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THIS WEEK IN THE
HUMANITIES
Lecture: "Conscientious Objection and Professional Obligation: From Military Chaplains to Modern Medicine"
Ronit Y. Stahl (University of Pennsylvania, Medical Ethics & Health Policy)
Monday, October 16, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
501 Cathedral of Learning
Ronit Y. Stahl earned her PhD in history at the University of Michigan in 2014. Prior to coming to Penn, she held a postdoctoral research position at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. Her first book, Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America (Harvard University Press) was just published. Her research examines religion and the regulatory state, and at Penn she will be focusing on the role of religion in health-related public policy, including conscientious objection in healthcare and negotiating religious pluralism in healthcare settings. Prior to beginning her PhD studies, she received an M.A. in Social Sciences in Education from Stanford University and a B.A. in English from Williams College.
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Colloquium: "A Short History of Perversion"
Humanities Center Visiting Fellow: Gayle Rubin (University of Michigan, Anthropology)
Monday, October 16, 2017
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning
With responses from Rostom Mesli (Dietrich School Postdoctoral Fellow) and Lisa Brush (Sociology).
Reading available here.
Lecture: "Gay Sex and the post-Industrial City: Leathermen and San Francisco's South of Market"
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
5:00 - 7:00 PM
University Ball Room B
Gayle Rubin received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has been teaching there since 2003. She is the author of a series of groundbreaking articles on the politics of sex and gender (collected in Deviations, 2012) and an anthropological study of gay leathermen in San Francisco (entitled Valley of the Kings, forthcoming). Her teaching includes classes on “Sex Panics,” “Sex and the City,” and graduate seminars such as “Sexological Theories: From Krafft-Ebbing to Foucault” and “The Feminist Sex Wars.”
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Colloquium: "Copyright as Culture: Ethnography of the Law, the Global, and Turkey’s Music Industry"
David Fossum (Dietrich School Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow)
With responses from Michael J. Madison (School of Law) and Adriana Helbig (Music)
Thursday, October 19, 2017
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning
Reading available here.
David Fossum has a a Ph.D in Ethnomusicology from Brown University, an M.A. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, and a B.A. in English/Comparative Literature from George Mason University. His dissertation, titled “A Cult of Anonymity in the Age of Copyright: Authorship, Ownership, and Cultural Policy in Turkey’s Music Industry,” examines how actors in Turkey challenge, exploit, and seek to implement the country’s developing intellectual property regime. It further explores the awkward fit between the IP regime and an older regime of cultural policy in the country, institutional folklore, showing how the frictions between IP law and institutional folklore have led actors both to challenge ideologies of folklore and to seek to tailor Turkish IP law to better fit it, thus illustrating how local institutions and values inflect the process of instantiating global forms such as IP law.
His M.A. thesis draws on music analysis and ethnographic data to study innovation and transmission among musicians of the Ahal School of instrumental Turkmen dutar performance, to which he was introduced while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkmenistan.
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VISITING FELLOWS
Humanities Center Visiting Fellow: Tommie Shelby
Tommie Shelby is the Caldwell Titcomb Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, where he has taught since 2000. He's the author of Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016), which won the 2016 Book Award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy. He is also the author of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005).
WORKSHOP: “Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform"
October 26 - 27, 2017
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning
Poster available here.
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Humanities Center Visiting Fellow: Benjamin Kahan
Benjamin Kahan is an Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Washington University in St. Louis, Emory University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Sydney. During 2016-2017, he was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. He is the author of Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life (Duke, 2013) and the editor of Heinrich Kaan’s “Psychopathia Sexualis” (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality (Cornell, 2016). His second book project is entitled Sexual Etiologies and the Great Paradigm Shift.
COLLOQUIUM: “After Sedgwick: The Gordian Knot of the Great Paradigm Shift”
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning
With responses by Randall Halle (German) and Julian Gill-Peterson (English)
LECTURE: "Sex in the Age of Fordism: The Standardization of Sexual Objects"
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
2:30 - 4:00 PM
Scaife Hall, Auditorium 5
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Humanities Center Visiting Fellow: Aamir Mufti
Aamir Mufti is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Aamir Mufti is interested in understanding a range of forms of inequality in the contemporary world and how they impede the possibilities for historically autonomous action by social collectivities in the South. His work also explores the possibilities of critical knowledge of these societies within the dominant practices of the modern humanistic disciplines. Mufti has a Ph.D. in literature from Columbia University and was trained in Anthropology at Columbia, the London School of Economics, and Hamilton College. His publications include the books Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures (2016, Harvard University Press) and Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture (2007, Princeton University
Press).
COLLOQUIUM: “The Missing Homeland of Edward Said”
Thursday, November 2, 2017
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning
With responses from Paul Bové (English) and Christopher Fynsk (European Graduate School)
LECTURE: "Strangers in Europa: Migrants, Terrorists, Refugees"
Thursday, November 2, 2017
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning
WORKSHOP: Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures
Monday, November 6, 2017
5:30 - 7:00 PM
501 Cathedral of Learning
With responses from John B. Lyon (German) and Giuseppina Mecchia (French & Italian)
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
World History Center Open House
Monday, October 16, 2017 at 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
3900 Posvar Hall
Leadership and staff will be on hand to re-introduce the space after a recent remodel and to answer any questions attendees may have about the Center and their mission.
Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served.
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World History Center Graduate Student Assistantship
The World History Center is pleased to announce the launch of a Graduate Student Assistantship in Public History for the Spring 2018 semester. Please see the full call for applications here. We encourage submissions from any graduate students who wish to communicate global or transregional historical research to a non-academic audience. The due date for applications is November 1.
Please contact whc@pitt.edu if you have any questions.
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THIS SEMESTER IN THE
HUMANITIES CENTER
Lecture: "Wild Things: Notes on Queer Anarchy"
October 26, 2017, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Jack Halberstam (USC)
Meeting: The Kristeva Circle 2017
All Day, October 27 & 28
Keynote Lecture: "Zombie Abjection" Jack Halberstam (USC)
Friday, October 27, 1:00 - 1:45 pm
Q&A Session: Julia Kristeva (Université Paris Diderot, Emerita) Saturday, October 28, 12:00 - 12:45 pm
Keynote Lecture: "Time and Crisis: Questions for Psychoanalysis and Race" Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt University, English) Saturday, October 28, 6:00 - 6:45 PM
Lecture: "Approaching Death: Philosophical and Cinematic Perspectives"
October 30, 2017, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Lucy Fischer (Film Studies)
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. It will be rescheduled for the spring semester.
Lecture: "Maurice Blanchot's Political 'Conversion': Toward a Politics Without Ressentiment"
November 13, 2017, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Christopher Fynsk (European Graduate School)
Public Reading and Interview: "John Edgar Wideman in Conversation"
November 14, 2017, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
With questions from Dan Kubis (Humanities Center) for John Edgar Wideman, author of the Homewood trilogy (Brown University, Emeritus)
Register for this event here.
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