Furness stairs


Tuesdays, 12–2pm
Nevil Classroom, Penn Museum
3260 South Street, Philadelphia



Mellon Faculty Research Seminar
2009-2010 Calendar

Open to members and invited guests only.

FALL 2009

15 Sept Welcome & Introductions
22 Sept Alan Baker (Respondent: Wendy Steiner)
Modeling Complex Systems
29 Sept Peter Gaffney (Respondent: Annette Reed)
Connectionism and Ontological Realism
06 Oct Stephen Amico (Respondent: Timothy McCall)
Icon, Comrade, Diva: The Female Superstar in Russian Popular Music
13 Oct Grace Ledbetter (Respondent: Arman Schwartz)
Ballet and the Greeks
20 Oct Rachel Hall (Respondent: Sindhu Revuluri)
The Sound of Numbers: A Tour of Mathematical Music Theory
27 Oct Elly Truitt (Respondent: Jennifer Borland)
Magical Mechanisms: Automata in the Medieval West
03 Nov Deborah Harrold (Respondent: Rupa Viswanath)
Algeria Reconnecting: Cultural and Political Imagination after Civil War
10 Nov Jennifer Hirsh (Respondent: Cynthia Damon)
Transmissions of Fascism: Broadcasting, Bonifica, and the Built Environment
17 Nov Johanna Crane (Respondent: Deborah Harrold)
Disaster, Assistance, Opportunity: AIDS, Science, and Power at the Dawn of Uganda's 'Treatment Era'
24 Nov NO SESSION (Thanksgiving)
01 Dec Rupa Viswanath (Respondent: Andrew Witmer)
Historical Foundations of Indian Secularism: The Administration of "Untouchables" in Colonial Madras
08 Dec Jeffrey Green (Respondent: Chiara Cillerai)
Reconnecting to the People: Beyond the Metaphorics of the People's Voice
   
SPRING 2010
19 Jan Christopher Nichols (Respondent: Peter Conn)
From Empire to Isolation: Internationalism and Isolationism in American Thought
26 Jan Cam Grey (Respondent: Johanna Crane)
Social Networks Within and Between Rural Communities in the Late Roman World
02 Feb James Salazar (Respondent: Stephen Amico)
Captivating Arabia: Echoes of the Barbary
09 Feb Emily Hage (Respondent: Peter Gaffney)
International Venues of Exchange: Dada Art Journals, 1916-1926
16 Feb Cynthia Damon (Respondent: Philip Sapirstein)
Plinian Layers
23 Feb Jennifer Borland (Respondent: Emily Hage)
Manuscripts on the Move: Medieval Medicine, Artistic Exchange, and the Régime du corps
02 Mar Timothy McCall (Respondent: Jennifer Hirsh)
Art, Gender, and Chivalric Masculinity in Early Renaissance Italy
09 Mar NO SESSION (Spring Break)
16 Mar Chiara Cillerai (Respondent: Christopher Nichols)
The Voices of Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century American Literature
23 Mar Andrew Witmer (Respondent: Heather Sharkey)
God's Interpreters: African Missions, Transnational Protestantism, and Race in the United States, 1830–1910
30 Mar Sindhu Revuluri (Respondent: Arman Schwartz)
Sounding France through Others: Empire in Modernist Musical Thought
06 Apr Annette Reed (Respondent: Cam Grey)
Towards a History of “Jewish-Christianity”: Judaism, the Apostolic Past, and the Pseudo-Clementines
13 April Mara Mills (Respondent: Rachel Hall)
The Dead Room: Deafness and Communication Engineering
20 Apr Heather Sharkey (Respondent: Jeffrey Green)
Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Modern Middle East: Cultures in Contact or Conflict?
27 Apr Conclusion