Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • Humanities Institute Fellows' Spring Public Talks

    Please join us for our UCHI Fellows’ Public Spring Talks Series starting, Thursday, January 23, 2014.  The talks are open to the public and will take place at the Humanities Institute, Austin 301 at 4:00 – 5:30 pm.  Light refreshments will be served.

     

     

    Humanities Institute Fellows’ Spring Public Talks 2014

     

     

    January 23        Robin Greeley   (Art & Art History)

    “Land, Photography and Citizenship in Postrevolutionary Rural Mexico”

     

    January 30        Gregory Kneidel (English)

    "’I Had No Suite There’: Going to Court in John Donne's Satyre 4”

     

    February 6        Peter Baldwin (History)

    “An Angel on a Freight Train: Performing Christianity in a Lustful Body, 1846-1872”

     

    February 13       Sarah Willen (Anthropology)

    “Outlaw Motherhood on a Moral Frontier: Migrant ‘Illegality’ and Gendered Vulnerability on Israel’s Margins” 

     

    February 20       Brandon Hawk (Medieval Studies)

    “Rescue from the Margins: Recontextualizing Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England”

     

    February 27       Jessica Linker (History)

    “Gender and the Practice of Blended Science in Early America”

     

    March 6            Mohammed Albakry (Visiting Faculty Fellow)

    “Maintaining sameness in difference: Challenges of translating Arabic drama for the stage”

     

    March 13           Michael Hughes (Philosophy)

    “On Tolerating Inconsistency”

     

    March 27           Robert Gross (History)

    “Conversations at the Lyceum: Emerson and His Neighbors”

     

    April 3               Nicola McDonald (Visiting Faculty Fellow)

    “Adventures in Wonderland: Thinking with Middle English Romance”    

     

    April 10           Kelly Dennis (Art & Art History)

    “Scenic Modernism: Color Photography in Arizona Highways Magazine During the Atomic Age”

     

     

    For more information, contact: Jo-Ann Waide at 486-9057