Covering New Ground: Explorations in Humanities Research
February 27, 2003
1:30-3:00 SHIFTING REGIONAL STRATEGIES
John Reda, History, UIC
“Illinois Slavery Reconsidered: The Significance of the Northwest Ordinance”
William P. Malone, History, UIC
“Roots of Revolutionary Religious Social Thought in Pre-1954 Guatemala”
Vania Smith, Anthropology, UIC
“Political Ecology of Nahua Healers of the Huasteca, Mexico”
3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 RHETORICS OF RELIGION AND POLITICS
Peter Beckway, English, UIC
“The Narrative Threat to Theodicy in Paradise Lost”
Kat McLellan, English, UIC
"Mary Astell: The Contemporary Relevance of a Seventeenth-Century Critique of John Locke"
Brenda Eatman Aghahowa, English, UIC
“The Patriotic Rhetoric of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan:
Black-American or Just Plain Old American Political Communication?”
2:00-3:30 MODERN AMERICAN REPRESENTATIONS
Aaron Max Berkowitz, History, UIC
“Now He Understands the Game: IWW Political Cartoons and Political Action, 1905-1922”
Catherine R. Mintler, English, UIC
“Gendered Body Doubles: The Role of Mannequins in the Objectification of Women and the Production of Feminine Identity in Early Capitalism”
Jeff Helgeson, History, UIC
‘Put on Your Best Bib and Tucker Respectability and Equality in the Chicago Urban League, 1944-1953”
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Lawrence Levine
Margaret Byrne Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of History and Cultural Studies, George Mason University
‘Man and Superman: Success, Individualism, and Institutions in Depression America”
6:00 RECEPTION
Graduate Conference Steering Committee
Sarah Rose, Department of History; Jennifer Rudolph, Departments of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese; and Latin American and Latino Studies; Bridget Harris Tsemo, Departments of English and African American Studies; Linda Vavra, Institute for the Humanities
