Mellon Research Seminar

Forum on Practice, 2026-2027

Wolf Humanities Center's Mellon Research Seminars are open to invited guests only.

  • September 8, 12:00 pm

    Welcome and Introductions

  • September 15, 12:00 pm

    Glenda Goodman
    Notating Empire: Printed Music and the Frontiers of Knowledge
    Respondent: Donovan Schaefer

  • September 22, 12:00 pm

    Elise Mitchell
    Remedies and Relations: Medicine, Slavery, and Freedom in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
    Respondent: Ana Ozaki

  • September 29, 12:00 pm

    Katherine Scahill
    Recalling the Lineage: Practices of Recitation and Renunciation at Three Thai Bhikkhuni Monasteries, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Pathom, Songkhla
    Respondent: Julia Domínguez

  • October 6, 12:00 pm

    Pardis Dabashi
    Interpretation and Belief: Islam and the Experience of Criticism
    Respondent: Landon Reitz

  • October 13, 12:00 pm

    Katleho Shoro
    Litema and Bambolse: Grasping at a Beyond-Colonial African Aesthetic Philosophy Through Women's Creative Practices and Embodied Knowledges
    Respondent: Sara Kazmi

  • October 20, 12:00 pm

    Deniz Türker
    Yıldız Moran and the Anatolian Lens
    Respondent: Lynette Shen

  • October 27, 12:00 pm

    Shivani Shedde
    Toward an Architectural Commons: Afro-Asians and the Labors of Development After Empire
    Respondent: Eiichiro Azuma

  • November 10, 12:00 pm

    George Perez
    Conquering Fantasies: Transfeminization and Colonial Practice in Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland
    Respondent: Sophia Rosenfeld

  • November 10, 12:00 pm

    Donovan Schaefer
    Practical Affects: AI and Pedagogies of Feeling
    Respondent: Amy Offner

  • December 1, 12:00 pm

    Sophia Cocozza
    When Sound Happens: The Global Avant-Garde and the Multisensorial Turn in Installation Art
    Respondent: Derek Baron

  • January 26, 12:00 pm

    Allan Zheng
    Following the Way: Worlding Performance in Contemporary Cambodia
    Respondent: Katleho Shoro

  • February 2, 12:00 pm

    Ana Ozaki
    Plantation and Plot Practices: Architecture, Everyday Life, and Survival in Brazil
    Respondent: Sarah Lopez

  • February 9, 12:00 pm

    Lynette Shen
    Rehearsing Home in Video: Bad Image Practices and Diasporic Belonging in the Sinophone World
    Respondent: Pardis Dabashi

  • February 16, 12:00 pm

    S. Pearl Brilmyer
    Habit & Sexual Practice
    Respondent: Sophia Cocozza

  • February 23, 12:00 pm

    Amy Offner
    The Disappearing Worker: Practices of Corporate Restructuring and the Transformation of Class Relations, 1945–2000
    Respondent: Elise Mitchell

  • March 2, 12:00 pm

    Sara Kazmi
    Ante/ Anti-Border: Writing Resistance in India and Pakistan
    Respondent: Allan Zheng

  • March 16, 12:00 pm

    Landon Reitz
    Reading Your Way to the Divine: Medieval Mystical Practices of Body, Mind, Text, and Soul
    Respondent: Deniz Türker

  • March 23, 12:00 pm

    Julia Domínguez
    Practicing Memory: Mnemonic Marvels in the Early Modern Hispanic World
    Respondent: Glenda Goodman

  • March 30, 12:00 pm

    Sarah Lopez
    Overburden: Mexican Stone Works Build North America
    Respondent: Shivani Shedde

  • April 6, 12:00 pm

    Sophia Rosenfeld
    Two Years, Five Books, and Five Women Who Might Still Save Democracy: The Politics of How We Live Now
    Respondent: S. Pearl Brilmyer

  • April 13, 12:00 pm

    Derek Baron
    The Geopolitics of Voice: Music, Sound, and Law in the Native Nineteenth Century
    Respondent: George Perez

  • April 20, 12:00 pm

    Eiichiro Azuma
    Settler Colonization on the Ground: Practicing Hawai‘i-Bred Knowledge in the Sugar and Coffee Economy of Pre-World War II Taiwan
    Respondent: Katherine Scahill

  • May 4, 12:00 pm

    Closing Discussion