Covering New Ground: Explorations in Humanities Research
January 24-25, 2002
THURSDAY, January 24, 2002
1:00-2:30 TRANSNATIONAL INFLUENCES: ASSIMILATION OR TRANSFORMATION
Moderator: Frances Aparicio, Latin American and Latino Studies
Vincent Michael, Art History, UIC
“Continuity and Clarity: The Postwar Designs of Barry Byrne”
Jia Ming Sun, Sociology, UIC
“Does Diffusion Lead to Adoption? Shanghai's Consumer Culture in the Era of Globalization”
Efrain Martinez, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, UIC
“Distorted Migrations: From Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic in SirenaSelena”
3:00-4:30 CULTURAL CRITIQUE AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN POST- WWII AMERICA
Moderator: Susan Levine, History
Sarah Rose, History, UIC
“Facial Vision and Blind Veterans: Post-World War II Narratives of Rehabilitation in the United States”
Hannah Podlevsky, Public Administration, UIC
“No Two Seats: The Voting Rights Fight in Chicago Heights”
Joe Lapsley, History, UIC
“The Playboy Philosophy and its Critics: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Early 1960's”
FRIDAY, January 25, 2002
10:30-12:00 RECIPROCITY AND RIVALRY
Moderator: Robert Williams, Germanic Studies
Annette Chapman-Adisho, History, UIC
“Portrait of a Patriot: Jean Baptiste Volfius, Constitutional Bishop of the Côte-d′Or”
Andrew Hamilton, Philosophy, UIC
“The Nietzschean Outcome of the Liar Paradox”
Brian Sheerin, English UIC
“Presence in Presents: Toward a Hermeneutic of Gratitude in Paradise Lost”
1:30-3:30 WOMEN AND REPRESENTATION: CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL NARRATIVES
Moderator: Dwight McBride, African American Studies
Paul Custer, History, University of Iowa
“Refiguring Jemima: Gender, Work and Politics in Lancashire, 1779-1819”
Bridget Harris Tsemo, English, UIC
“A New Rhetoric of Black Womanhood: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and a Proposal for an Ideal Racialist Language”
Jelena LaPorte, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, UIC
“The Single Women as Subject in Spanish Comedies of Intrigue”
Rachael L. Franklin, German, UIC
“What is it About Marriage that Makes Death so Appealing?: A Hegelian Analysis of Freedom in Der Arme Heinrich and House of Mirth”
3:30 Coffee Break, sponsored by the Center for Research on Women and Gender
4:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Natalie Zemon Davis
Henry Charles Lea Professor Emerita, Princeton University
Adjunct Professor of History and Senior Fellow in Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
“Cultural Mixture in a Divided World”
6:00 BUFFET DINNER
Everyone is invited as guests of the Institute for the Humanities. Preregistration is required by Monday, January 21. Please contact 312/996-6354 or huminst@uic.edu.
Conference Steering Committee
Cheryl Ganz History, Gender, and Women's Studies
David Akbar Gilliam Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese
Kat McLellan English
Sonia Olivia Sociology
David Potts Philosophy
Jonathan Walker English
Andrew Wyatt Anthropology
Linda Vavra Institute for the Humanities
