Category: Research

Roger Bechtel (Theater) will work with Shavera Seneviratne ’13 pursuing research for his new book, which examines the emerging aesthetic(s) of contemporary avant-garde theater performance in America. They will be…

Wednesday, February 16, 4:00 p.m. in Gould Library Athenaeum

The Philosophy of Place

Beth McKinsey, English and American Studies; “Zanita: Women and the Wild in 19th Century Yosemite” and Adriana Estill, English and American Studies: “Not Black, Not Quite White: Making a Place for Hispanic Beauty in the 19th Century“

Thursday, January 6: 11:45 a.m. in the Alumni Guest House Meeting Room

George Shuffelton: Father Chaucer, Pornographic Chaucer

Discussant: Carol Donelan, Cinema and Media Studies.  Though Chaucer has never been granted a particularly central place in the American pantheon of cultural forebears, his writing has served judges, film makers, and critics as a boundary marker for definitions of obscenity and pornography.  Among other evidence, this talk reviews Federal legal cases involving George Carlin’s comedy routines, Florida textbooks, 1970s “soft-core” pornography, public funding of controversial performance art, and a highly publicized 2004 sexual assault as signs that Chaucer’s work remains vitally involved in American ideas of obscenity. With discussant Carol Donelan, Cinema and Media Studies.

Tuesday, October 5, 11:45 am, Alumni Guest House Meeting Room, Dialogos I: Faculty Research Exchange, Panoramic Images & Panoramic Consciousness, John Schott (Cinema and Media Studies), Discussant: Elizabeth McKinsey (English and American Studies). Thanks to digital photography, panoramic photographs have become popular in the last decade. This talk explores the [remarkably radical] esthetics of the panorama as an image form, and traces its history back to the late 18th century. It argues that “panoramic consciousness”—the aspiration to immerse oneself in an image—may be one of the central driving forces in the evolution of visual media. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Learning and Teaching Center

Thursday, November 4, 4:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Dialogos II: Faculty Research Exchange, Exhibition as (no) place, Dana Strand, (French and Francophone Studies) Tarzan’s (Post)colonial Misadventures at the Quai Branly; David Lefkowitz (Art and Art History,} Other Positioning Systems.  Sponsored by the Humanities Center

“The Ideas of Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom: Self-Government and Complexity of the Commons”

The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2009), Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is also Co-Director, along with her husband, Vincent Ostrom, of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.  Barbara Allen and Tun Myint, both of whom did their graduate degrees at Indiana, and will elucidate the work of these celebrated scholars. Sponsored by the Humanities Center

Join us for lunch to hear a brief lecture by Humberto Huergo (Spanish), “Photographic Theory in 1920s Madrid,” with comments by John Schott (Media Studies) and open discussion.. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Learning and Teaching Center.

“Rembrandt’s Male Nudes”

 Alison Kettering, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Art History, will present her work on Rembrandt’s Male Nudes, which have been rarely studies (and she has theories about why this is the case!).

Commentors: Carol Donelan, Associate Professor Cinema and Media Studies and Seth Greenberg, Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology

Co-Sponsored with the LTC

Alumni Guest House Meeting Room, noon – 1:15 p.m.

Join us for presentations by faculty colleagues, lunch, and discussion

Tragedy and Contending Truths

Wednesday, February 17 – 4:30 p.m., Gould Library Athenaeum

Angela Curran, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, “Aristotle on Tragic Truth and the Emotions”

Clara Hardy, Professor of Classical Languages, “Tragic Rhetoric: Contending Truths in Euripides’ Trojan Women,”

Moderator: Timothy Raylor, Professor of English