All are welcome to the workshop.

Please email Jessie Alperin (alperinj@uchicago.edu) if you have any questions or require accommodations to participate.

Winter Quarter 2025

All workshops will meet in Campus North 154 at 5:15 PM on the Thursdays listed below.

The entrance to the building is to the right of Fairgrounds Coffee Shop.

The workshop is a peanut-free event to accommodate a serious allergy. Please do not bring any products containing peanuts to the workshop.

 

January 30

“The Will of Nature: The Imagination of the City in Measure for Measure”

Benjamin W K Jeffery

Society of Fellows and Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Respondent: Magnus Ferguson

Society of Fellows, University of Chicago

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February 27

“Dissociative Narrating and Vigilant Reading in W.G. Sebald”

Yun Ha Kim

PhD Candidate, Germanic Studies, University of Chicago

Respondent: Catriona Macleod

Vice Provost for the Arts; Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the College and the Department of Germanic Studies

Society of Fellows, University of Chicago

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March 6

“Towards a Poetics of Passivity: Stanley Cavell’s Philosophy of Film”

Sam Lee

PhD Candidate, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

Respondent: Daniel Morgan

Director of Graduate Studies; Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College

Society of Fellows, University of Chicago

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