Events Archive

2010-2011 Events

AUTUMN 2010

WINTER 2011

SPRING 2011

Tuesday, April 5
Text Seminar: TITLE TBA
Jeffrey Sconce, Associate Professor, Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern Unviersity
4.30pm in GB 313

Wednesday, April 6
SoF Meeting: Tim Michael
4.30pm in GB 313

Wednesday, April 20
SoF Meeting: Jennifer Palmer
4.30pm in GB 313

Tuesday, April 26
Workshop: Publishing the first book: Q&A with Alan G. Thomas, Editorial Director, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Chicago Press
4.30pm in GB 313

Wednesday, May 4
SoF Meeting: Nick Gaskill
4.30pm in GB 313

Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7
Weissbourd Conference: Contradiction
Basic Details: http://societyoffellows.uchicago.edu/contradiction.html
Complete Details to come soon

Wednesday, May 18
Text Seminar: "The Grand Tour in print: Count Harry Kessler's travel diaries as an editorial challenge"
Roland Kamzelak, Executive Director, German Literary Archive, Marbach
4.30pm in GB 313

Wednesday, May 25
SoF Meeting: Spencer Leonard
4.30pm in GB 313

Date TBA
Spring Party

Saturday, June 11
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2009-2010 Events

AUTUMN 09

WINTER 10

SPRING 10

2008-2009

Society of Fellows Meeting
Wednesday, May 27
4:30pm in Cobb 110
Presenter: Robert Bird, Senior Fellow & Associate Professor and Chair, Slavic Languages and Literatures


Society of Fellows Meeting
Wednesday, April 22
4:30pm in Fellows Lounge
Presenter: Andrew Dilts, Junior Fellow


Worldmaking
The Annual Wiessbourd Conference and Lecture
(click for conference website)
Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11, 2009


Society of Fellows Meeting
Tuesday, February 24
4:30pm in Fellows Lounge
Presenter: Sarah Graff, Junior Fellow


Society of Fellows Meeting
Wednesday, February 11
4:30pm in Fellows Lounge
Presenter: Liesl Olson, Junior Fellow

Society of Fellows Meeting
January 13
David Bevington, Senior Fellow
"Shakespeare on Religion"

Society of Fellows Meeting
October 29
Leigh Claire La Berge, Harper Fellow
"Fictitious Capital and Financial Fiction"

Society of Fellows Meeting
November 5
Aaron Johnson, Harper Fellow
"Hellenism and Ethnicity in Late Ancient Platonism: The Case of Porphyry of Tyre"  

Society of Fellows Meeting
November 19
Elisabeth Clemens, Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division and Professor, Department of Sociology
"Nationalizing Reciprocity: Alignments of Charity and Citizenship in American Governance"

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2007-2008

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The 2008 Weissbourd Annual Lecture
February 6, 2008
SSRC 122 at 4:30 pm

Michael Burawoy, Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley
"Social Sciences and Politics: From Max Weber to Public Sociology"

Co-sponsored by The Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies and the Anthropology of Europe Workshop

Poster (PDF)

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2006-2007

The Ethics of Collaboration
Evening of Friday, 13th April, 2007
Franke Institute for the Humanities

Speakers
Walter Melion, The Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University

Robert Richards, Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine (and Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows), University of Chicago

Melba Cuddy-Keane, Professor of English, the University of Toronto

Matt Rogalsky, media-artist, musician, and musicologist

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Intellectual Property, Piracy and Public Culture
Friday January 19th, 2007

Opening Speaker
Ravi Sundaram, Fellow, Ctr for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
“The Copy Itself”

Round table discussion following
Lawrence Rothfield, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago

Adrian Johns, Professor of History and the History of Science, University of Chicago

The event will also feature a reading of a new play by Sarah Gubbins, “Fair Use.”

Co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies Norman Harris Wait Fund.

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On Edward Said's “On Late Style:
Music and Literature against the Grain”
Wednesday, 25 October, 2006 4:30 PM
Social Science Tea Room (Room 224)

Speakers
Lydia Goehr, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

David Levin, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of History, University of Chicago

The event will conclude with a short performance of Late Beethoven by the Society of Fellows String Quartet.

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2005-2006

The Economics of Liberal Education: Notes from the Front Line
Saturday April 22
Stuart Hall 101, 5835 South Greenwood Avenue

Click here to download the full program (PDF)

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Trading Faces
Friday, February 17, 2006, 4 — 5:30 PM

Participants:
Naomi Beck, Harper Fellow in Social Sciences, History of Science
Brian Soucek, Harper Fellow in Humanities, Aesthetics
Daniel Brudney, Philosophy
William Schweiker, Theological Ethics
Richard Shweder, Psychology and Human Development

In 1967, when Christian Baarnard performed the first heart transplant, it appeared the medical equivalent of manned space flight; a heroic harbinger of unlimited future possibility. It also provoked a host of unprecedented questions about the stability of personal identity relative to the plasticity of physical embodiment. Since then organ and tissue transplantation has become routine; but the questions raised by these practices endure. The recently celebrated prospect of face transplantation provides a compelling occasion to reflect anew on the questions of personal identity posed by organ and tissue transplantation, and also by the emerging prospect of the personalized manufacture of body parts through technologies such as somatic cell nuclear transfer. In the light of these developments, how much of one's body is replaceable, renewable, or expendable before one cease's to be one's "self" exactly? Is one's face more one's "own" than one's liver? Why? Or does the very phrasing of these questions unduly privilege contemporary norms of biophysical particularity as a ground of "self" identity? How do various disciplinary perspectives contribute to an understanding of the relevant questions to ask, never mind their resolution?

Web Forum: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/webforum/032006/

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Plato Versus Simpsons?
Debates and Strategies in Teaching Classic Texts
Saturday, January 21, 2006

Morning session
Participants: Carolyn Johnson, Preston Edwards, David Bevington

1. Screening of "Bart's Inner Child" from Season Five of the The Simpsons.

2. Presentation by Preston Edwards on how to use this episode to teach a classic humanities text.

3. Presentation by Carolyn Johnson on how to use this episode to teach a classic social sciences text.

4. Remarks, questions, and reflections by David Bevington on the proposed uses of the episode, leading us into

5. A general discussion on using multimedia to enrich our teaching.
   

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2004-2005

FAMILY VALUES
April 1-2, 2005
http://societyoffellows.uchicago.edu/conferences/familyvalues/

What is really at stake in the fierce disputes that attend our discourses on the family’s forms and functions? Why is this institution the subject of such great moral and cultural anxiety? What forces have shaped the boundaries and relationships between private and public life in modern societies, and how are these forces developing in the present? What light can a comparative and critical treatment cast on the ways we argue about the past, present and future of the family in American society and in societies throughout the world?

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2003-2004

DEPRESSION: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
March 12-13, 2004
http://societyoffellows.uchicago.edu/conferences/depression/

Is disempowerment the only prognosis for the depressed? Is the goal to "get happy?" This conference asks how we might use the experience of depression as the very index of our current political climate and as a key to future political thinking. We suspect that depression in its many forms has come to suffuse the daily lives and endeavors of a wide range of people, generating important social and political effects. In a time of economic downturns (no longer referred to as "depressions"), corporate and political scandals, rising fundamentalisms, capitalism’s "triumph," the expansion of the security state and increasing threats to civil liberties, can depression be used politically?

Topics include therapeutic effects of political protest, depression’s effect on the brain, the relationship between economic and psychological depression, the privatizing definitions and economic incentives of pharmaceutical advertising, and the specificities of depression, and responses to it, in Chicago.

Speakers include Lauren Berlant, Gregg Bordowitz, Ann Cvetkovich, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Wendy Heller, Allan Horwitz, Jonathan M. Metzl, Jose Muñoz

Co-Sponsored by the Arts Planning Council, Critical Inquiry, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.

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