Mellon Research Seminar

Forum on Keywords, 2024-2025

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

  • January 21, 12:00 pm

    Paige Pendarvis

    Levels of Life: A History of 'the Standard of Living' in France and Its Empire, 1890-1966

    Respondent: Paniz Musawi Natanzi

  • January 28, 12:00 pm

    Michael G. Hanchard

    Democracy's Gangsters: Racial Rule and the Decline of Pluralism

    Respondent: Delia Solomons

  • February 4, 12:00 pm

    David Kazanjian

    Ante-Possession: The Afterlives of Dispossession

    Respondent: Paige Pendarvis

  • February 11, 12:00 pm

    Delia Solomons

    Containment in Inter-American Politics and Aesthetics

    Respondent: Amanda McMillan Lequieu

  • February 18, 12:00 pm

    Lama Elsharif

    Small Wars of Scarcity: North African Corsairs in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

    Respondent: Jeremy Steinberg

  • February 25, 12:00 pm

    Jennifer Reiss

    Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America

    Respondent: Michael G. Hanchard

  • March 4, 12:00 pm

    Maryam Athari

    Nodes of Connectivity: Jahani and Iranian Modernism's Worldly Belonging

    Respondent: Jacob Myers

  • March 18, 12:00 pm

    Jeremy Steinberg

    How the Bible Became Literature: Jewish Assumptions About the Nature of Text in the Hellenistic Period

    Respondent: Francesca Ammon

  • March 25, 12:00 pm

    Seçil Yilmaz

    Undoing Bastards: Of Polygamy, Kinship, and Family in Modern Turkey

    Respondent: Shannon Walters

  • April 1, 12:00 pm

    Usmon Boron

    Toward an Ethics of Friendship: Tablighi Jamaat in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

    Respondent: Whitney Trettien

  • April 8, 12:00 pm

    Juan Suárez Ontaneda

    Palimpsests of Blackness: Staging Race in the Afro-Latin American Performances of Nascimento, Zapata Olivella, and Santa Cruz

    Respondent: Sebastián Gil-Riaño

  • April 15, 12:00 pm

    Angelina Eimannsberger

    Trivial Pursuits: Women Readers, Materialist Feminism, and a New Life of Bookishness in the Twenty-First Century

    Respondent: Charlotte Kiechel

  • April 22, 12:00 pm

    Charlotte Kiechel

    Anticolonial Comparisons: The Politics of Decolonization and Holocaust Memory

    Respondent: Lisa Mitchell

  • April 29, 12:00 pm

    Closing Discussion

 

 

Past Seminars

  • September 10, 12:00 pm

    Welcome and Introductions

  • 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

    Amanda McMillan Lequieu

    Keywords of Disposability: Sacrifice Zones and the Translation of Modern Social Problems

    Respondent: Bakirathi Mani

  • October 1, 12:00 pm

    Job Market Workshop

    Seçil Yilmaz and Sebastián Gil-Riaño

  • October 8, 12:00 pm

    Jacob Myers

    Noxious Life: Figuring Vermin in the Natural Histories of the British Caribbean

    Respondent: Lama Elsharif

  • October 15, 12:00 pm

    Paniz Musawi Natanzi

    Masculinities, Labor and Race: The War Mode of Art Production in Afghanistan

    Respondent: Seçil Yilmaz

  • October 22, 12:00 pm

    Francesca Russello Ammon

    Preserving the City: Urban Renewal and Conservation in Society Hill, Philadelphia

    Respondent: Juan Suárez Ontaneda

  • October 29, 12:00 pm

    Shannon Walters

    Paranormal Rhetorics: Disability Magic and Crip Glamour

    Respondent: Angelina Eimannsberger

  • November 12, 12:00 pm

    Whitney Trettien

    From Type to .txt: The Origins of Data

    Respondent: Usmon Boron

  • November 19, 12:00 pm

    Sebastían Gil-Riaño

    Capturing the Aché: Violence, Indigeneity, and Modernization in the Human Sciences during the Cold War

    Respondent: Maryam Athari

  • December 3, 12:00 pm

    Bakirathi Mani

    Diaspora, Race, and Representation in the Family Album Archive

    Respondent: Jennifer Reiss