For Faculty: Past Seminars
2011-12
Changing Technologies of Power in the Entrepreneurial Age, Jesse Weaver Shipley, Anthropology (Leader)
Jesse Weaver Shipley, Anthropology (Leader)
Craig Borowiak, Political Science
Andrew Friedman, History
Maris Gillette, Anthropology
Laurie Hart, Anthropology
Zainab Saleh, Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities' 2011-13 Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
Gustavus Stadler, English
William Williams, Fine Arts
2010-11
"Sex, State, and Society in the Early Modern World"
Lisa Jane Graham, History (Leader)
Israel Burshatin, Comparative Literature and Spanish
Jerry Miller, Philosophy
Bethel Saler, History
Gustavus Stadler, English
Hurford Humanities Center's 2010-12 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Farid Azfar
Cristina Beltrán, Political Science
2009-10
"Material Identity"
Darin Hayton, History
Hank Glassman, East Asian Studies
Jesse Shipley, Anthropology
Ken Koltun-Fromm, Religion (Leader)
Laura McGrane, English
Ruti Talmor, Anthropology (Mellon Fellow)
Travis Zadeh, Religion
2008-09
"Seminar in Visual and Textual Technologies: The Illustrated Book"
Maud McInerney, English (Co-Leader)
Stephen Finley, English (Co-Leader)
David Dawson, Religion
Hee Sook Kim, Fine Arts
Rachel Oberter, History of Art (Mellon Fellow)
Deborah Roberts, Classics and Comparative Literature
Theresa Tensuan, English and Gender & Sexuality Studies
2007-08
"Photography, Modernism, and Post-Modernism," an exploration of film and photography in relation to the historical disciplines and other fields
James Krippner, History (Leader)
Kim Benston, English
Laurie Hart, Anthropology
Graciela Michelotti, Spanish
John Muse, Fine Arts and Philosophy (Mellon Fellow)
Debora Sherman, English
Gus Stadler, English
Christina Zwarg, English
Visit the "Framing Photographs: Contexts and Transpositions" archive in the Virtual Museum.
2006-07
Why We Do Where We Do: Modern Divisions of Science and Literature
David Sedley, French (Leader)
Darin Hayton, History
Danielle Macbeth, Philosophy
Rob Manning, Mathematics
Laura McGrane, English
Michael Booth, English & Comparative Literature (Mellon Fellow)
2005-06
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Representations of Political Violence and Terrorism
Raji Mohan, English (Leader)
Koffi Anyinefa, French
Cristina Beltran, Political Science
Kim Benston, English
Roberto Castillo-Sandoval, Spanish
Kaye Edwards, General Programs, Director of Center for Peace & Global Citizenship
Zolani Ngwane, Anthropology
Jill Stauffer, Philosophy (Mellon Fellow)
2004-05
Music - Text - Performance
Israel Burshatin, Spanish (Co-Leader)
Ulrich Schönherr, German (Co-Leader)
Steve Finley, English
Richard Freedman, Music
Shizhe Huang, Chinese and Linguistics
Paul Jefferson, History
Raji Mohan, English
Marianne Tettlebaum, Comparative Literature and Music (Mellon Fellow)
Kathleen Wright, Philosophy
2003-04
Translation and Other Transformations
Deborah Roberts, Classics and Comparative Literature (Seminar Leader)
Hank Glassman, East Asian Studies
Duane Kight, Frnech
Laura McGrane, English
Maud McInerny, English
Graciela Michelotti, Spanish
Paul Smith, History
Yiman Wang, Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies (Mellon Fellow)
2002-03
Culture, Value, Cultural Value
Gus Stadler, English (Seminar Leader)
Vernon Dixon, Economics
Ken Koltun-Fromm, Religion
Jim Krippner-Martinez, History
Jennifer Patico, Anthropology (Mellon Fellow)
Jim Ransom, English
Tina Zwarg, English
2001-02
Cultures of Exile—Memory, Art, and Ideology in Moder[ist] Diasporas
Paul Jefferson, History; Koffi Anyinefa French (Seminar Co-Leaders)
Cristina Beltran, Political Science
Laurie Hart, Anthropology
Tracey Hucks, Religion
Alexander Kitroeff, History
Anita Isaacs, Political Science
Bethel Saler, History
1999-00
Performance
Kim Benston, English (Seminar Leader)
Koffi Anyinefa, French
Israel Burshatin, Spanish
Aryeh Kosman, Philosophy
Rebekah Kowal, English (Mellon Fellow)
Deborah Roberts, Classics & Comparative Literature
Ulrich Schönherr, German
1998-99
Displacement, Memory, and Cultural Consciousness
Kim Benston, English (Seminar Leader)
David Dawson, Religion
Doug Davis, Psychology
Steve Finley, English
Maris Gillette, Anthropology
Paul Jefferson, History
Michael Sells, Religion
Debora Sherman, English
Kathleen Wright, Philosophy
Tina Zwarg, English
1997-98
The Narrative Turn
Kim Benston, English (Seminar Leader)
Richard Freedman, Music
Ashok Gangadean, Philosophy
Laurie Hart, Anthropology
James Krippner, History
Anne McGuire, Religion
James Ransom, English
Sara Shumer, Political Science