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After Europe: Postcolonial Thought in the Age of Globalization

Conferences Building/Room: Swift Hall, Commons Room. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Franke Institute for the Humanities, 3CT, Nicholson Center for British Studies. Conference Title: After Europe: Postcolonial Thought in the Age of Globalization. Presenter(s): Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA), Miranda Johnson (Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ajay Skaria (Department of History, University of Minnesota), Faisal Devji (Department of Contemporary South Asian Studies, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford), Sanjay Seth (Department of Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London),Sandro Mezzadra (Department of Political Science, University of Bologna), Sheldon Pollock (Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University), B… Contact Name: Dwaipayan Sen. Contact E-mail: sen@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773 689 0905. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This conference is intended to mark the completion of ten years since the first publication of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. It is an attempt to map the varied trajectories the idea of provincializing Europe has taken since its first adumbration in a seminal essay by Chakrabarty nearly eighteen years ago. We imagine the conference as a conversation in which a range of scholars whose work has in one way or another been inflected by … Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, March 12, 2010, 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM. The University of Chicago Swift Hall, Commons Room 1025 E. 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637.

Montesquieu and the Uses of Nobility

Conferences Building/Room: Social Sciences 224. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): France Chicago Center; Norman Wait Harris Fund. Conference Title: Montesquieu and the Uses of Nobility. Presenter(s): Céline Spector, Catherine Larrère, Paul Rahe, Kent Wright, Elena Russo, Paul Cheney, Robert Morrissey. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Paul Cheney. Contact E-mail: cheney@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: During the century of Enlightenment Charles Louis de Montesquieu, author of the Lettres Persanes and De l’esprit des lois, enjoyed an intellectual preeminence that is difficult to overstate; in France, Europe and beyond, members of the Republic of Letters turned to Montesquieu as a source of ideas and of authority on such questions as the nature and history of moderate government; the evolving role of commerce; the causes of despotism; and the role of the nobility in states and societies progressing toward… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, March 12, 2010, 11:00 AM – 5:30 PM. John Hope Franklin Room Social Sciences 224 1126 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637.

Montesquieu and the Uses of Nobility

Conferences Building/Room: Social Sciences 224. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): France Chicago Center; Norman Wait Harris Fund. Conference Title: Montesquieu and the Uses of Nobility. Presenter(s): Céline Spector, Catherine Larrère, Paul Rahe, Kent Wright, Elena Russo, Paul Cheney, Robert Morrissey. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Paul Cheney. Contact E-mail: cheney@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: During the century of Enlightenment Charles Louis de Montesquieu, author of the Lettres Persanes and De l’esprit des lois, enjoyed an intellectual preeminence that is difficult to overstate; in France, Europe and beyond, members of the Republic of Letters turned to Montesquieu as a source of ideas and of authority on such questions as the nature and history of moderate government; the evolving role of commerce; the causes of despotism; and the role of the nobility in states and societies progressing toward… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, March 13, 2010, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM. John Hope Franklin Room Social Sciences 224 1126 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637.

Celebration of Bill Wimsatt’s Scholarship

Conferences Building/Room: Social Sciences 224. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy Department, the College, the Division of the HumanitiesPhilosophy Department, the College, the Division of the Humanities. Conference Title: Celebration of Bill Wimsatt’s Scholarship. Presenter(s): Robert Batterman, Robert Richards, Sahotra Sarkar, William Bechtel, Paul Humphreys, Stuart Glennan, Michael Weisberg, Thomas Nickles, Jeffrey Schank, Sergio Martinez, Salli Mufwene, Carl Craver, Robert Richardson, James Griesemer, William Wimsatt. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Robert J. Richards. Contact E-mail: mkbm@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8348. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Papers will be presented by Bill Wimsatt’s former students and colleagues that indicate the relationship of their own work to that of Bill. The papers will be approximately 20 minutes, with 20 minutes of discussion. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, April 9, 2010, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Social Sciences Building, Room 224 1126 E. 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637.

Celebration of Bill Wimsatt’s Scholarship

Conferences Building/Room: Social Sciences 224. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy Department, the College, the Division of the HumanitiesPhilosophy Department, the College, the Division of the Humanities. Conference Title: Celebration of Bill Wimsatt’s Scholarship. Presenter(s): Robert Batterman, Robert Richards, Sahotra Sarkar, William Bechtel, Paul Humphreys, Stuart Glennan, Michael Weisberg, Thomas Nickles, Jeffrey Schank, Sergio Martinez, Salli Mufwene, Carl Craver, Robert Richardson, James Griesemer, William Wimsatt. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Robert J. Richards. Contact E-mail: mkbm@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8348. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Papers will be presented by Bill Wimsatt’s former students and colleagues that indicate the relationship of their own work to that of Bill. The papers will be approximately 20 minutes, with 20 minutes of discussion. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, April 10, 2010, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Social Sciences Building, Room 224 1126 E. 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637.

AE Stallings

This event is free and open to the public. Building/Room: Classics 110. Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing. Contact Name: Kate Soto. Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-834-8524. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: A. E. (Alicia) Stallings studied classics in Athens, Georgia and has lived since 1999 in Athens, Greece. She has published two books of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award, and Hapax (2000). Her new verse translation of Lucretius (in rhyming fourteeners!), The Nature of Things, is being published by Penguin Classics. She lives with her husband, John Psaropoulos, editor of the Athens News, and their small argonaut, Jason. She has a web site at www.geocities.com/aestallings. Disability Clause: If you need assistance in order to participate in this event, please contact 773-834-8524. Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM. University of Chicago, Classics 110. For more info visit creativewriting.uchicago.edu.

German and Hebrew: Histories of a Conversation

Conferences The conference sessions during the day on Thursday will be at Rosenwald 405. The keynote and concert that evening (starting at 4:30) will be at Fulton Hall. All of the sessions on Friday will be in Classics 110. The program is forthcoming. Building/Room: Various. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Dean of the Division of Humanities, Franke Institute, Center for International Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Germanic Studies. Conference Title: German and Hebrew: Histories of a Conversation. Presenter(s): Sebastian Wogenstein (U. Conn), Abigail Gilman (Boston U), Michal Ben-Horin (U of Florida), Amir Eshel (Stanford), Vivian Liska (Antwerp), Michael Brenner (Munich), Michal Govrin (author, Israel). Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Na’ama Rokem. Contact E-mail: nrokem@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: A conference that aims to challenge our understanding of the dynamics at the intersection of German and Jewish culture by emphasizing the extensive cultural production on the German-Jewish and increasingly German-Israeli fault lines and by putting the dialogue between the two languages and literatures – German and Hebrew – at the center. ___ In 1966 the renowned Kabbalah scholar and German-born Jewish thinker Gerschom Scholem stated that the German-Jewish conversation had been a one-sided monologue carr… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, April 15, 2010, 5:00 PM – Friday, April 16, 2010, 5:30 PM. Thursday sessions: Rosenwald 405 Thursday keynote and concert (starting 4:30 p.m.): Fulton Hall Friday sessions: Classics 110.

Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, 14th Annual Conference

Conferences This conference is essentially in three parts: 1) The bulk of the conference will be two days of student papers - Friday from 12pm-3pm and Saturday from 9-5pm. 2) The second part is the keynote lecture on Friday from 3:30-5pm. 3) A new music concert Saturday evening from 8-9pm. Building/Room: Fulton Recital Hall. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): University of Chicago Department of Music. Conference Title: Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, 14th Annual Conference. Presenter(s): Keynote lecture by Professor Martin Scherzinger (NYU) titled “Boulez, Prophet (or How Deleuze Misunderstands Music)”; other presenters will be determined by the MGMC selection committee during January -- all will be students in music from universities across North America. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Martha Sprigge. Contact E-mail: mgmc2010@gmail.com. Contact Phone: 773-574-2124. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Midwest Graduate Music Consortium is a collaborative venture between music students at three schools--University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Northwestern University--and held at each school on a rotating basis. The conference this year features two days of student papers by graduate students in music from across North America, a new music concert of selected student compositions, and a keynote lecture by Prof. Martin Scherzinger of New York University. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, April 16, 2010, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Fulton Recital Hall, Department of Music Goodspeed Hall 5845 South Ellis Avenue, 4th Floor Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit humanities.uchicago.edu.

Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, 14th Annual Conference

Conferences This conference is essentially in three parts: 1) The bulk of the conference will be two days of student papers - Friday from 12pm-3pm and Saturday from 9-5pm. 2) The second part is the keynote lecture on Friday from 3:30-5pm. 3) A new music concert Saturday evening from 8-9pm. Building/Room: Fulton Recital Hall. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): University of Chicago Department of Music. Conference Title: Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, 14th Annual Conference. Presenter(s): Keynote lecture by Professor Martin Scherzinger (NYU) titled “Boulez, Prophet (or How Deleuze Misunderstands Music)”; other presenters will be determined by the MGMC selection committee during January -- all will be students in music from universities across North America. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Martha Sprigge. Contact E-mail: mgmc2010@gmail.com. Contact Phone: 773-574-2124. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Midwest Graduate Music Consortium is a collaborative venture between music students at three schools--University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Northwestern University--and held at each school on a rotating basis. The conference this year features two days of student papers by graduate students in music from across North America, a new music concert of selected student compositions, and a keynote lecture by Prof. Martin Scherzinger of New York University. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, April 17, 2010, 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM. Fulton Recital Hall, Department of Music Goodspeed Hall 5845 South Ellis Avenue, 4th Floor Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit humanities.uchicago.edu.

Slavic Forum

Conferences Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Slavic. Other Sponsor(s): CEERES, Student Government. Conference Title: Slavic Forum. Presenter(s): TBA. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Meredith Clason, CEERES. Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-0866. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Slavic Forum has been an annual event on The University of Chicago campus since 1979 and welcomes paper submissions dealing with any aspect of Slavic studies, including linguistics, literature, art, history, anthropology, and interdisciplinary. Panel themes will be determined by the Slavic Forum committee following acceptance of papers to the conference. Past panels have included topics such as Slavic Linguistics, Text and Image, Space and Time, and Slavs Abroad. Past papers have included: "Andrei Dro… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, April 23, 2010, 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities The University of Chicago 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, Illinois 60637. For more info visit ceeres.uchicago.edu.

Slavic Forum

Conferences Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Slavic. Other Sponsor(s): CEERES, Student Government. Conference Title: Slavic Forum. Presenter(s): TBA. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Meredith Clason, CEERES. Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-0866. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Slavic Forum has been an annual event on The University of Chicago campus since 1979 and welcomes paper submissions dealing with any aspect of Slavic studies, including linguistics, literature, art, history, anthropology, and interdisciplinary. Panel themes will be determined by the Slavic Forum committee following acceptance of papers to the conference. Past panels have included topics such as Slavic Linguistics, Text and Image, Space and Time, and Slavs Abroad. Past papers have included: "Andrei Dro… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, April 24, 2010, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities The University of Chicago 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, Illinois 60637. For more info visit ceeres.uchicago.edu.

The Chicago Humanities Forum Presents Josef Stern

Chicago Humanities Forum This event is open to the public. Please RSVP by calling (773)702-8274 or emailing franke-humanities@uchicago.edu. You may also register online through this calendar application. Building/Room: Gleacher Center, Room 621. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Presenter: Josef Stern. Lecture Title: "The Unbinding of Isaac: Maimonides on Genesis 22 (The Aqedah)". Contact E-mail: franke-humanities@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8274. Campus Map: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/visit/gleacher/. Event Description: Josef Stern is an identical twin, teaches in Chicago and resides in Jerusalem, and works in two main areas: contemporary philosophy of language and medieval philosophy, especially Jewish and Arabic philosophy. His interests in the philosophy of language focus on the theory of reference, the role of context in semantic interpretation, the distinction between literal and non-literal meaning, and between linguistic and non-linguistic modes of representation and communication. He is also working on the histor… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM. Gleacher Center 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Room 621 Chicago, IL.

The Films of Marcel Broodthaers: Between Art History and Film Studies, A One-Day Symposium

Conferences Building/Room: Cobb 307. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Arts Council, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, France Chicago Center, Department of Art History. Conference Title: The Films of Marcel Broodthaers: Between Art History and Film Studies, A One-Day Symposium. Presenter(s): Key-note address: Benjamin Buchloh, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University , Bruce Jenkins, Professor, Film, Video, New Media, The Art Institute of Chicago - “Postscript: The Impossible Cinema of Marcel Broodthaers,” in The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film (Wallflower, 2007). - “Un Peu Tard: Citation in the Cinema of Marcel Broodthaers,” in Marcel Broodthaers: Cinéma (Fundció Antoni Tapes, 1997). - "CB: Cineam Broodthaers,” in Marcel Broodthaers (Walker… Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Sabrina Craig. Contact E-mail: scraig1@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-213-8464. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Films of Marcel Broodthaers: Between Art History and Film Studies is not only a rare opportunity to study the artists’ 35mm films; it is also a chance to discuss the centrality of film within his visual, literary, and conceptual oeuvre. By placing films at the center of a diverse public discussion, this event series promotes object-based inquiry across the disciplines. It fosters community building by bringing together faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students from diverse departments of the… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, May 15, 2010, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Film Studies Center 5811 South Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall 306 Chicago, Illinois 60637. For more info visit filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.