Mellon Research Seminar
Forum on Keywords, 2024-2025
Wolf Humanities Center's Mellon Research Seminars are open to invited guests only.
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January 21,
12:00 pm
Levels of Life: A History of 'the Standard of Living' in France and Its Empire, 1890-1966
Respondent: Paniz Musawi Natanzi
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January 28,
12:00 pm
Democracy's Gangsters: Racial Rule and the Decline of Pluralism
Respondent: Delia Solomons
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February 4,
12:00 pm
Ante-Possession: The Afterlives of Dispossession
Respondent: Paige Pendarvis
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February 11,
12:00 pm
Containment in Inter-American Politics and Aesthetics
Respondent: Amanda McMillan Lequieu
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February 18,
12:00 pm
Small Wars of Scarcity: North African Corsairs in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Respondent: Jeremy Steinberg
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February 25,
12:00 pm
Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America
Respondent: Michael G. Hanchard
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March 4,
12:00 pm
Nodes of Connectivity: Jahani and Iranian Modernism's Worldly Belonging
Respondent: Jacob Myers
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March 18,
12:00 pm
How the Bible Became Literature: Jewish Assumptions About the Nature of Text in the Hellenistic Period
Respondent: Francesca Ammon
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March 25,
12:00 pm
Undoing Bastards: Of Polygamy, Kinship, and Family in Modern Turkey
Respondent: Shannon Walters
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April 1,
12:00 pm
Toward an Ethics of Friendship: Tablighi Jamaat in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Respondent: Whitney Trettien
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April 8,
12:00 pm
Palimpsests of Blackness: Staging Race in the Afro-Latin American Performances of Nascimento, Zapata Olivella, and Santa Cruz
Respondent: Sebastián Gil-Riaño
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April 15,
12:00 pm
Trivial Pursuits: Women Readers, Materialist Feminism, and a New Life of Bookishness in the Twenty-First Century
Respondent: Charlotte Kiechel
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April 22,
12:00 pm
Anticolonial Comparisons: The Politics of Decolonization and Holocaust Memory
Respondent: Lisa Mitchell
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April 29,
12:00 pm
Closing Discussion
Past Seminars
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September 10,
12:00 pm
Welcome and Introductions
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September 17,
12:00 pm
Lisa Mitchell
"Democracy," Redistributive Experimentation, and the Idea of the Government Job in India
Respondent: David Kazanjian -
September 24,
12:00 pm
Keywords of Disposability: Sacrifice Zones and the Translation of Modern Social Problems
Respondent: Bakirathi Mani
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October 1,
12:00 pm
Job Market Workshop
Seçil Yilmaz and Sebastián Gil-Riaño
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October 8,
12:00 pm
Noxious Life: Figuring Vermin in the Natural Histories of the British Caribbean
Respondent: Lama Elsharif
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October 15,
12:00 pm
Masculinities, Labor and Race: The War Mode of Art Production in Afghanistan
Respondent: Seçil Yilmaz
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October 22,
12:00 pm
Preserving the City: Urban Renewal and Conservation in Society Hill, Philadelphia
Respondent: Juan Suárez Ontaneda
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October 29,
12:00 pm
Paranormal Rhetorics: Disability Magic and Crip Glamour
Respondent: Angelina Eimannsberger
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November 12,
12:00 pm
From Type to .txt: The Origins of Data
Respondent: Usmon Boron
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November 19,
12:00 pm
Capturing the Aché: Violence, Indigeneity, and Modernization in the Human Sciences during the Cold War
Respondent: Maryam Athari
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December 3,
12:00 pm
Diaspora, Race, and Representation in the Family Album Archive
Respondent: Jennifer Reiss