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Institute for the Humanities
2011-2012 Working Groups

The UIC Institute for the Humanities encourages interdisciplinary research and intellectual exchange by sponsoring a variety of faculty working groups each year. The format for working groups is flexible and is determined by the faculty coordinators. The Institute supports working groups with modest funds for materials, honoraria, and publicity. Watch our website for more information on current working group events. A call for new working group proposals will be posted on the Institute website during the spring semester.

Forum for Research on Law, Politics, and the Humanities (FROLPATH)
Mark Canuel, English
Stephen Engelmann, Political Science
Research in a range of disciplines has focused on institutional formations, legal
structures, political rhetorics, and social identities. This forum seeks to bring
together scholars who approach these issues from a variety of perspectives.

Chicago Area Food Studies (CAF)
Phyllis Bowen, Nutrition
Molly Doane, Anthropology
Susan Levine, History and Institute for the Humanities
Gayatri Reddy, Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies
Alice Weinreb, History, Northwestern
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, History
This group brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines and institutions to
discuss issues in the politics, culture, and history of food.

Visual Culture
Sara F Hall, Germanic Studies
Norma Claire Moruzzi, Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies
Margarita Saona, Hispanic and Italian Studies
This forum seeks to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about issues of vision,
visuality, and visual culture. Our goal is to develop a dialogue among scholars
studying vision as a biological/physical operation, those researching and writing
about visual objects both contemporary and historical, and artists creating original
work.

Health and Society
Sydney Halpern, Sociology
Sandy Sufian, Medical Humanities and History
This group aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars who work
on issues of health, disease, disability, and medicine. The goal is to encourage
exchange and collaboration across the humanities, social sciences, and health fields.

Class Dismissed?
Leon Fink, History
Walter Benn Michaels, English
Historians have chronicled the last days of the working class, post-Marxists have
questioned the contemporary relevance of the concept of class, and neoliberal
economists have denied there ever were such things as classes. This working group,
bringing together historians, literary critics, and political theorists, will focus on
both the history of class and especially its relevance (if any) at the present time.

Publics, Cultures, Practices of Difference
Corey Capers, African American Studies and History
Ainsworth Clarke, African American Studies and English
Rama Mantena, History
This study group brings together scholars interested in the contemporary and
historical practices of differences in the context of scholarship, politics, and
everyday life. We intend the forum to engage in conversations across disciplinary
and methodological commitments.

Affiliated Seminars:

Midwest Historians of East Central Europe
Keely Stauter- Halsted, Department of History

Chicago Area Seminar in Latin American History
Christopher Boyer, Departments of History and Latin American and Latino Studies