Past Dissertation Forums

Each year the Institute invites its graduate affiliates and other humanities graduate students to present their dissertation research to Institute Associates and other invited guests.

2010 | 2011

2011 Dissertation Forum

Friday, May 6, 2011
2-5 PM, Kresge 2-370

2pm: Introduction, Holly Clayson

2:10-3:40pm: Panel I – Political Theory and History

2:10-2:25
Randall Bush (Rhetoric and Public Culture, advisor: Dilip Gaonkar)
"Between res populi and res publica: Cicero on "the people"

2:25-2:40
Diego Rossello (Political Science, advisor: Bonnie Honig)
"The Melancholic Prince and the Animal: Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin and the Decision to be Human"

2:40-2:55
Hayley Glahot (Religion, Ethics, and Public Life, advisor: Cristina Traina)
“Violence in Healing: Nineteenth Century Quakers Debate the Morality of Animal Vivisection, Gender, and Medicine in the Earthly Peaceable Kingdom”

2:55-3:13: Responses (6 minutes each)

Thomas Bauman, Musicology, Bienen School of Music
Peter J. Carroll, History
Wendy Espeland, Sociology

3:13-3:40: Open Q&A

3:40-3:55: Break

3:55-5: Panel II – Literature and Film

3:55 – 4:10
Ariel Bookman (English, advisor: Evan Mwangi)
“Consumption, Narrative, and Social Critique in the Kenyan Literary Marketplace”

4:10 – 4:25
Brendan Kredell (RTVF, advisor: Jacqueline Stewart)
"Culture-Led Urban Redevelopment: The Role of the Cinema in Re-imagining the Post-industrial City" 

4:25-4:37: Responses (6 minutes each)
Christopher Bush, French and Italian
Jörg Kreienbrock, German

4:37-5pm: Open Q&A

February 12, 2010

Participants

Randall Bush (Communication Studies)
"On Violence and the Political: Republicanism and the Anxiety over the Demos”

Shawn Clybor (History)
“Communism and Culture: Czechoslovakia and the Avant-Garde, 1920-1956”

Darcy Hughes Heuring (History)
"Health and the Politics of ‘Improvement’ in British Colonial Jamaica, 1914-1945”

Angelina Lucento (Art History)
“Debating the Socialist Image: The Conflict between Painting and Photography in Soviet Art, 1926-1937”

Michael Nichols (Religious Studies)
"Malleable Māra: The Rhetorical and Satirical Uses of ‘the Evil One’ in Buddhist Literature”