The Chicago Humanities Forum Presents Lisa Wedeen, “Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen” Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:15–6:00 p.m. The Gleacher Center,
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Room 621, Chicago, IL
Lisa Wedeen specializes in comparative politics, the Middle East, political theory, and feminist theory. In addition to various articles, she is the author of Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric and Symbols in Contemporary Syria. Wedeen is currently working on a book on political identity-formation in contemporary Yemen, entitled Peripheral Visions: Political Identifications in Unified Yemen.
This event is open to the public. Please RSVP by November 7, 2008 by calling (773)702-8274 or emailing franke-humanities@uchicago.edu.
Project Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question: How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?
Chicago Humanities Forum
May 7, 2008 Thomas Pavel, “Why Novels Written Long Ago Are About Us”
The introduction is given by Michael Murrin. Click here to listen to this talk.
April 9, 2008 Julie Saville, “American Slaves and Their Properties”
The introduction is given by Norma Fields. Click here to listen to this talk.
February 6, 2008 Lawrence Zbikowski, “Birds, Spinning Wheels, Horses, and Sex: Painting Images with Music” The introduction is given by Steven Rings. Click here to listen to this talk.
Big Problems Lecture
January 23, 2008 Mary Fabri, “Rape & HIV: Weapons of War, Tools of Torture” Click here to listen. Click here for more information about this lecture series and for links to student and community organizations.
“Instance the determination” An on-site installation in buildings on the main quadrangle Helen Mirra, Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard
As part of a three-year Mellon Project that concludes with the conference, “The Fate of Disciplines,” The Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago is announcing a public artwork, Instance the determination, by Helen Mirra. The artwork will be up from April 27, 2006 through June 2009.
Autumn 2008 Love's Books, Love's Looks: Textual and Visual Perspectives on the Roman de la Roseoffered by Daisy Delogu (Romance Languages & Literatures) and Aden Kumler (Art History)
Winter 2009 Composing Humans, 1760-1840offered by James Chandler (English) and Martha Feldman (Music)
Spring 2009 The Noise of the Imperial Cityoffered by Lars-Christian Koch (Cologne University, Ethnomusicology) and Philip Bohlman (Music)
Poems and Songsoffered by Travis Jackson (Music) and Robert von Hallberg (Comparative Literature)
Translating Theoryoffered by Robert Bird (Slavic Languages & Literatures) and Loren Kruger (Comparative Literature)
Recordings from "The Fate of Disciplines" are available online. Listen to audio from the event that was at once the culmination of a three-year project on "New Perspectives on the Disciplines: Comparative Studies in Higher Education" and the conference for the annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).
Speakers included: James Chandler, Don Michael Randel, Robert Post, Judith Butler, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Tom Gunning, Gertrud Koch, Yuri Tsivian, Sheldon Pollock, François Hartog, Richard Neer, Miriam Hansen, Robert Pippin, Mario Biagioli, Lorraine Daston, Adrian Johns, Amy Hollywood, Saba Mahmood, Bruce Lincoln, Rivka Feldhay, Arnold Davidson, David Wellbery, Marshall Sahlins, Marshall Sahlins, Lisa Wedeen, Helen Mirra, W.J.T. Mitchell, Bill Brown, and Laura Letinsky.
Click here to listen to these recordings and to find more information.
The Franke Institute for the Humanities | 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 | Chicago, Illinois 60637 | 773-702-8274
May 28, 2008
Recordings from "The Fate of Disciplines" are available online.