Mellon Research Seminar
Forum on Heritage, 2022-2023
Wolf Humanities Center's Mellon Research Seminars are open to invited guests only.
Past Seminars
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September 13,
12:00 pm
Welcome and Introductions
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September 20,
12:00 pm
Huda Fakhreddine
Revolutionizing the Tradition: Umm Kulthum and the Arabic Qas̩īda
Respondent: Jorge Téllez -
September 27,
12:00 pm
Emily Wilson
Respondent: Kostis Kourelis -
October 4,
12:00 pm
D. Bret Leraul
The Inheritors: Cultural Reproduction and the Neoliberal University in the Southern Cone, 1980-2011
Respondent: Anna Lehr Mueser -
October 11,
12:00 pm
David Barnes
Storyscapes as Portals Between Past and Present: Epidemics, Immigration, and Marginalization
Respondent: Peter Sorensen -
October 18,
12:00 pm
Grant Writing Workshop
Lisa Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology and History, South Asia Studies -
October 25,
12:00 pm
Margaret Geoga
Between Literature and History: Reception in Ancient Egypt
Respondent: Larissa Johnson -
November 1,
12:00 pm
Kimberly Takahata
Skeletal Testimony: Repatriating Narratives in the Early Atlantic
Respondent: Jake Nussbaum -
November 15,
12:00 pm
Lindsay Ceballos
Children of Gannibal: The Multiethnic Past and Future of Russian Literary Heritage (1820-90)
Respondent: Emily Wilson -
November 29,
12:00 pm
Anna Lehr Mueser
Land After Technology: Collective Memory and the New York City Water Supply
Respondent: Richard Fadok -
January 17,
12:00 pm
Max Dugan
Feeling Authentically Islamic: Halal Consumption, Islamic Tradition, and Material Religion in a Gentrifying Philadelphia
Respondent: Mary Channen Caldwell -
January 24,
12:00 pm
Philip Gentry
Space, Sound, and Heritage in Philadelphia's Old City
Respondent: David Barnes -
January 31,
12:00 pm
Larissa Johnson
Land, the Human, Practice: Indigneous revivalism in South Africa since democracy
Respondent: D. Bret Leraul -
February 7,
12:00 pm
Rebecca Haboucha
Safeguarding Indigenous Heritage in the Anthropocene: A transnational comparative study of the Northwest Territories, Canada, and northern Chile
Respondent: Kimberly Takahata -
February 14,
12:00 pm
Kostis Kourelis
Displaced in Arcadia: Archaeologies of Forced Migration in Modern Greece
Respondent: Huda Fakhreddine -
February 21,
12:00 pm
Lynn Meskell
Beyond Repair: Heritage Humanitarianism from the Middle East to India
Respondent: Ioanida Costache -
February 28,
12:00 pm
Mary Channen Caldwell
The Musical Politics of St. Nicholas: Sound, Power, and Hagiography from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century
Respondent: Margaret Geoga -
March 14,
12:00 pm
Jake Nussbaum
Beyond Time: Radical Experiments with Politics and Performance in Philadelphia
Respondent: Philip Gentry -
March 21,
12:00 pm
Richard Fadok
Animal Heritage: Multispecies Architecture in the United States
Respondent: Lindsay Ceballos -
March 28,
12:00 pm
Peter Sorensen
‘I am a Singer, I Remember the Lords’: History in the Sixteenth-Century Aztec Cantares
Respondent: Lynn Meskell -
April 4,
12:00 pm
Jorge Téllez
Latin American Cultural Heritage: Narratives of the Past, Fictions of the Future
Respondent: Rebecca Haboucha -
April 11,
12:00 pm
Ioanida Costache
Hearing Romani-ness: Affect, Subjectivity, and Musical Histories
Respondent: Max Dugan -
April 18,
12:00 pm
Cosette Bruhns Alonso, Contemporary Publishing Fellow, Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship and University of Pennsylvania Press
The Digital Publishing Turn: Considering Narrative, Multimodality, Access, and Audience -
April 25,
12:00 pm
Closing Discussion and Zine-making