2023-2024
Wolf Humanities Center on Revolution

Mellon Research Seminar

  • September 19, 2023

    Huda Fakhreddine
    Poetry as Agitation
    Respondent: Rahul Mukherjee

  • October 3, 2023

    Job Market Workshop

  • October 17, 2023

    Sylvia Houghtelling
    Perishability, the Industrial Revolution, and the Duration of Materials

  • October 24, 2023

    Allison Brooks-Conrad
    Zhenskaya Muzika: Gender, Labor, and Music in the Underground and the Apartment during Late Soviet Socialism
    Respondent: Akira Rodriguez

  • October 31, 2023

    José Carlos Díaz Zanelli
    The Insurgent Veins of Indigenismo: Towards an Indigenous Decolonial Critique
    Respondent: Paloma Checa-Gismero

  • November 14, 2023

    Kirby Sokolow
    Buddhist Exceptionalism Behind Bars: Transforming Race, Religion, and Power
    Respondent: Timothy Malone

  • November 28, 2023

    Gregory Goulding
    Cold War Genres: Local and International in Hindi Literary Culture, 1940–1980
    Respondent: Ahmad Qais Munhazim

  • December 5, 2023

    Jasmine Henry
    The Right to Rave: Resistance, Revolution, and the Black Feminist Imagination in Electronic Dance Music
    Respondent: Alessandra Amin

  • January 23, 2024

    Rawad Wehbe
    Khaḍramah: The Structure and Form of Feeling at the Threshold of Islam
    Respondent: Jasmine Henry

  • January 30, 2024

    Paloma Checa-Gismero
    Curating Slow Revolutions: Socially Engaged Art in the Contemporary Art Institution
    Respondent: Kirby Sokolow

  • February 6, 2024

    Melissa Reynolds
    Looking Elsewhere: Bodily Encounters in the Early Modern World
    Respondent: Sylvia Houghtelling

  • February 13, 2024

    Open Discussion

  • February 27, 2024

    Akira Rodriguez
    Seeding the Plot: Black Women Architects of 20th Century US Social Movements
    Respondent: Rawad Webhe

  • March 12, 2024

    Alex Kreger
    "Nurhak, The Sun Will Never Rise Upon You": Revolutionary Ethics and Messianic Sufism in Rural Southeast Turkey
    Respondent: Gregory Goulding

  • March 19, 2024

    Ahmad Qais Munhazim
    Queer Afghanistan: Everyday Politics from Home to Diasporas
    Respondent: José Carlos Díaz Zanelli

  • March 26, 2024

    Rahul Mukherjee
    Data Revolution
    Respondent: Alex Kreger

  • April 2, 2024

    Alessandra Amin
    Mother Figure: Art and the Palestinian Dream-State, 1965-1982
    Respondent: Jennifer Ponce de León

  • April 9, 2024

    Timothy Malone
    The Carceral Death Machine: Savagery, Contagion and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Prison
    Respondent: Rita Barnard

  • April 16, 2024

    Josué Chávez
    Abject Comportments: Financial Experiments and Artistic Form in Contemporary Central America, 1970-2022
    Respondent: Steph Doktor

  • April 23, 2024

    Jennifer Ponce de León
    Imperialism, Internationalism, Revolution: Art and Politics across the Americas
    Respondent: Allison Brooks-Conrad

  • April 30, 2024

    Closing Discussion