Autumn 2021
Monday, October 11, 4:30-6pm CT, remote via Zoom
Brandon Sward, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
“How to make site-specific art when sites themselves have histories:
Whittier Boulevard as Asco’s ‘camino surreal’”
Monday, October 25, 4:30-6pm CT, in-person, location TBC
Srikanth Reddy, Professor, Department of English
“Wonder, A Syzygy:
A Poetics of Wonder in The Iliad, Paradise Lost, and Radi Os”
Monday, November 8, 4:30-6pm CT, remote via Zoom
Isabel Lachenauer, PhD Candidate, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
“Mirror Characters as Windows into the Emotional Community of ʿĀrif ʿAlī”
Monday, November 15, 4:30-6pm CT, in-person, location TBC
Eos Trinidad, PhD Student, Departments of Sociology and Comparative Human Development
“The Irony of Accountability:
How a Performance-Inducing Policy Reduces Motivation to Perform”
Winter 2022
January 31, 4:30-6pm CT, via Zoom
Alysia Mann Carey, PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago, Department of Political Science and Pre-doctoral fellow at the Woodson Institute 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, 4:30—6PM CT, Postponed
Maïté Marciano, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, Northwestern University
“From Sexuality to Cerebrality: Post-humanism, Affect, and Subjectivity in Houellebecq’s Les Particules élementaires”
February 21, 4:30—6PM CT, on Zoom
David Cantor-Echols, Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
“Fear and Loathing in Late Medieval Iberia”
March 7, 4:30-6:00pm CT, via Zoom
Blaize Gervais, PhD Candidate in Ethics, University of Chicago Divinity School
Perspectival Objectivity: In Defense of the “Affective Turn” in Epistemology
Spring 2022
April 25th, 4:30—6:00PM CT, Wieboldt Hall 408
Ilqua Lufti, PhD Student, Comparative Human Development
“Intimacy, Hygiene, and Domestic Labor Relations in Karachi”
May 2nd, 4:30—6:00PM CT, Wieboldt Hall 408
Ben Jeffery; Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
“Grief is a Troubled Medium: Reading Housekeeping through Loewald.”
May 9th, 4:30—6:00PM CT, on Zoom
Visit of David L. Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Workshop of Work from Forthcoming Book: Reparations and the Human
May 16th, 4:30—6:00PM CT, Wieboldt Hall 408
Bellamy Mitchell; PhD Candidate, English and Social Thought
“The Danger of the Situation, or, the Indexical Present of Apology in the Performance Artwork of Adrian Piper and Dr. Vaginal Davis”
May 23, 4:30—6:00PM CT, Wieboldt Hall 408
Seth Estrin; Assistant Professor, Department of Art History
“Between Pity and Rage: Emotion and Archaic Greek Sculpture.”