New Visions: Emerging Research in the Humanities A Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Student Conference
February 13-14, 1998
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13, 1998
9:00 am Welcoming Remarks
Eric Gislason, Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Mary Beth Rose, Director, Institute for the Humanities
Linda Vavra, Chair, Conference Steering Committee
9:15-10:45 American Group Identities in the Early 1900s
Moderator: Professor Margaret Strobel, Women's Studies Program
Stephen A. Brown, History Department, UIC
“To Be or Not to Be in Control: The Leo Frank Case, Mob Rule, and the Importance of Self-Control to the Southern Middle Class”
John F. Lyons, History Department, UIC
“Chicago Teachers and Their Unions During the Great Depression”
Laurent Pernot, History Department, UIC
“ ‘Compelled to Struggle’: The Socialist Party in Chicago, 1900-1920”
11:00-12:30 Political and Epistemological Positionings
Moderator: Professor Charles Mills, Philosophy Department
Christopher John Young, History Department, UIC
“The Rumblings of a Political Culture in Transition: Federalist Attitudes Towards the Massachusetts Constitutional Society, 1793-1796”
Nicole M. Penne, Political Science Department, UIC
“Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland: Application or Subversion of J.S. Mill’s Liberal Principles?”
Paul A. Gregory, Philosophy Department, UIC
“What’s So Funny About Natural Epistemology?”
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 Modern Migrations
Moderator: Professor Mary Kay Vaughan, History Department, Latin American Studies Program
Jason Carl Digman, History Department, UIC
“ ‘The Negroes Are Getting Out By The Carload’: African American Migration, 1880-1910”
David Akbar Gilliam, Department of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, UIC
“Mapping Afro-Hispanic Discourse: The Question of Color in Puerto Rico”
Nora Bonnin, History Department, UIC
“AIDS and Migrants from Western Mexico”
4:00 Keynote Address
GEORGE CHAUNCEY
Department of History, University of Chicago
“The Strange Career of the Closet: Gay Culture, Consciousness, and Politics from the Second World War to the Stonewall Era”
6:00 Buffet Dinner
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1998
9:15-10:45 Women and Representation in Late 19th and 20th Century America
Moderator: Professor Robin Grey, English Department
Theresa de Langis, English Department, UIC
“ ‘Our First Neighbor, our Mother’: The Influence of the Mother on the Poetic Practice of Emily Dickinson”
Patti Renda, English Department, UIC
“Antidotes/Anecdotes for Alienation: Revisions of the Self in Margaret Fuller’s Literary Sketches”
Linda Horwitz, Communications Department, Northwestern
“Lucy Parsons: Silenced but Not Silent”,
11:00-12:30 Varieties of Cultural Control
Moderator: Professor David Sokol, Art History Department
Michael Golec, Art History Department, Northwestern
“Aesthetics and Ideology: ‘The Judgment of Paris’ and National Socialism”
Analisa Leppanen, Art History Department, UIC
“The Vampire as Apparatus of Sexuality: A Foucauldian Reading”
Thomas Jackman, Art History Department, UIC
“Water Themes in Khmer Art, Ideology and State”
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:45 Domains of Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Moderator: Professor Mary Beth Rose, Institute for the Humanities and English Department
Pearl Ratunil, English Department, UIC
“The Social Structure of Honor in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”
Jose Gabriel Brauchy, Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, UIC
“The Ironic Legitimizing of Witchcraft in Fernando do Rojas’ Celestina”
Regina M. Buccola, English Department, UIC
“Transmuting ‘A Golden Tongue’ into a ‘Willing’ One: Publicizing The Sexual Polity of Isabel in Christopher Marlowe’s and Elizabeth Cary’s Versions of Edward II”
Elizabeth Charlebois, English Department, Northwestern
“Science, Sex, and the Sacred: Jealousy and Epistemology in The Changeling”
4:15 Keynote Address
LEONARD BARKAN
Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities
Professor of English and Fine Arts
Director, New York Institute for the Humanities
New York University
“Mute Poetry Speaking Pictures”
5:30 Closing Reception
Conference Steering Committee
Frances Botkin, Graduate Student, Department of English
Juan Gamiño, Graduate Student, Department of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese
Gwen McNamee, Graduate Student, Department of History
Matthew Moore, Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy
Elizabeth Olton, Graduate Student, Department of Art History
Linda Vavra, Graduate Student, Department of English and Assistant Director, Institute for the Humanities
