Mellon Research Seminar
Forum on Revolution, 2023-2024
Wolf Humanities Center's Mellon Research Seminars are open to invited guests only.
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October 3,
12:00 pm
Job Market Workshop
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October 10,
12:00 pm
Stephanie Doktor
Reconstructing Whiteness: Racial Economies of Early Jazz
Respondent: Melissa Reynolds -
October 17,
12:00 pm
Sylvia Houghtelling
Perishability, the Industrial Revolution, and the Duration of Materials
Respondent: Alex Royt -
October 24,
12:00 pm
Allison Brooks-Conrad
Zhenskaya Muzika: Gender, Labor, and Music in the Underground and the Apartment during Late Soviet Socialism
Respondent: Akira Rodriguez -
October 31,
12:00 pm
José Carlos Díaz Zanelli
The Insurgent Veins of Indigenismo: Towards an Indigenous Decolonial Critique
Respondent: Paloma Checa-Gismero -
November 14,
12:00 pm
Kirby Sokolow
Buddhist Exceptionalism Behind Bars: Transforming Race, Religion, and Power
Respondent: Timothy Malone -
November 28,
12:00 pm
Gregory Goulding
Cold War Genres: Local and International in Hindi Literary Culture, 1940–1980
Respondent: Ahmad Qais Munhazim -
December 5,
12:00 pm
Jasmine Henry
The Right to Rave: Resistance, Revolution, and the Black Feminist Imagination in Electronic Dance Music
Respondent: Alessandra Amin -
January 23,
12:00 pm
Rawad Wehbe
Khaḍramah: The Structure and Form of Feeling at the Threshold of Islam
Respondent: Jasmine Henry -
January 30,
12:00 pm
Paloma Checa-Gismero
Curating Slow Revolutions: Socially Engaged Art in the Contemporary Art Institution
Respondent: Alex Kreger -
February 6,
12:00 pm
Melissa Reynolds
Looking Elsewhere: Bodily Encounters in the Early Modern World
Respondent: Sylvia Houghtelling -
February 13,
12:00 pm
Alex Royt
A Socialist Financial Revolution: Debt and Violence in the Soviet Union 1917-1941
Respondent: Huda Fakhreddine -
February 27,
12:00 pm
Akira Rodriguez
Seeding the Plot: Black Women Architects of 20th Century US Social Movements
Respondent: Rawad Webhe -
March 12,
12:00 pm
Alex Kreger
"Nurhak, The Sun Will Never Rise Upon You": Revolutionary Ethics and Messianic Sufism in Rural Southeast Turkey
Respondent: Gregory Goulding -
March 19,
12:00 pm
Ahmad Qais Munhazim
Queer Afghanistan: Everyday Politics from Home to Diasporas
Respondent: José Carlos Díaz Zanelli -
March 26,
12:00 pm
Rahul Mukherjee
Data Revolution
Respondent: Kirby Sokolow -
April 2,
12:00 pm
Alessandra Amin
Mother Figure: Art and the Palestinian Dream-State, 1965-1982
Respondent: Jennifer Ponce de León -
April 9,
12:00 pm
Josué Chávez
Abject Comportments: Financial Experiments and Artistic Form in Contemporary Central America, 1970-2022
Respondent: Stephanie Doktor -
April 16,
12:00 pm
Timothy Malone
The Carceral Death Machine: Savagery, Contagion and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Prison
Respondent: Rita Barnard -
April 23,
12:00 pm
Jennifer Ponce de León
Imperialism, Internationalism, Revolution: Art and Politics across the Americas
Respondent: Allison Brooks-Conrad -
April 30,
12:00 pm
Closing Discussion
Past Seminars
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September 12,
12:00 pm
Welcome and Introductions
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September 19,
12:00 pm
Huda Fakhreddine
Poetry as Agitation
Respondent: Rahul Mukherjee -
September 26,
12:00 pm
Rita Barnard
The Aesthetics of Transition: On South Africa's Staggered Revolution
Respondent: Josué Chávez