New Faculty Wednesdays

New Faculty Wednesdays is a new initiative by the Kaplan Institute to introduce new tenure-line hires in the humanities beyond the boundaries of their own home departments to the larger multi-disciplinary community at Northwestern. These colloquia will allow new colleagues to form a circle of new acquaintances, and will permit faculty and doctoral students from many corners of the University to encounter the scholarship of the newest members of the Northwestern humanities community.

If you are interested in attending a particular New Faculty Wednesdays talk, please email us

2012 - 2013 Schedule

Fall 2012

César Braga-Pinto, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

12-1:30 pm

October 3, 2012

“Othello’s Pathologies: Reading Adolfo Caminha with Lombroso”

Frances Aparicio, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

12-1:30 pm

November 7, 2012 

“Embodying Latinidad: Intralatino/a Subjects in Chicago”

Winter 2013

Daniel Immerwahr, Department of History

12-1:30 pm

January 23, 2013 

"How to Hide an Empire: The United States and its Insular Territories in the Twentieth Century"

Spring 2013

Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Department of Art Theory & Practice

12-1:30 pm

April 17, 2013

“Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With”

Andrew Way Leong, Department of English

12-1:30 pm

April 24, 2013 

“Osato’s Complaint: Tellings off the Hallways of History ”

Sylvester Johnson, Department of African-American Studies

12-1:30 pm

May 1, 2013 

“Of Matter and the Spirit: Afro-Atlantic Religions,
Modernity, and the Problem of Materiality”

Ana Arjona, Department of Political Science

12-1:30 pm

May 22, 2013 

“Recruitment in Civil War: An institutionalist Approach”