Fellows' Seminars 2011-12

Cogut Center Fellows meet on a regular basis to discuss their works-in-progress. Pre-circulated papers are distributed a week ahead of time and then discussed at the seminar.

In 2011-12, Fellows' Seminars, open to Cogut Center Fellows and invited guests only, are held in Pembroke Hall 202.

Spring 2012

Tuesday, January 31
"Excerpts from Contemporary Arab Thought"
Elizabeth Kassab
Visiting Professor in the Humanities
Cogut Center for the Humanities

Tuesday, February 7
"Generic Failure: On DV and T'ongil (Reunification) Documentary"
Michelle Cho
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities
East Asian Studies/Modern Culture and Media

Tuesday, February 14
"Terroir-izing History"
Kevin Goldberg
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities
German Studies

Tuesday, February 28
"Difficulties in Sharing Medical Knowledge: Chinese Medicine in Early Modern Europe"
Harold Cook
Faculty Fellow
History

Tuesday, March 6
"Animal Alibi : Chevillard, Poe, etc."
Thangam Ravindranathan
Faculty Fellow
French Studies

Tuesday, March 13
"Beyond Comparative Religious Ethics"
Thomas Lewis
Faculty Fellow
Religious Studies

Tuesday, April 3
"Necessity and Greed: Unlocking the Spirit of the Hispanic Slave"
Felipe Gaitan-Ammann
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities
Anthropology/Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Tuesday, April 10
"Thinking with the South"
Madhumita Lahiri
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
English

Tuesday, April 17
"'Following the Thing' in the Land of the Magic Mushroom: Text, Talk, and the Politics of Ethnic Authorship"
Paja Faudree
Faculty Fellow
Anthropology

Tuesday, April 24
Title: TBD
Nathaniel Berman
Faculty Fellow
Cogut Center for the Humanities

Tuesday, May 1
"A Tragedy of Post-colonial Enlightenment? Some Caribbean and Arab Thoughts"
Elizabeth Kassab
Visiting Professor in the Humanities
Cogut Center for the Humanities

Tuesday, May 8
Undergraduate Symposium
Elizabeth Caldwell, Gabriella Ferrari, Juan Ruiz, Sabrina Skau
Undergraduate Fellows
Cogut Center for the Humanities