Covering New Ground: Explorations in Humanities Research
February 22-23, 2001
THURSDAY, February 22, 2001
9:15-10:45 SESSION I: MARKING DIFFERENCES: NATION, RACE, ETHNICITY
Moderator: Dennis Judd, Department of Political Science
William Fliss, History, UIC
“People Counting: The Making of Institutional Memory and the Federal Census, 1790-1810”>
John Abbott, History, UIC
“Rural Öffentlichkeit and the German Catholic Provinzpresse, 1900-1933”
Bidisha Biswas, Communication, UIC
“The Irish Good Friday Agreement: A Case Study in International Mediation”
11:00-12:00 SESSION II: MARKING DIFFERENCES: NATION, RACE, ETHNICITY
Moderator: Sonya Michel, Gender and Women's Studies Program
Kristin Bergen, Literature, Duke University
“A Red Ray Which Could Not Be Ignored: W.E.B Du Bois on Rationalism and Racial Violence”
Troy Kozma, Philosophy, UIC
“Beyond the Founding Myths: A Pragmatic Defense of Nations”
12:00-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-3:30 LOCAL KNOWLEDGES
Moderator: Susan Levine, Department of History
Vershawn Ashanti Young, English, UIC
“Irreconcilable Differences? Resistance, Struggle and UIC's Urban Mission”
Rebecca Morrow-Nye, History, UIC
“Racial Integration of Chicago's Unionized Musicians”
Barbara Dobschuetz, History, UIC
“The Creation of a Chicago Proto-Fundamentalist Church: The History of the Moody Church, 1864-1873”
Jennifer L. Gray, Art History, UIC
“The Ecole des Beaux-Arts versus the Bauakademie: The Tall Office Buildings of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler”
3:30 Coffee Break, Sponsored by the Graduate College, UIC
4:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Mark Kishlansky
Frank Baird Jr. Professor of English and European History, Harvard University
“A Matter of Arrangement: Writing as a Historian”
5:45 RECEPTION
FRIDAY, February 23, 2001
11:00 - 12:30 IDENTITY AND LITERARY FORM
Moderator: Jamie Daniel, Department of English
Jonathan Walker, English, UIC
“Identifying Boundaries: Nature and Culture in Ovid's Myth of Iphis and Ianthe”
Grace W. Chan, English, UIC
"Augusta Jane Evans' Macaria: or Altars of Sacrifice as the Duplicitous Double-Proposal Narrative"
David Diego Rodriguez, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, UIC
“The Albanians in The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo: Leitmotif for Exile”
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 CHRONICLES OF THE BODY'S REGULATION
Moderator: Suzanne Poirier, Medical Humanities Program
Sandra Isaacs, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, UIC
“The Orifices of the Body, the House, and the Novel”
Amelia Rulich, Sociology, UIC
“Is it Hot in Here? An Ethnic Comparison of Women and Their Experiences with Menopause”
Schuyler W. Henderson, College of Medicine, UIC
“Mightier than the Scalpel: Medical Student Poetry and Death”
3:30 Coffee Break, Sponsored by the Center for Research on Women and Gender, UIC
4:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Duke University
“Animal Relatives, Difficult Relations”
6:00 BUFFET DINNER
Everyone is invited as guests of the Institute for the Humanities. Preregistration is required by Friday, February 16. Please contact 312/996-6354 or huminst@uic.edu.
Conference Steering Committee
Nancy Turpin, History Department
Sharon Palo, English Department
Rodrigo Salcedo, Political Science Department
Linda Vavra, English Department and Assistant Director, Institute for the Humanities
Mark Vuletic, Philosophy Department
