Institute Associates Lunch Colloquia
The Institute hosts Lunch Colloquia at mid-day on many Wednesdays and several Thursdays during the academic year. Lunch is followed by a presentation and discussion of the current research of Institute Fellows and Affiliates. Participants include the Institute Associates and the presenter’s invited guests. If you are interested in attending a particular colloquium or would like to request further information, please email hum@northwestern.edu.
2008 - 2009 Lunch Colloquia Schedule
Welcome Lunch Colloquium
Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 12pm
Hayden White (University Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University)
Lunch Colloquium
Thursday, October 16, 2008 12pm
Peter Civetta (2007-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow)
"Mitt the Mormon: Religion, Performance, and Presidential Politics."
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008 12pm
Marco Ruffini (French & Italian, 2008-2009 Fellow)
"The Early Reception of Vasari's Lives of the Artists (1550-1568)"
Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008 12pm
Sherwin Bryant (African American Studies, 2008-2009 Fellow)
"Slavery Matters: The Position of Slavery and the Conditions of Slave Life in Eighteenth-Century Quito (Ecuador and southern Colombia)"
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 12pm
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa and Professor Emeritus, History Department, UCLA)
Lunch Colloquium
Thursday, January 15, 2009 12pm
Sam O'Connell (Theatre & Drama, 2008-2009 Graduate Affiliate) and
Sara VanderHaagen (Rhetoric and Public Culture, 2008-2009 Graduate Affiliate)
Institute Associates Lunch Colloquium
Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009 12pm to 2 pm
Adrian Curtin (Theatre & Drama, 2008-2009 Graduate Affiliate) and
Lora Walsh (Religion, 2008-2009 Graduate Affiliate)
Institute Associates Lunch Colloquium
Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 12pm
Jonathon Glassman (History, 2008-2009 Fellow)
Lunch Colloquium
Wednesday, Feb 18, 2009 12pm
Seamas O'Driscoll
"How Political Economy Shaped the Russian Classics: Introducing the Econotope"
Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009 12pm
Dan Zellner (2008-2009 Library Fellow)
“The Future of Improv”
Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009 12pm
Stephen Halsey (2007-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow)
“Writing Decentered Histories: What Europeanists Can Learn from China.”
Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009 12pm
Kay Kaufman Shelemay (G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University)
Lunch Colloquium
Thursday, May 7, 2009 12pm
Martha Biondi (African American Studies, 2008-2009 Fellow)
"Legacies of Activism: 1968 and Beyond"
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 12pm
Cecily Hilsdale (Art History, 2008-2009 Fellow)
“The Image of the Emperor and the End of Byzantium.”
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12pm
