| I P RH C a l e n da r of E v e n ts a n d De a d l i n es 2009-10 |
September
November
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Mary Beth Rose (Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago) 4:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall The Dead Mother Plot: The Family and Authority in Early Modern Texts
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Julie Cruikshank (Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver) 7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in America’s Far Northwest
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IPRH Film Series – Brazil followed by gallery conversation in conjunction with the Krannert Art Museum exhibit Under Control 5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62
IPRH Fall Reception 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
11 NEH Summer Stipend application deadline, 5:00 p.m. Application guidelines can be found on the IPRH website. 17 IPRH Film Series – The Truman Show 5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62 21
Faculty Grant/Fellowship Workshop 4:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall Participants: Dianne Harris, Christine Catanzarite, Lori Williamson (Institutional Advancement), Nancy Abelmann (Associate Vice Chancellor for Research)
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Graduate Student Grant/Fellowship Workshop 5:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall Participants: Dianne Harris, Christine Catanzarite, Deborah Richie (Graduate College), Ken Vickery (Graduate College)
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Roundtable: Conceptualizing/Theorizing Catastrophe (co-sponsored by the Department of History and the IPRH) 4:00 p.m., 307 Greg Hall Participants: Spencer Weart (History of Physics, American Institute of Physics), Paula Treichler (Institute of Communications Research, U of I), Gillen Wood (English, U of I), Peter Fritzsche (History, U of I), Mark Micale (English, U of I)
October 8
Irit Rogoff (Professor of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London) 7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor Additional information about this event can be found on the IPRH website.
15 IPRH Film Series – A Face in the Crowd 5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62 22
Johanna Drucker (Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles) Co-sponsored by the IPRH and the Illinois Informatics Institute 7:30 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall Format and Function: The legacy of the book in the design of information spaces
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Panel Discussion: Virtual Worlds: The Business and Recreation of Gaming Culture 4:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall Panelists: Guy Garnett (Music/Illinois Informatics Institute, U of I), Kevin Hamilton (Art and Design, U of I), Lisa Nakamura (Asian American Studies/Institute of Communications Research, U of I) Moderator: Mimi Thuy Nguyen (Asian American Studies/Gender and Women’s Studies, U of I)
29 IPRH Film Series – The Great Dictator 5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62
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December 2
IPRH Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowship application deadline 5:00 p.m. Guidelines can be found on pages 18 and 19.
February 1
IPRH Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships Announced
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Andrew Light (Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Director of the Center for Global Ethics, George Mason University) 7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center Ethics and Climate Change
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Carolyn Merchant (Professor of Environmental History, University of California, Berkeley) 7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor Melting Ice: Climate Change and the Humanities
March 1
Anne Enke (Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Co-sponsored by the IPRH and Gender and Women’s Studies 5:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall Carded at the Door: Contested Space and the Consolidation of the Feminist Subject
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Robert Nixon (Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison) 7:30 p.m., IPRH, Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor Slow Violence and the Drama Deficit of Climate Change
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Jake Kosek (Associate Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley) 7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor The Nature of the Beast: On Honeybees and the Biopolitics of Terror
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IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities application/nomination deadline 5:00 p.m. Guidelines can be found on page 17.