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THIS WEEK IN THE HUMANITIES
Colloquium: "Indigeneity, More-than-Human Accountability, and the Futures of Our Planet"
Noah Theriault
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning
Noah Theriault is a sociocultural anthropologist and political ecologist at Carnegie Mellon University. He teaches courses and mentors student research on Global Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, Southeast Asia, Indigenous Rights, Social Movements, and related topics. His research focuses on how different cosmologies, world-making practices, and visions of justice encounter and transform one another in the context of environmental interventions. In 2016, he became a founding member of the Creatures Collective, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, artists, and activists “who are working together and as part of broader collectives, families and relations to contest dominant narratives of the global extinction crisis.”
Reading available here.
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Colloquium: "Genies, Islamic Law, and Wine-Soaked Romance: Culture and Contradiction in Pre-Colonial Central Asia"
James Pickett
Thursday, October 12, 2017
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning
James Pickett is an assistant professor of Eurasian history at the University of Pittsburgh. His first book project explores transregional networks of Turko-Persian exchange among elite families of religious scholars and their military patrons in eighteenth and nineteenth century Bukhara. Related articles also trace the cultural memory of this era as a subsequent influence on Soviet propaganda in Iran and language ideology in Central Eurasia. His next research project exploits chancellery archives to compare Bukhara's transformation into a Russian protectorate with the political economy of Muslim princely states in British India. James received his PhD in history from Princeton University.
Reading available here.
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Visiting Fellows
Humanities Center Visiting Fellow: Gayle Rubin
Gayle Rubin received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan 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.”
COLLOQUIUM: "A Short History of Perversion"
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
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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
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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
Free Screening of Khoon Diy Baarav with Filmmaker Present
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:30 PM
407 Cathedral of Learning
Khoon Diy Baarav (Blood leaves its trail) enters the vexed political scenario in Kashmir through the lives of families of the victims of enforced disappearances. The film is a non-sequential account of personal narratives and reminiscences ruptured by violence, undermind by erasure, and over-ridden by official documents that challenge truth.
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Rodrigo Toscano: Poetry Reading
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 6.30 PM
501 Cathedral of Learning
Rodrigo Toscano wil read from his recent book Explosion Rocks Springfield. After the reading, there will be a short Q&A and a book signing. Toscano’s previous books include Deck of Deeds, Collapsible Poetics Theater (a National Poetry Series selection), To Leveling Swerve, Platform, Partisans, and The Disparities. He works for the Labor Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers, the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, Communication Workers of America, and National Day Laborers Organizing Network.
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THIS SEMESTER IN THE
HUMANITIES CENTER
Lecture: "Conscientious Objection and Professional Obligation: From Military Chaplains to Modern Medicine"
October 16, 2017, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Ronit Y. Stahl (University of Pennsylvania, Medical Ethics & Health Policy)
Colloquium: "Copyright Administration as a Cultural Practice"
October 19, 2017, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
David C. Fossum (Dietrich School Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow) with responses from Michael J. Madison (School of Law) and Adriana Helbig (Music)
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)
Lecture: "Maurice Blanchot's Political 'Conversion': Toward a Politics Without Ressentiment"
November 13, 2017, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Christopher Fynsk (European Graduate School)
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