Covering New Ground: Explorations in Humanities Research
February 13, 2004
9:30-11:00 POLITICS, ETHNICITIES, AND CLASS
Marisa Fontana, Anthropology, UIC
This is War: Standardizing Fortification in the Mississippian Southeast
Sam Mitrani, History, UIC
To Serve and Protect the New Industrial Order: The Creation of the Police in Antebellum Chicago
Aaron Max Berkowitz, History, UIC
John Fitzpatrick, the Labor Party of Cook County, and Local Democratic Politics in the Chicago Mayoral Election, 1919
Tarini Bedi, Anthropology, UIC
Hindutva and the Making of Class Experience in the Diaspora: A Neo-Weberian Approach
11:15-12:30 “WHERE DO THE PASSIONS GO?”:
MADNESS, BEAUTY, AND PRACTICAL REASON
Dana Rovang, History, UIC
The Passion of George III: Madness, Reason, and Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Carlos Briones, Philosophy, UIC
Being Authentic by Being like Everyone Else? Charles Taylor and the Threat of Normalization
Caleb Spencer, English, UIC
Bourdieu's Aesthetic: Class Distinction and the Impossibility of Beauty
2:00-3:30 WRITING/REWRITING: READING/REREADING
Todd Starkweather, English, UIC
"The Non-professing Professional": The Role of Sports and the Professional/Amateur Debate in the Fiction of Charles Dickens
Steven Iglesias and Marc James Mueller, Germanic Studies, UIC
Translation as Reconstruction
Nadya Pittendrigh, English, UIC
A Narrative Crux in Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Andrea Reimann, Germanic Studies, UIC
Binding Imagined Communities in Emergent Turkish-German Auteur Cinema
3:30 COFFEE BREAK
4:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Lauren Berlant
English Department, University of Chicago
On Wanting to be Normal: Capitalism, Psychoanalysis, and Intimacy in Rosetta and La Promesse
6:00 RECEPTION
Graduate Conference Steering Committee
Alexandra Dimitrova, Germanic Studies Department; John J. Rosen, History Department; Brain Sheerin, English Department; Linda Vavra, Institute for the Humanities
