Fellows' Seminars 2009-10

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 2009-10, Fellows' Seminars are open to Cogut Center Fellows and invited guests only.

All 2009-10 Fellows' Seminars will be held in Pembroke Hall 202.

Fall 2009

Tuesday, September 22
An examination of 'The Feeling of What Happens" by Antonio Damasio and 'Philosophy as a Way of Life' by Pierre Hadot
Michael P. Steinberg
Director
Cogut Center for the Humanities

Tuesday, September 29
"The Philosopher in the House: On Characters, Bodies and Narrative in Italian Novels"
Silvia Valisa
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities
Italian Studies

Tuesday, October 6
"Scarred Landscapes: 'Renzhen' and the Anxious State in Northeast China"
Yukiko Koga
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities
East Asian Studies

Tuesday, October 13
"Patagonia and Nationalist Literatures"
Esther Whitfield
Faculty Fellow
Comparative Literature

Tuesday, October 20
"Being Spoken? On the Voice as Inner or Outer"
Denise Riley
Visiting Professor in the Humanities
Cogut Center

Tuesday, October 27
"Undead: On Vital Indices and the Uncanny Life of Media"
David Bering-Porter
Graduate Fellow
Modern Culture and Media

Tuesday, November 3
"Inventing Muzak? Satie and Furniture Music"
Hervé Vanel
Faculty Fellow
History of Art and Architecture

Tuesday, November 10
"The Will To Prosthesis: Physical Computing, Interactivity, and Music Practice"
Kevin Patton
Graduate Fellow
Music

Tuesday, November 17
"Brazilian Progress Narratives"
Sophia Beal
Graduate Fellow
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Tuesday, November 24
"Jewish News and Its Others: Anticipating Antipathetic Audiences"
Marcy Brink-Danan
Faculty Fellow
Judaic Studies/Anthropology

Tuesday, December 1
"Literary Sociability and Representation in the Seventeenth Century"
Oded Rabinovitch
Graduate Fellow
History

Tuesday, December 8
"Songs, Sadness, Subjectivity: Orphaned Children and Performances of Grief in a Botswana Village"
Bianca Dahl
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities
Anthropology/Population Studies

Spring 2010

Tuesday, February 2
"Exhibiting Istanbul: Public Life, Consumption Practices and Moving Images of the City"
Ipek Tureli, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
History of Art and Architecture

Tuesday, February 9
"Provocative Texts: Li Zhi, Montaigne, and the Promotion of Readers’ Discernment in the Sixteenth Century"
Rivi Handler-Spitz
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities
Classics

Tuesday, February 16
"Ethics and the Subject of Representation: Some Thoughts on Contemporary Realism"
Ipek Celik
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities
Comparative Literature

Tuesday, March 2
"Genocide in a Multiethnic Town: Event, Origins, Aftermath"
Omer Bartov
Faculty Fellow
History

Tuesday, March 9
"Air Crises: Monitoring Safety and Disaster"
Stephen Groening
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Modern Culture and Media

Tuesday, March 16
"Racial Representation and Identification in Genomics"
Rina Bliss
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Africana Studies

Tuesday, March 23
"Afro-Cuba and Empire"
Adrián López Denis
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Hispanic Studies

Tuesday, April 6
"Radical Humanism and the Rethinking of the Human"
Barrymore A. Bogues
Faculty Fellow
Africana Studies

Tuesday, April 13
"Sapphic Fathers"
Gretchen Schultz
Faculty Fellow
French Studies

Tuesday, April 20
"Sonic Navigation and Electric Songlines"
Betsey Biggs
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities
Music/MEME

Tuesday, April 27
"Luck Be a Lady Tonight: Iran and the Cultural Front of the Cold War"
Shiva Balaghi
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities
Cogut Center for the Humanities

Tuesday, May 4
"Experimental Animals"
Thalia Field
Faculty Fellow
English/Literary Arts Program