Forum for Research on Law, Politics, and the Humanities
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, lower level Stevenson Hall, 701 South Morgan.
Sessions for 2007-2008:
I. Thursday, October 4, 2007
Book Discussion : Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity,
by Talal Asad (Stanford University Press, 2003)
Text will be available at the UIC Bookstore, lower level
II. Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Corey Capers, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Workshop: "Black Voices/White Print: Towards a Genealogy of U.S. Public Blackness, 1764 - 1834."
Paper to be distributed in advance. Contact huminst@uic.edu
III. Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University
Public Lecture: "Due Process and Lethal Confinement."
IV. Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Sophia Mihic , Department of Political Science and Philosophy, Northeastern Illinois University
Workshop: "Interpretation, Political Theory and the Hegemony of Normative Theorizing"
Paper to be distributed in advance. Contact huminst@uic.edu
