Flaubert: Literature, History, Theology offered by Michele Lowrie (Classics) and Barbara Vinken (Ludwig-Maximilians-University)
Postcolonial Intersections: The Middle East and South Asia offered by Leela Gandhi (English) and Lisa Wedeen (Political Science)

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