The 2003-2006 Mellon Project at the University of Chicago
	New Perspectives on the Disciplines: Comparative Studies in Higher Education
Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

EVENTS 2005-2006

FALL, 2005

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

1:00-2:15 p.m.
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118

Speaker:
Kristin Ross
Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University

Lecture: "Historicizing Untimeliness"
Listen to the Public Lecture (mp3)

Workshop: Round table discussion for faculty and graduate students to follow - 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Respondents: Jan Goldstein, Professor, Department of History and Anita Chari, Mellon Doctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science. Paper copies of the reading, the Introduction and Chapter 2 of May Ô68 and Its Afterlives, by Kristin Ross, are available on The Franke InstituteÕs lobby table. E-reserve copies can be found in the Reserve Catalog. Search under Course Title: Mellon Project 10000, or Instructor: Jim Chandler.

Conference: What is Science Studies?
E-mail enquiries to: johns@uchicago.edu or jtresch@uchicago.edu

11:45-12:30
Buffet lunch

12:30-2:00
THE EMERGENCE OF SCIENCE STUDIES AS A DISCIPLINE:
historical formation/ internal institutional histories/ STS's emergence from other fields

Karin Knorr Cetina, University of Chicago
Robert Brain, University of British Columbia
Emily Martin, New York University
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2:15-3:45
SCIENCE STUDIES AND ITS BOUNDARIES:
border relations with neighboring disciplines/ STS seen from the outside

Ken Alder, Northwestern University
Katherine Hayles, University of California at Los Angeles
John Carson, University of Michigan
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4:00-5:15
Round table
TELEOLOGIES OF SCIENCE STUDIES:
what's at stake?/ political and ethical responsibilities/ relation to the public and to science/ consequences of institutionalization

Trevor Pinch, Cornell University
Thomas Gieryn, Indiana University
Adrian Johns, University of Chicago
Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University
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5:15
Drinks

EVENTS 2004-2005

SPRING, 2005

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FRIDAY, APRIL 29
Symposium: James Ferguson and Achille Mbembe
1:00-2:30 p.m. with reception to follow
South Lounge, Reynolds Club, 5706 S. University Avenue

Speakers:
James Ferguson
Stanford University
"Globalizing Africa? Observations from an Inconvenient Continent"
Achille Mbembe
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
"Knowledge, Funding and Institutions: Experience from the South"

U. of C. faculty respondents: Ralph Austen, History; Jennifer Cole, Human Development
Workshop to follow the reception: 2:45-3:45 p.m.
Open to faculty and graduate students

Speaker:
Tim Mitchell
New York University

Lecture: "The Work of Economics: How a Discipline Makes its World"
Workshop to follow the reception: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Open to faculty and graduate students

Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Institute for Contemporary Thought at the University of Paris VII,
The University of Chicago Center in Paris, and the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Speaker:
Ramon Saldivar
Stanford University

Lecture: "The Postwar Borderlands and the Origins of the Transnational Imaginary, 1945-50"

Speaker:
Doris Sommer
Harvard University

Lecture: "Cultural Agents in the Americas"

WINTER, 2005

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 14
3:00-4:30 p.m. with reception to follow
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118

Discussion:
Led by James Chandler and Arnold Davidson
University of Chicago

Michel Foucault's "The Order of Discourse" inaugural lecture at the University of France, given 2 December 1970
Supplemental readings for the workshop are available on E-Reserve at the Regenstein Library Website under course title: Mellon Project 10000, or Instructor, Jim Chandler.
Paper copies are available at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, JRL S-118.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11
2:00-3:30 p.m. with reception to follow
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118

Speaker:
Francesca Bordogna
Department of History, Northwestern University
Lecture: "Charting Knowledge: William James and Philosophical Trees"
Workshop discussion of "The Energies of Man" by William James, to be read in advance.
Supplemental readings for the workshop are available on E-Reserve at the Regenstein Library Website under course title: Mellon Project 10000, or Instructor, Jim Chandler.
Paper copies are available at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, JRL S-118.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 11
2:00-3:30 p.m. with reception to follow
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118

Workshop:
Toward an Atlas of the Disciplines

This faculty and graduate students workshop will explore ways of visually representing the relations between the disciplines - as maps, charts or diagrams. In addition to discussing examples from different times and places, we will attempt to produce, with your help, a map of the actual organization of intellectual activity today. Please come with your own ideas or sketches for the visual representation of the organization of the disciplines in the contemporary university.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Public Lecture with Reception to Follow
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, S-118

Speaker:
Richard Buchanan
Professor of Design, Schol of Design, Carnegie Mellon University
"The 21st-Century University: A Problem in Design"
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Workshop to follow the reception: 4:15-5:45 p.m.
Open to faculty and graduate students

Supplemental readings for the workshop are available on E-Reserve at the Regenstein Library Website under course title: Mellon Project 10000, or Instructor, Jim Chandler
Paper copies are available at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, JRL S-118.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, S-118

Workshop discussion with faculty on Thorstein Veblen's
The Higher Learning in America

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Public Lecture with Reception to Follow Classics 10, 1010 East 59th Street

Speaker:
Simon During
Simon During, Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University; Author of Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic (Harvard, 2002); Editor of the Cultural Studies Reader (Routledge, 1993, 1998)
"Is Cultural Studies a Discipline?"
Listen to the public Lecture (mp3)
Listen to the public Lecture (QuickTime)

Workshop to follow the reception: 4:15-5:45 p.m.
Open to faculty and graduate students

Supplemental readings for the workshop are available on E-Reserve at the Regenstein Library Website under course title: Mellon Project 10000, or Instructor, Jim Chandler
Paper copies are available at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, JRL S-118.

Workshop and Panel Discussion on "Durkheim and the Disciplines"

Panelists:
Andrew Abbott, Sociology, University of Chicago
Daniela Barberis, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago
John Kelly, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Moishe Postone, History, University of Chicago

Supplemental reading, article "Pedagogy and Sociology," is available on E-Reserve at the Regenstein Library Website under course title: Mellon Project 10000, or Instructor, Jim Chandler
Paper copies are available at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, JRL S-118.

EVENTS 2003-2004

SUMMER, 2004

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TUESDAY, JUNE 29
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, S-118

Workshop with:
Meaghan Morris
Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Cultural Studies, Coordinator for the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Program, Senior Editor of TRACES: A Multilingual Journal of Cultural Theory and Translation, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
"Truth and Beautiy in Our Times"

Workshop reading (a paper by Morris) is available in paper copies at the Franke Institute, through E-reserve at the Regenstein Library, or by downlodaing this pdf:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/institute/mellon/Morris.pdf

SPRING, 2004

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THURSDAY, APRIL 1
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Public Lecture and Discussion
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, S-118

Speaker:
Anne Norton
Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
"The School of Baghdad: Leo Strauss & American Empire"
Listen to the public Lecture (mp3)

Lunch workshop 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, S-118
Anne Norton will discuss her new book
95 Theses on Politics, Culture and Method (Yale, 2004)

Workshop reading (excerpt of Norton's new book): available in paper copies at the Franke Institute and on E-reserve at the Regenstein Library:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e-reserves/regenstein/513-5769.pdf

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FRIDAY, MAY 14
12:00-2:00 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion and Workshop
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, S-118

Max Weber's "Science as a Vocation" ("Wissenschaft als Beruf")
Roundtable discussion and workshop with
Professors Robert Buch, Eric Santner, Martin Riesebrodt and David Wellbery

Lunch will be provided
Please register by email: ejandrew@uchicago.edu, or call 702-8274
The reading is available in both English and German on E-Reserve at Regenstein Library.
Go to Reserve Catalog, search under Course Name: Mellon Project 10000;
German:http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e-reserves/regenstein/513-0278.pdf
English: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e-reserves/regenstein/460-6224.pdf

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FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MAY 21-22
"Arts of Transmission" Conference

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FRIDAY, MAY 28
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Classics 10, 1010 59th Street
Public Lecture and Discussion

Speaker:
Colin Bundy, Director and Principal, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
"universities.com"

Listen to the public Lecture (QuickTime)

FALL, 2003

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
1:30-3:30 p.m.
Public Lecture and Discussion
1025 East 58th Street, Swift Lecture Hall, 3rd floor

Speakers:
Craig Calhoun
President, Social Science Research Council
"Structural Transformation of the University"

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David Lloyd
Professor, Department of English, University of Southern California
"A Unilateral Declaration of Universality: the Culture of the Humanities"

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4:30-6:00 p.m.
Workshop
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, S-118
Workshop Readings

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Public Lecture
1010 East 59th Street, Classics 10

Speaker:
Partha Chatterjee
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
"Does India Need Social Science?"

Listen to the public Lecture (QuickTime)

Discussant, Lisa Wedeen, Assistant Professor, Political Science

Listen to the Q&A Session (QuickTime)

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Public Lecture
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, S-118

Speaker:
Hsiung Ping-Chen
Professor of Intellectual & Cultural History,
The Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
"Moving the World According to a Shifted "I":
World History Texts in Republican China and Post-war Taiwan"

SPRING, 2003

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TUESDAY, MAY 27
4:00-6:00 p.m.
reception to follow
Franke Institute for the Humanities, JRL S-118

Shiv Visvanathan
Visiting Professor, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
"Discourses of Dissent: Energy, Democracy and the Search for Alternatives"

This Seminar is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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The University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
phone: 773-702-8274
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