Graduate Humanities Forum
A program for graduate students and their invited guests.

Spring 2006

Tuesday, January 17, 4:30p
Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk
Advertising the Image. Appealing to the Audience
A Conversation Across Contexts
In what ways are audiences created and targeted—homosexuals and heterosexuals, in Asia and the U.S., in the 20th and 21st centuries?
Join us for a moderated roundtable discussion and Q&A with guest panelists:
Jina Kim, Lecturer, Korean Language and Literature
Katherine Sender, Assistant Professor of Communication
Wendy Steiner, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English

February 13, 7:30-9:30p
Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk
Margaret Garner: The Staging of History
University of Pennsylvania scholars Lawrence D. Blum, M.D., Thadious Davis, and Gary Tomlinson examine the historical, psychological, literary, and musical themes surrounding the opera Margaret Garner. Panel moderator: Kelly Reid, M.D., Faculty, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

February 16 & 17
GHF Sixth Annual Conference: Visual Dialogues
Keynote by Michael Fried, 2/17, 5:30pm
"Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein, and the Everyday

Friday, March 24, 3:00 - 6:00 pm
Film and Pedagogy III: Workshop
401 Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3340 Walnut Street
The Cinema Studies Program and the Graduate Humanities Forum
are pleased to offer their third workshop on film and pedagogy featuring Penn Cinema Studies faculty:
Karen Beckman: Theory and Research in the Cinema Studies Classroom
Timothy Corrigan: Film and/as/against Literature
Peter Decherney: Using Images in the Film History Lecture
John Lessard: Literature, Film Studies, and the Academic Job Market
Graduate students and faculty are welcome to attend. This workshop fulfills the attendance requirement at one of two workshops for the graduate certificate in cinema studies. Click here for more information. Free and open to the public.


Fall 2005

September 15, Open House, 4:00 - 6:00p
How You Think About What You See: Ethics and Museum
A Conversation with Experts in the Field

Friday, October 7th, 12:00 noon
Urban Tree: A Documentary on Urban Renewal in West Philadelphia
Zach Yorke, MFA Candidate, School of Design

Friday, October 14th, 12:00 noon
Images of Song and Cues for Singing in Medieval Manuscripts
Jennifer Saltzstein, Doctoral Candidate, Music

Friday, October 21st, 12:00 noon
A Southerner of a Different Stripe: Robert Penn Warren
and Government Creation of Liberal Opposition to
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kristina Baumli, Doctoral Candidate, English

Friday, October 28th, 12:00 noon
Monuments and Memory—A Roundtable Discussion
Ann Kuttner, Associate Professor of History of Art
Max Cavitch, Assistant Professor of English
Erica Tapp, Doctoral Candidate, History of Art
Moderator: Kathryn O’Rourke, Doctoral Candidate, History of Art

Friday, November 4th, 12:00 noon
Authenticity in the Age of Global Markets: Evidence
from the Handicraft Markets of Thailand and Costa Rica
Frederick F. Wherry, PhD, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology, Penn

Friday, November 11th, 12:00 noon
Starving Artists and the Institutions that Feed Them. A Panel on the Arts, Media, and Funding
Jena Osman, Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing, Temple University
M. Ho, artist and 2005 Pew Fellow
Beck Feibelman, Doctoral Candidate, History of Art, Penn

Monday, November 14th, 5:00p
'Getting the Picture': Image Publication and Copyright
Peter Decherney, Assistant Professor of English and Media Studies, Penn
Eric Halpern, Director, Penn Press
Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of History of Art, Penn

Friday December 2
Urban Tree Connection
Skip Wiener, Founder & Executive Director, Urban Tree Connection