Covering New Ground: Explorations in Humanities Research
A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
March 9, 2006
Covering New Ground
Explorations on Humanities Research:
A Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Student Conference
MARCH 9, 2006
9:00 - 10:45 AM: PANEL I: Gendered Subjectivities and Modern Problems
Men and Machines in Weimar Modernity: Re- and Deconstructing the Subjective Masculine Body in Post-War Germany
Stacy Jeffries, Germanic Studies Department, UIC
"It Is For The Mother": Feminist Rhetorics of Disability During the American Eugenics Movement
Sharon Lamp, Disability and Human Development, UIC
Relative Culpability: Reconsidering Gender, Marriage, and Red Scare Politics in the Case of Esther Caulkin Brunauer
Elizabeth Collins, History Department, UIC
"We Needed Some Tears on Our Side": Girl Scouts on Trial After the 1977 Camp Scott Murders
Amy Sullivan, History Department, UIC
Remembering the Queer Old Days: Cultivators of Collective Memory in the Production of a Useable Past
Lara Kelland, History Department, UIC
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: PANEL II: Ethnicity, Religion, Text: Foundations of Community?
How Whitman's Labored Math Makes Citizens of U.S. All: White+Black = Black, White+Red= White
Alex Wulff, English Department, UIC
Indian Country
John French, Political Science Department, UIC
Abolition and Pacifism: Conflicting Interest in the Quaker Community during the American Civil War
Erika McCombs, English Department, UIC
Cosmopolitan Pluralism: A Comparative Inquiry into the Aesthetic Limits of 1930s Cuban and North American Literature
Emilio Sauri, English Department, UIC
LUNCH BREAK
1:45 - 3:30 PM: PANEL III: Language, Philosophy, and Architecture: Problems of Method and Design
The Excellency of Understanding over Truth: Robert Boyle on Intelligibility
Brian Dean, Philosophy Department, UIC
RE(-)CREATING CELAN : Linguistic Theory and Translation
L. Steven Iglesias, Germanic Studies Department, UIC
The Fin-de-Siècle Syndrome: History and Hysteria in Carol De Chellis Hill's Henry James' Midnight Song
Madeleine Monson-Rosen, English Department, UIC
"Because it is a witness": Gertrude Stein in Jean-Francois Lyotard's The Differend
John Steen, Comparative Literature Department, Emory University
"Blob" Science: Biology, Technology, and Contemporary Architecture
Carissa Kowalski Dougherty, Art History Department, UIC
4:00 PM KEYNOTE LECTURE
Mary Louise Pratt
Silver Professor, New York University
Beyond Translation: Towards a Geolinguistic Imagination
Graduate Conference Steering Committee
Andrew Blom, Philosophy Department; Emily LaBarbera-Twarog, History Department; Todd Thompson, English Department; Linda Vavra, Institute for the Humanities
For more information, Contact Linda Vavra at 312-996-6354 or lvavra@uic.edu
