Tuesdays, 12:00 – 2:00

Open to PHF Mellon Faculty Research Fellows and invited guests only.

Spring 2008

January 22 | Amanda Weidman
The Female Voice in Tamil Cinema

January 29 | Patricia D'Antonio
Nursing in 19th Century Philadelphia

February 5 | Tanya Kevorkian
The Social History of Baroque Music in Germany

February 12 | Ralph Rosen
Ancient Greeks on the Origins of Medicine

February 19 | Genevieve Abravanel
Hollywood Film in Modern Britain

February 26 | Lisa Mitchell
Origins and Identities: Colonial Encounters of Linguistic Ideologies

March 4 | Jill Rappaport
New Woman Eugenics

March 11 | No Session, Spring Break

March 18 | Llyd Wells
Conceptions of Life

March 25 | Anthony Raynsford
The Thingness of Things or Aesthetic Authenticity in
Pre-Industrial Urban Form

April 1 | Ellen Scott and Jesse Couenhoven
ES: African American Representation, Its Production, Censorship,
& Reception
JC: The Origins of Evil

April 8 | Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum and Tamara Walker
IPT: Urban Representation of Violence in Contemporary
Carribean Narrative by Women
TW: Legal Status, Social Ties, and the Material Bonds
of Slavery in Lima, Peru

April 15 | Warren Breckman
Uses of ‘Creatio ex nihilo’: Postmodern Revival of a Theological Trope

April 22 | Susanna Gold
Racial Composition and Its Expression in American Visual Media

Fall 2007

September 11 | Welcome & Introductions

September 18 | Gary Tomlinson and Wendy Steiner
Topic Overview

September 25 | Barbara Fuchs
"Maurophilia" and the Early Modern Construction of Spain

October 2 | Michael Gamer
Waverly and the Object of (Literary) History

October 9 | Camille Robcis
At the Origins of Society: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis,
and the Prohibition of Incest

October 16 | No Session, Fall Break

October 23 | Mark Doyle
The Origins of Violence in Belfast, 1850–1865

October 30 | H. Rosi Song
The Seduction of Hispanism: A Genealogy

November 6 | Robert Vitalis
The Noble Science of Imperial Administration

November 13 | Graham MacPhee
Feeling English? Towards an Emotionology of Origin

November 20 | Judith Brown
Glamour and Modernist Aesthetics

November 27 | Martha Lucy
Evolution and Representations of the Body in 19th Century France

December 4 | Jack Hinton
Jean-Antoine Houdon and Sculpted Portraits of Benjamin Franklin