2007-2008 GHF Executive Committee
• Joseph Benatov, Comp Lit
• Claire Taylor Jones, Comp Lit
• Adrian Khactu, English
• Erik Mathisen*, History
• Sarah Van Buerden, History
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Graduate Humanities Forum
Calendar
To speak of origins in the humanities is to speak in spirals. In the absence of
some cause-and-effect model of explanation—long since ceded to certain
precincts of science—the humanities often broach the concept of origins as
ever-absent historical provocations.
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Art Exhibition
February 4–29, 2008 |
Fox Gallery, Logan Hall
Closing Reception: Friday, February 29, 5–7pm
Conceived as the visual counterpart of the Graduate Humanities Forum Conference on Origins, the exhibition presents artwork by 46 artists from the US and abroad.
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October 23, 2007 | 5:00-7:00
3619 Locust Walk
We start with a short
presentation on the origins and early years of rock music.
Then join us for an hour-long swing and jitterbug lesson led by Yau
Ng and Sanja Benak of the Penn Latin and Ballroom Dance Club. Come
learn how they danced at the origins of rock!
What We Can Learn about Globalization from Starbucks and Teens
in Singapore
, Temple University
October 9, 2007 | 5:00-7:00
3619 Locust Walk
Bryant Simon is a Professor of History at Temple University. He is the author of A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948, which
examined the history of workers and their ideas about politics in 1930s South
Carolina, and Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America.
He has also co-edited a collection of essays entitled ‘Jumping Jim Crow’:
Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Currently, he is working on a
project that focuses on public spaces and public culture in the United States
and across the globe in the 21st century: a study of Starbucks and the making
(and distribution of) coffee house culture.
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