The IPRH has organized more than 175 panel discussions, lectures, and other events during its ten-year history. The current year’s plans can be found on the calendar of events, here, with more to be added as the year goes on; below is a representative sample of events the IPRH has coordinated since 1997.
Events coordinated as part of the IPRH arts initiatives are listed separately, here.
2006-2007
Panels –
The Future of Area Studies at the U of I
Jews and Muslims in France: Love and Conflict in La Petite Jérusalem
Iran between Revolution and Reaction
Thomas Pynchon: Race and Unreliable Narration
The Place of Anthropology in the World Today
On Photography Now: A Panel on Contemporary Art
The Future of the Latin American Left
The Future of the Library
Other events –
Danielle Allen, University of Chicago, “Inside the Odyssey Project”
Crafting a Fellowship/Grant Proposal for the Humanities workshop (with the Graduate College)
2005-2006
Panels –
Mass Culture and Modernist Studies
The Place of the Arts in the 21st Century Academy
The Local and the Global in Ousmane Sembene’s Moolaadé
Is Paris Burning? Understanding the Unrest
The Anxious Monograph: A Report on Book Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Labor and the Humanities
Does the Nation Still Matter? Writing Histories for the 21st Century
Globalization and Literature: A Conversation with Richard Powers and Bruce Robbins
Globalizing Abu Ghraib
Power and Solidarity: Women of Color and 20th Century Social Movements
Other events –
Spectacles of the Real: Truth and Representation in Art and Literature
One initiative, two exhibits, three panels. . .This ambitious collaboration between the IPRH and OPENSOURCE art produced two simultaneous group exhibits of art by campus, local, and international artists, as well as panel discussions on Politics of the Real, Aesthetics of the Real, and Literatures of the Real. Panelists included U of I faculty from the arts and humanities, as well as visiting speakers Lawrence R. Rinder (California College of the Arts/Whitney Museum of American Art) and Hamza Walker (Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago).
Crafting a Fellowship/Grant Proposal for the Humanities workshop (with the Graduate College)
2004-2005
Panels –
The New Anti-Semitism
The Tasks of Feminist Theory
The Future of the Study of Foreign Literatures
The Task of the Literary Critic
The Future of Radical Politics
The Ethics of Stem Cells
Global Fundamentalisms
The Corporate Humanities
21st Century Bodies
The Future of Ethnic Studies at UIUC
Creativity: The Passion for Process
Other events –
The Future of the Humanities
This discussion, held at Foellinger Auditorium, featured Stanley Fish (English, University of Illinois at Chicago), E. Ann Kaplan (The Humanities Institute, SUNY-Stony Brook), and Cary Nelson (English, U of I).
Adam Pendleton, conceptual artist (New York)
As part of the three-day visit by Adam Pendleton, the IPRH hosted the installation “Being Here,”
including live webcasts on WILL-TV-AM/FM, class visits, and three panel discussions featuring Pendleton and U of I faculty members: Queer Art, Black Art, and Conceptual Art.
Paul Campos (Law, University of Colorado)
This three-day visit by Paul Campos, author of The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health, featured class visits, a public lecture titled “Ask Your Doctor if Cultural Hysteria is Right For You: The Politics of ‘Obesity,’” and two panel discussions featuring Campos, U of I faculty members, and visiting scholars: The Weight of the Media and The Racialized Construction of Fat.
Crafting a Fellowship/Grant Proposal for the Humanities workshop (with the Graduate College)
2003-2004
Panels –
The Challenge of Creationism
Rethinking the Emeritus
War Crimes, Restitution, Reconciliation
Edward Said
Yann Martel, The Life of Pi, and the World of Religion
Israel/Palestine: An Assessment
Religion and Modernity
Turkey Between East and West
Gizmos, Gadgets, and Googling: Living in the Digital Age
The Anniversary of the Iraq War
A More Perfect Union? The Debate on Gay Marriage
The Pleasures of Literature
The Future of the Socialist Past – A Conversation with Slavoj Žižek
Other events –
“Culture Talk”
Steven Pinker (Psychology, Harvard University), Nancy Cantor (Chancellor), and Jesse Delia (Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) – co-sponsored by Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Center for Advanced Study, and College of Fine and Applied Arts
Steven Pinker lecture – “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”– co-sponsored by the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Carlo Rotella, Boston College, “An Education at the Fights” (with the Center for Advanced Study)
2002-2003
Panels –
A Dialogue Across Differences: Maya Angelou and Emily Dickinson
A Critical Celebration of Maya Angelou
The Politics of Textual Reproduction in Seventeenth Century England
The Future of the Holocaust
Fieldwork across the Disciplines
Old Europe/New Europe: A Panel on the Geopolitics of the Contemporary Moment
Other events –
Laura Lunger Knoppers, Penn State University, “(Re)producing the Apocalyptic Monstrous: Oliver Cromwell and the Whore of Babylon”
Achsah Guibbory, U of I, “’The Jewish Question’ and ‘the Woman Question’ in Milton’s Samson Agonistes: The Web of Gender, Religion, and Nation”
John Tagg, Binghamton University, “The Violence of Meaning”
Bradley Epps, Harvard University, “The Blankness of Dalí; or, Forging Catalonia”
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida, “Terror and Trauma in America: Confederate Conspiracies and Lincoln’s Assassination”
Johannes Fabian, University of Amsterdam, “Forgetting Africa”
James Mandrell, Brandeis University, “Shania Twain and ‘Queer’ Country Music”
Charles Joyner, Coastal Carolina University, “Furl That Banner”
Kenneth Harrow, Michigan State University, “African Cinema: The Play of Surfaces, The In-Depth Analysis”
2001-2002
Panels –
Spectral Images: Film and the Representation(s) of History
Postcolonial Theory across the Disciplines
The Global Media and the War on Terrorism
Speaker series –
Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College, “Jewish Studies and Counterhistory: Multiculturalism and the Jews”
Jo Labanyi, University of London, “History and hauntology, or what does one do with ghosts of the past? A spectral reading of late twentieth-century Spanish culture”
Toby Miller, New York University, “Burn, Burn, Burn – The Rings of Fire: A Social Postmortem on the Olympics”
Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago, “The Polynesian War, with Apologies to Thucydides”
2000-2001
Panels –
Komar and Melamid: From Sots Art to Eco-Collaboration with Animals
Exploring “Science” and “Humanism”: A Lecture Series in the Philosophy of the Human Science – a four-part series with follow-up brown-bag discussions
Humanizing medicine and medicalizing the humanities: Can the humanities save us from managed care?
Anthropology and Literary Studies: Are We Post-Colonial Yet?
The Future of Israel and Palestine
Other events –
Sam Gustman, Executive Director of Technology, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, seminar on the Holocaust and memory
1999-2000
Panels –
Experimental Writing Today
Crossing the Great Divide? A Panel on the Rapprochement of History and Anthropology
Speaker Series –
Norma Alarcón, University of California, Berkeley, “Postmodern Malinches: The Making of a Chicana Political Imaginary” (with Latina/o Studies)
Marcia Tucker, Founding Director, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, “The Good, the Bad, and the Totally Unacceptable: The Contemporary Art Museum at the End of the Millennium”
David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Just Filling Space: The Death and Rebirth of Cinematic Staging”
1998-1999
Speaker Series –
Bruce Robbins, Rutgers University, “The Village of the Liberal Managerial Class” (with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory)
Daryl Michael Scott, Columbia University, “Subjects and Citizens: Racial Order in the Late Nineteenth Century South”
Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University, “Democracy and Foreignness”
Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “De-Globalizing Globalization”
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago, “Feminist Internationalism: In Defense of Universal Value”
Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research, “Social Justice in an Age of Identity Politics” (with the Philosophy Department and MillerComm)
Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley, “The Entwinement of the Ways: How Christianity and Judaism Converged in Late Antiquity”
1997-1998
Panel –
The Two Nations of Black America
Speaker Series –
Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Black Bodies in White Space: Rodney King and the Fugitive (Slave)”
Jewell Parker Rhodes, Arizona State University, “MAGIC CITY: Re- imagining the Racial Gulf”
Rita Felski, University of Virginia, “Gender and the Invention of Everyday Life”
Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine, “Digital and Analogue Authors”
Jon Stratton, Curtin University, Australia, “(Dis)placing the Jews: Historicizing the Idea of Diaspora”
Ien Ang, University of West Sydney, Australia, “Chineseness and Cultural Identity”
Laura Kipnis, Northwestern University, “All That I Perceive Offends Me: Aesthetics in an Age of Desublimation” |