Autumn 2021
October 11 | Brandon Sward
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago
“How to make site-specific art when sites themselves have histories: Whittier Boulevard as Asco’s ‘camino surreal’”
October 25 | Srikanth Reddy
Professor, Department of English at the University of Chicago
“Wonder, A Syzygy: A Poetics of Wonder in The Iliad, Paradise Lost, and Radi Os”
November 8 | Isabel Lachenauer
PhD Candidate, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago
“Mirror Characters as Windows into the Emotional Community of ʿĀrif ʿAlī”
November 15 | Eos Trinidad
PhD Student, Departments of Sociology and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago
“The Irony of Accountability: How a Performance-Inducing Policy Reduces Motivation to Perform”
Winter 2022
January 31 | Alysia Mann Carey
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago and Pre-doctoral fellow at the Woodsen Institue for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia
“Black Diasporic Feminism and Collective Intimacy: a Hemispheric Approach to Contemporary Black Politics and Mobilization in the Americas”
February 7 | Maïté Marciano
PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature at Northwestern University
“From Sexuality to Cerebrality: Post-humanism, Affect, and Subjectivity in Houellebecq’s Les Particules élementaires”
February 21 | David Cantor-Echols
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
“Fear and Loathing in Late Medieval Iberia”
March 7 | Blaize Gervais
PhD Candidate in Ethics, University of Chicago Divinity School
“Perspectival Objectivity: In Defense of the “Affective Turn” in Epistemology”
Spring 2022
April 25 | Ilqua Lutfi
PhD Student, Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago
“Intimacy, Hygiene, and Domestic Labor Relations in Karachi”
May 2 | Ben Jeffery
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
“Grief is a Troubled Medium: Reading Housekeeping through Loewald”
May 9 | David L. Eng
Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Workshop of work from forthcoming book: Reparations and the Human
May 16 | Bellamy Mitchell
PhD Candidate, Department of English and Department of Social Thought at the University of Chicago
“The Danger of the Situation, or, the Indexical Present of Apology in the Performance Artwork of Adrian Piper and Dr. Vaginal Davis”
May 23 | Seth Estrin
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History at the University of Chicago
“Between Pity and Rage: Emotion and Archaic Greek Sculpture”