Calendar of Events
Fall 2011 (ARCHIVED)
Four of last year’s fellows report on their work during their fellowship year:
Winson Chu (History), on interethnic relations around the German-Polish border
John Coletta (English, UW-Stevens Point), on the ways transitional and ecologically situated bodies have been used for religious and political purposes
Valerie Laken (English), on space and time in fiction
Richard Leson (Art History), on recurring patterns in the prayer books of four aristocratic women in medieval France
2:00 pm Curtin Hall 118
Winson Chu (History), on interethnic relations around the German-Polish border
John Coletta (English, UW-Stevens Point), on the ways transitional and ecologically situated bodies have been used for religious and political purposes
Valerie Laken (English), on space and time in fiction
Richard Leson (Art History), on recurring patterns in the prayer books of four aristocratic women in medieval France
2:00 pm Curtin Hall 118
C21 Open House
Learn more about C21 programs and research opportunities in 2011-12.
4:00 pm Curtin 939
4:00 pm Curtin 939
Black Leninism; Or, Newspapers and Revolutionary Attunement from Lenin to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
a lecture3:30 pm Curtin Hall 118
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Film screening: Finally Got the News (1970)
Tuesday, September 27
4:00 pm Curtin 118
Brown bag lunch with Jonathan Flatley
Friday, September 30
12 noon, Curtin 939
Background reading . . .
Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies
Third Annual New American Studies Lecture2:00 pm Curtin Hall 175
Co-sponsored by UWM Cultures and Communities Program, the College of Letters & Science, and the Vilas Trust
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Brown bag lunch with Donald Pease
Monday, October 3
12 noon Curtin 939
Background reading . . .
Terminal Species: Narrative, Database, and Biodiversity Loss
a lecture3:30 pm, Curtin 118
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Brown bag lunch with Ursula Heise
Friday October 7
12 noon Curtin 939
Friday, October 21, 2011
Jane Taylor (Centre for Humanities Research, University of Western Cape, South Africa)
Jane Taylor (Centre for Humanities Research, University of Western Cape, South Africa)
PERFORM/REFORM
a lecture3:30 pm, Curtin 118
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Brown bag lunch with Jane Taylor
Friday, October 21
12 noon Curtin 939
Background reading and images. . .
The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods
a lecture1:30 pm, 4th Floor Conference Center
Golda Meir Library
Co-sponsored by UWM School of Information Studies (SOIS)
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Romanesque Sculpture, the Body, the Senses, and Religious Experience
a lecture3:30 pm Curtin 118
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Uneven Commercialization: Contradiction and Conflict in the Identity and Practices of American Universities
a lecture3:30 pm Curtin 118
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Brown bag lunch with Daniel Kleinman
Friday, December 2
12 noon Curtin 939
All events are free and open to the public
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