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- Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
- The Chicago Humanities Forum
Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Spring 2008
 Alain Bresson
on economy of the ancient world, economy of the new world
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Introduction by Clifford Ando.
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 Funmi Olopade
on tracing the breast cancer susceptibility gene
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Introduction by James Chandler.
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 Paola Iovene
on world literature in socialist China
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Introduction by Judith Zeitlin.
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 Aden Kumler
on the morphology of the medieval eucharist
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Introduction by Rebecca Zorach.
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 David Nirenberg
on the jewish question: from ancient Egypt to the present
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Introduction by Leora Auslander.
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Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Winter 2008
 Lenore Grenoble
on language endangerment and loss
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Introduction by Victor Friedman.
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 Michael Bourdaghs
on a science of literature
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Introduction by Yyeong-Hee Choi
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 Christine Mehring
on tv art's abstract starts, ca. 1944-1968
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Introduction by Martha Ward
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Nadine Moeller
on recent excavations at Tell Edfu, Egypt
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Introduction by Peter Dorman
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 Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
on the phantom made visible
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
The introduction is given by Matthew Jackson
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 Stephen Raudenbush
on urban education
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Introduction by James Chandler
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 Anton Ford
on the parts and whole of Plato's republic
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Introduction by James
Conant
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 Leela Gandhi
on non-violence and anticolonial metaphysics
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Introduction by Dipesh Chakrabarty
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Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Fall 2007
 Verity Platt
on images and epiphanies in Ancient Greece
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Introduction by Richard Neer
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 Gary Tubb
on texts and tactics
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Introduction by Wendy Doniger
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 Rebecca Hasselbach
on semitics and language typology
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Introduction by Theo van den Hout
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 Paul Copp
on incantations and efficacy in Tang China
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Introduction by Don Harper
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 Randall Landsberg
on cosmological outreach
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Introduction by Michael Turner
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 Tania Bruguera
on her recent art projects
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Introduction by W.J.T. Mitchell
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 James Chandler
on our new Center for Disciplinary Innovation
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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 Françoise Meltzer
on putting words to music: a problem of nationalism
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Introduction by Arnold Davidson
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Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Spring 2007
 Miguel Tamen
in defense of Louis XVI
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Introductions by Mai Vukcevich
and Thomas Pavel
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 Clifford Ando
on legal fictions in the Roman empire
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Jonathan Hall
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 William Wimsatt
on re-engineering philosophy for limited beings
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Robert Richards
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 Theodore L. Steck
on saving the environment
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Dave Aftandilian
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 Ian Hacking
on what has happened to autism
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Jonathan Lear
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 Robert von Hallberg
on sob-ballads
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Mark Payne
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 Barbara Maria Stafford
on the ecapsulation of thought
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Wadad Kadi
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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Spring 2008
 Thomas Pavel
Why Novels Written Long Ago Are About Us
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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 Julie Saville
American Slaves and Their Properties
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Winter 2008
 Robert J. Richards
Darwin's Natural Theology
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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 Lawrence Zbikowski
Birds, Spinning Wheels, Horses, and Sex: Painting Images with Music
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Introduction by Steven Rings
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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Fall 2007
 Wu Hung
What is 'Contemporary Chinese Art?'
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Introduction by James Chandler
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 Jacqueline Goldsby
Abstract Is As Abstract Does: African American Poetry and Painting during the 1940's and 1950's
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Introduction by James Chandler
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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Spring 2007
 Michael Sells
'Translation of Desires:': The Love Poetry of Sufi Master Ibn al-'Arabi (d. 638/1240)
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Introduction by Françoise Meltzer
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 James K. Chandler
Sterne's Sentimental Journey: How Humanities Scholarship Matters
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Bill Brown
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