GHF Research Seminar and Special Events
2004–2005

Fall, 2004
All sessions meet at 12:00 noon at the
Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk


October 1: Inventing English Literature
Sean Keilen, Associate Professor, English

October 8: Nick Montfort, ABD, Engineering and English

October 15: Excess Wakefulness and Wake State Instability
Hans Van Dongen, Research Associate Professor, Psychiatry, School of Medicine

October 22: Queer Feelings
Heather Love, Assistant Professor, English

November 5: Research Lunch with PHF Undergraduate Humanities Forum Fellows

November 12: Mimesis and Its Discontents
Peter Struck, Assistant Professor, Classics

November 18 (Thursday, 4–6:30p)
Graduate Student Colloquium
Manuscripts Culture: Teaching and Research
with Archival Materials

December 3: Deconstructing Castro
Dierdra Reber, ABD, Hispanic Studies

December 10: Japanese Sleep Culture, Brigitte Steger, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Penn Humanities Forum

Spring, 2005

January 14: Copyright Law and the Media, Peter Decherney, Assistant Professor, English and Film Studies

January 21: Dreams and the Creative Process, Carol Muller, Associate Professor of Music

January 25: Academic Writing for Graduate Students, Session I: Academic Publishing, Lunchtime Conversation with Gordon Hutner

February 4: Science, Gender and Status in a Seventeenth-century Murder Trial, Julia Rudolph, Assistant Professor, History

February 11: Academic Writing for Graduate Students, Session II: Publishing for Graduate Students

February 18: Murat’s Magic Wand: Politics, Politesse, and Bedtime Stories in the grand siècle, Ellen Welch, ABD, Comp Lit

February 25: Mechanism, Finalism, and the Science of Life in the Seventeenth Century
Karen Detlefsen, Assistant Professor, Philosophy

March 4: Sleep and Dreams
Fifth Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference

March 18: Autobiography and Self-Representation in the Writings of Sophie Mereau, Anika Kiehne, ABD, German

March 25: Undergraduate Humanities Forum Conference

April 1: History, Image and Repetition: From 19C Painting to Stalinist Film
Kevin Platt, Professor, Slavic Languages

April 8: Aditya Behl, Associate Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

April 15: Self-Protection and Liberal Citizenship
Katherine Henry, English, Temple

April 21 : Mike Laver, ABD, East Asian Studies

 
 

GHF Main

2004-2005
SPECIAL COLLOQUIA
Interdisciplinarity
September 15, 2004

Manuscript Culture
November 18, 2004

Academic Writing for
Graduate Students

January 25 & February 11


2005 GHF Salons
4:00 tea with faculty
March 24
April 13
details tba


Fifth Annual GHF Conference
Thursday, March 3, 2005
Collecting the Unconscious
Reflections on Sleep & Dreams