Covering New Ground: Explorations in Humanities Research
January 28-29, 1999
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1999
9:00 am Welcoming Remarks
9:15-10:45 The Textual Construction of Foreignness
Moderator: Professor Nancy Cirillo, English Department
Lisa Anne Cochran, English Department, UIC
“The Adulteress as Foreign Contamination or Domestic Decay?: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Pink and White Tyranny and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who Would Have Thought It?”
Jennifer Cohen, English Department, UIC
“Remembering, Retelling and Reenacting History: The Power of Black Women Artists' Creative Agency in Gayl Jones' Corregidora”
Joe Alter, English Department, UIC
“American Archipelago: The New Negro and Native Lands”
11:00-12:30 Visual Pleasures
Moderator: Professor Robert Munman, Art History Department
David J. Getsy, Art History Department, Northwestern University
“Rodin's Re-gendering of Michelangelo: Recognition and Elison in the Medici Tomb Drawings”
Wendy Bellion, Art History Department, Northwestern University
“ The Promethean Modeller': Gender and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Waxworks”
Colleen Thorne, Art History Department, UIC
“DuChamp's Avant-Garde”
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 Mediocrity and Marginal Rhetorics
Moderator: Professor James J. Sosnoski, English Department
Elli Abraham Shellist, English Department, UIC
“The (Merely) Mediocre More: A Look at John More's Undeserved Reputation”
Julie A. Bokser, English Department, UIC
“American Rhetorical Curriculum: The Pedagogies of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz”
David Cahill, English Department, UIC
“Contrastive Rhetoric, Orientalism, and the Chinese Second-Language Writer”
4:00 Keynote Address
STANLEY FISH
Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
“How Milton Works”
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1999
9:15-10:45 Politics and Nationalism
Moderator: Professor James Searing, History Department
Cheryl Ganz, History Department, UIC
“The Graf Zeppelin Flight to A Century of Progress”
Marek Suszko, History Department, UIC
“The Formation of a Polish Socialist Nation Under Stalinism, 1945-1956: The Zielona Gora Region: A Case Study”
John Glover, History Department, UIC
“ The Mosque is One Thing, The Administration is Another': Politics and Islam in Colonial Senegal”
11:00-12:30 Discourses of Empirical Knowledge
Moderator: Professor Timothy F. Murphy, Medical Humanities Program
Shamus P. Regan, Psychology Department, UIC
“A Historical Perspective on the Emergence of Novel Ideas in Scientific Discovery”
Gwynne Gertz, English Department, UIC
“Breast Cancer Discourse: An Incident of Interruption”
Jen Davis, Sociology Department, UIC
“ Don't Call Me Sir': A Study of Frequently Misidentified Women”
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:45 Class, Gender and Social Change
Moderator: Professor Eric Arnesen, Departments of History and African-American Studies
Gwen Hoerr McNamee, History Department, UIC
“Race, Sex, and the Legal Profession: The Story of Ida Platt”
Gareth Canaan, History Department, UIC
“'Part of the Loaf': Economic Opportunities, Working Conditions, and Living Conditions of African-American Workers in Chicago During the 1920's”
Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves, History Department, UIC
“The Creation of Women's Civic Cultures in Revolutionary Guadalajara”
Amy Schneidhorst, History Department, UIC
“'Freeing Ourselves': Women Mobilized for Change in Chicago, 1966-73”
4:15 Keynote Address
LINDA GORDON
Florence Kelley Professor of History
Vilas Research Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“In Defense of the Race: The Arizona Orphan Abduction of 1904”
6:00 Buffet Dinner
Conference Steering Committee
Regina Buccola, Graduate Student, English Department
Roberta Katz, Graduate Student, Art History Department
Ana Maria Kapelusz-Poppi, Graduate Student, History Department
Agnieszka Michalak, Graduate Student, German Department
Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, Graduate Student, Political Science
Rebecca Severson, Graduate Student, Anthropology Department
Linda Vavra, Graduate Student, English Department and Assistant Director, Institute for the Humanities
