Today, Jeju Island is best known for “its booming tourism, its hardy diving women, and its lush orange groves” (John Merrill).  Touted as a romantic honeymoon destination and lucrative site for foreign investment, Jeju is, however, far from a paradise.  Prior to June 25, 1950, the purported start of the Korean War, Jeju, deemed a […]

The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor, History and Comparative Gender & Sexuality University of Utah: Nadja Durbach Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show While scholars have examined the display of non-Western peoples at Victorian exhibitions, and noted that many of the “cannibals” and “savages” who performed were actually fakes, none […]

Gildas Hamel Professor Hamel is working on a history of religious representations in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and the notion of monotheism. He examines recent histories of monolatry and monotheism and accounts of religious mediations, asking whether monotheism can be explained as a response to the Babylonian and Persian empires, or as an episode in […]

Lisa Jean Moore, medical sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York, will present a talk based on her recent book Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility. We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds

Eugene Switkes Scientists and humanists have found common interests in understanding correlations between neural events and complex human behavior. Over the past 30 years we have studied how aspects of human visual perception arise from neural processes that occur in the anatomical substrates of human vision. Professor Switkes discusses how understanding the brain’s recoding of […]

Rei Terada In his late writings, Pasolini claims to give up on Italian politics and his own erstwhile projects. The talk considers Pasolini's “repudiation” and the questions of periodization it raises. Professor Terada is the author of Derek Walcott’s Poetry: American Mimicry (Northeastern, 1992); Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject” (Harvard, […]

Recipients of the 2010-2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards recipients and their writing teachers will be honored. Don Rothman Adam Beighley, for Twin Forces of a Wave” (Maggie Amis) AND Sarah Edelstein, for “’Til Death Do We Choose” (Kiva Silver) Honorable Mentions: Briana Bernstein, for "Freud’s Model of Civilization and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four" (Brij Lunine) Kerianne […]

Juliana Schiesari Professor Schiesari is working on the relation between humanism and the post-human by rethinking the human and non-human as they are constructed in the Italian Renaissance. Her recent publications include Beasts and Beauties: Animals, Gender and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance (Toronto, 2010) and Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies and Desire in Four Modern […]