Forum for Research on Law, Politics, and the Humanities
Book Discussion, Thursday, September 29, 2005
Tim Holbrook, Chicago-Kent College of Law, November 16, 2005
David Theo Goldberg, University of California Humanities Research Institute, March 7, 2006
Mark Canuel, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 17, 2006
Organized by Mark Canuel, English Department, and Stephen Engelmann, Political Science Department.
Research in a range of disciplines has focused on institutional formations, legal structures, political rhetorics and social identities. This forum seeks to bring together scholars who approach these issues from a variety of perspectives. The four meetings each year will be a mix of invited speakers, sessions focusing on UIC faculty work-in-progress, and discussions of agreed-upon texts.
All interested faculty and graduate students are welcome. Advance registration is encouraged.To register, please contact huminst@uic.edu, 312/996-6354.
Meetings take place from 3:00-5:00 at the Institute for the Humanities.
Sessions for 2005-2006:
I. Thursday, September 29, 2005
Book Discussion: "Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity", by Timothy Mitchell
II. Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Timothy Holbrook, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Workshop:" Curing Heterosexuality: Moral Signals and the Potential for Expressive Harms in Patent Law "
Paper to be distributed in advance. Contact huminst@uic.edu
III. Tuesday, March 7, 2006
David Theo Goldberg, Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute
Public Lecture: "On Racial Europeanization"
IV. Monday, April 17, 2006
Mark Canuel, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Workshop:" The Two Abolitions "
Paper to be distributed in advance. Contact huminst@uic.edu
