Covering New Ground: Explorations in Humanities Research
February 17-18, 2000
THURSDAY, February 17, 2000
9:15-10:45 CONSTRUCTION OF CONTEMPORARY FEMALE MEXICAN AND MEXICAN-AMERICAN IDENTITIES
Moderator: Professor Margarita Saona, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese Department
Inés Sahagún, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, UIC
“Feminized Space in Contemporary Novels by Mexican Women Writers”
Danila E. Miranda, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, UIC
“Good, Bad, and Ugly: Women on Telenovelas”
Jennifer Cohen, English, UIC
“Making Their Own Way: Literacy, Identity and the Internet among Mexican American High School Girls on Chicago's Southeast Side”
11:00-12:30 MAKING IT VISIBLE
Moderator: Professor Robert Bruegmann, Art History Department and School of Architecture
Dasha Dekleva, Art History, UIC
“Marcel Broodthaers and Musée d'Art Moderne”
Robert W. Schroer, Philosophy, UIC
“Visual Experience and the Color Matching Paradox”
Laura Iandola, History, UIC
“Visual Sociology in the Neighborhood of Hull-House: Wallace Kirkland's Photographic Vision”
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 NARRATIVES OF DESIRE AND IDENTITY
Moderator: Professor Anne J. Cruz, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese Department
Andrew Rabin, English, University of Chicago
“Dreams Deferred: Totality and Fragmentation in Chaucer's Squire's Tale”
Juan Ignacio Calduch, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, UIC
“Do We Still Believe in Cabeza de Vaca?: The Discourse of Adversity in the First Written Words about North America”
Frances Botkin, English, UIC
“The Price is Right: Mansfield Park’s Mawkish Maiden”
3:30 Coffee Break, Sponsored by The Graduate College, University of Illinois at Chicago
4:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Elaine Scarry
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University
“Thinking in an Emergency”
5:30 RECEPTION
FRIDAY, February 18, 2000
9:15-10:45 FORMATIONS OF COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES
Moderator: Professor Christian Messenger, English Department
Todd Starkweather, English, UIC
“Nineteenth Century Australian National Identity: Aboriginal Cricket and White Australian Reaction”
David Akbar Gilliam, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, UIC
"Sancho Panza and Ricote the Moor Under a Bakhtinian Lens: Race, Class, Religion and Politics Explored in Don Quijote"
Michael Jalovecky, Political Science, UIC
“Doctrines of Exceptionalism: An Exploration for Common Ground in the Americas”
11:00-12:30 CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE, CONSTRUCTING TERMS
Moderator: Professor Sydney A. Halpern, Sociology Department
Eva S. Becsei, History, UIC
“Going Against the Grain: Peyton Rous (1870-1970), Cancer Research as Contested Knowledge”
John Santiago, Philosophy, UIC
“Social Rationality”
Elizabeth Louise Sweet, Urban Planning and Policy Program, UIC
“Deconstructing Gendered Stereotypes of Work and Economic Activity in a Mexican Village”
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 WOMEN NEGOTIATING SURVIVAL AND SOCIAL CONVENTIONS
Moderator: Professor Renato Barahona, History Department
Edward Behrend Martínez, History, UIC
“Escaping the Sacrament of Marriage: Impotency Trials in the Ecclesiastical Court of the Dicoese of Calahorra and La Calzada, Spain, 1670-1715”
Lee Baker, History, UIC
“Survival Strategies of Widows in Dijon, France During the Late Eighteenth Century”
Sharon Smith Palo, English, UIC
“Lessons in Chimerical Adventures and Profane Love: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote and the Education of Women in Eighteenth Century England”
3:30 Coffee Break, Sponsored by the Center for Research on Women and Gender, University of Illinois at Chicago
4:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Thomas Laqueur
Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
“Subjectivity, Guilt and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Autoeroticism”
6:00 BUFFET DINNER
Preregistration required. Please contact 312/996-6354 or huminst@uic.edu.
Conference Steering Committee
Rhonda E. Dugan, Department of Sociology
Kimberly Ruffin, Departments of African-American Studies and English
Elli Shellist, Department of English
Peter Ufland, Department of History
Linda Vavra, English Department and Institute for the Humanities
