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 2008-2009:
I. Thursday, October 16, 2008
Book Discussion : Democracy Past and Future, by Pierre Rosanvallon (Columbia University Press, 2007)
Text is available at the UIC Bookstore, lower level
II. Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Bradley Greenburg , Department of English, Northeastern Illinois University
Work in Progress: "Virtue Reconciled to Pleasure: Historical Principles and Reformation Historiography in Shakespeare’s Rewriting of Foxe"
Paper to be distributed in advance. Contact huminst@uic.edu
III. Monday, February 23, 2009
Saba Mahmood, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Public Lecture: "Freedom of Expression and Moral Injury: Thinking Through the Danish Cartoon Controversy"
IV. Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Amalia Pallares, , Departments of Latin American and Latino Studies and Political Science, UIC
Work in Progress: Impossible Activism: Representations of the Family in the Immigrant Rights Movement
Paper to be distributed in advance. Contact huminst@uic.edu
