Past Lunch Colloquia
2008 - 2009
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
2007-2008
Ji-Yeon YUH (History, 2006-2007 Institute Fellow)
"Globalizing Koreans: Diaspora and its Legacies"
Wednesday, October 24 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, University Library, 3rd floor
Interfaith Religion & Ecology panel (in conjunction with the 2007 Chicago Humanities Festival "The Climate of Concern" www.chfestival.org)
Randall Balmer, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Umar Faruq Abd-Allah, and Bill McKibben
Monday, November 5 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Norris Center, Big Ten Room, 1st floor
Ian BURUMA (Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College)
Friday, Nov. 9 from
12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Norris University Center, Big Ten Room
Helen THOMPSON (English, 2006-2007 Institute Fellow)
"John Locke’s Secondary Qualities"
Wednesday, November 14 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, University Library, 3rd floor
Julia STERN (English, 2007-2008 Institute Fellow)
"Revolt: Family Troubles in a House Divided" (on Mary Chesnut’s Civil War diaries)
Wednesday, December 5 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, University Library, 3rd floor
Michael SHERRY (History and 2007-2008 Institute Fellow)
"Go Directly to Jail: The Punitive Turn in American Life."
Wednesday, Jan. 16 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, NU Library, 3rd floor
Huey COPELAND (Art History and 2007-2008 Institute Fellow)
"Fred Wilson and the Rhetoric of Reparation."
Wednesday, Jan. 30 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, NU Library, 3rd floor
Christopher LANE (English and 2007-2008 Institute Fellow)
"How the Brontes Pit Belief against the Established Church"
Wednesday, Feb. 13 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, NU Library, 3rd floor
T.J. CLARK (Art History, UC Berkeley)
Thursday, March 13 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Hagstrum room, University 201
Rüdiger SEESEMANN (Religion and 2007-2008 Institute Fellow)
"Studying Sufism: Lessons from West Africa"
Wednesday, April 9 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, NU Library, 3rd floor
Scott GARTON (Reference and 2007-2008 Library Fellow)
"A Life in Time and Space: Examining the Life and Career of Aubrey Beardsley through Geographic Software"
Wednesday, May 21 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, NU Library, 3rd floor
Page DUBOIS (Classics and Comp Lit, UC San Diego)
Thursday, May 8 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, NU Library, 3rd floor
