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- Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
- The Chicago Humanities Forum
Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Fall 2009
 Noa Steimatsky
on the face of film
Introduction by Miriam Hansen.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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 Michéle Lowrie
on security
Introduction by Shadi Bartsch.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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 Melvin Butler
on Haitian Pentecostals and popular music
Introduction by Philip Bohlman.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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 Ilsa Flanagan
on sustainability
Introduction by Thomas Christensen.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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 Rocco Rubini
on Renaissance Humanism and Italian Existentialism
Introduction by Arnold Davidson.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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 Chelsea Foxwell
on late nineteenth-century Japanese art
Introduction by Michael Bourdaghs.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Spring 2009
 Na'ama Rokem
on bilingual poetry
Introduction by Tahera Qutbuddin.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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 Chad Kainz
on ProjectBamboo
Introduction by James Chandler.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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 James Sparrow
on Legitimacy and the American Leviathan
Introduction by Jane Dailey.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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 Lars-Christian Koch
on Carl Stumpf and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel
Introduction by Phil Bohlman.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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 Miriam Hansen
on cinema studies after cinema?
Introduction by Yuri Tsivian.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Winter 2009
 Susanne Lüdemann
on literary case studies
Introduction by Eric Santner.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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 Alfredo Cesar Melo
on hybridities
Introduction by Dain Borges.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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 Karlos Arregi
on the structure of words: Basque and beyond
Introduction by Jason Merchant.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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Ralph Ubl
on Eugène Delacroix
Introduction by Martha Ward.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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Michael Geyer, Susan Gzesh
on the human rights program
Introduction by James Chandler.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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 Heather Keenleyside
on animals and other people
Introduction by Robin Valenza.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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 Christopher Wild
on conversion and evidence in philosophy and religion
Introduction by David Wellbery.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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 Glenn Most
on childhood trauma and adult personality
Introduction by Arnold Davidson.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Fall 2008
 Catherine Sullivan
on her recent projects
in film and theatre
Introduction by Matthew Jackson.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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 Kaley Mason
on Marx and musicians
in South India
Introduction by Travis Jackson.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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 Sarah Nooter
on the powers of
ancient Greek poetry
Introduction by Mark Payne.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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 Jennifer Wild
on the cinematic impression
Introduction by Tom Gunning.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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 Timothy Campbell
on fashion and history
Introduction by Elaine Hadley.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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 David Schutter
on John Constable's clouds
Introduction by Matthew Jesse Jackson.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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 Mark Hansen
on the context of presidential elections
Introduction by Gerald Rosenberg.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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 Philip Gossett
on Verdi's correspondence with his librettists about King Lear
Introduction by David Bevington.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Spring 2008
Jacob Eyferth
on artisanal epistemologies in China
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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 Jason Salavon
on recent projects
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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 James Chandler, Richard Neer, Bill Brown, Larry Norman and Theaster Gates
on the arts and disciplines working group
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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 Alain Bresson
on economy of the ancient world, economy of the new world
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Introduction by Clifford Ando.
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 Funmi Olopade
on tracing the breast cancer susceptibility gene
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Introduction by James Chandler.
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 Paola Iovene
on world literature in socialist China
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Introduction by Judith Zeitlin.
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 Aden Kumler
on the morphology of the medieval eucharist
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Introduction by Rebecca Zorach.
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 David Nirenberg
on the jewish question: from ancient Egypt to the present
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Introduction by Leora Auslander.
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Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Winter 2008
 Lenore Grenoble
on language endangerment and loss
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Introduction by Victor Friedman.
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 Michael Bourdaghs
on a science of literature
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Introduction by Yyeong-Hee Choi
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 Christine Mehring
on tv art's abstract starts, ca. 1944-1968
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Introduction by Martha Ward
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Nadine Moeller
on recent excavations at Tell Edfu, Egypt
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Introduction by Peter Dorman
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 Stephen Raudenbush
on urban education
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Introduction by James Chandler
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 Anton Ford
on the parts and whole of Plato's republic
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Introduction by James
Conant
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 Leela Gandhi
on non-violence and anticolonial metaphysics
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Introduction by Dipesh Chakrabarty
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Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Fall 2007
 Verity Platt
on images and epiphanies in Ancient Greece
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Introduction by Richard Neer
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 Gary Tubb
on texts and tactics
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Introduction by Wendy Doniger
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 Rebecca Hasselbach
on semitics and language typology
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Introduction by Theo van den Hout
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 Paul Copp
on incantations and efficacy in Tang China
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Introduction by Don Harper
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 Randall Landsberg
on cosmological outreach
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Introduction by Michael Turner
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 Tania Bruguera
on her recent art projects
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Introduction by W.J.T. Mitchell
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 James Chandler
on our new Center for Disciplinary Innovation
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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 Françoise Meltzer
on putting words to music: a problem of nationalism
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Introduction by Arnold Davidson
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Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
Spring 2007
 Miguel Tamen
in defense of Louis XVI
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Introductions by Mai Vukcevich
and Thomas Pavel
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 William Wimsatt
on re-engineering philosophy for limited beings
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Robert Richards
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 Theodore L. Steck
on saving the environment
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Dave Aftandilian
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 Ian Hacking
on what has happened to autism
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Jonathan Lear
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 Robert von Hallberg
on sob-ballads
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Mark Payne
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 Barbara Maria Stafford
on the ecapsulation of thought
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Wadad Kadi
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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Spring 2009
 Jonathan Hall
The Tyranny of the Athenian Democracy
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
The introduction is given by James Redfield.
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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Winter 2009
 Candace Vogler
Ethical Challenges
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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 Thomas Christensen
Bach: Musician, Mathematician, Metaphysician
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Fall 2008
 Lisa Wedeen
Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The introduction is given by Michael Dawson.
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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Spring 2008
 Thomas Pavel
Why Novels Written Long Ago Are About Us
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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 Julie Saville
American Slaves and Their Properties
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Winter 2008
 Robert J. Richards
Darwin's Natural Theology
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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 Lawrence Zbikowski
Birds, Spinning Wheels, Horses, and Sex: Painting Images with Music
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Introduction by Steven Rings
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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Fall 2007
 Wu Hung
What is 'Contemporary Chinese Art?'
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Introduction by James Chandler
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 Jacqueline Goldsby
Abstract Is As Abstract Does: African American Poetry and Painting during the 1940's and 1950's
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Introduction by James Chandler
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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Spring 2007
 Michael Sells
'Translation of Desires:': The Love Poetry of Sufi Master Ibn al-'Arabi (d. 638/1240)
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Introduction by Françoise Meltzer
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 James K. Chandler
Sterne's Sentimental Journey: How Humanities Scholarship Matters
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Introductions by Françoise Meltzer
and Bill Brown
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