Center for the Humanities

April 2007
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23 April 2007
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
DeJohn Seminar
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23 April 2007
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Graduate Conference
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20 April 2007
3:30 - 6:00 p.m.
New India Seminar
Abhijat Joshi on Indian Films __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

20 April 2007
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Greek Seminar
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18 April 2007
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
DeJohn Seminar
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17 April 2007
4:45 - 5:15 p.m.
Dean Search - Second Candidate
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17 April 2007
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Spanish Portuguese Reception
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17 April 2007
11:40 - 1:00 p.m.
19th Century Forum
Graduate Student Presentation
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16 April 2007
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Seminar in Social & Political Philosophy
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13 April 2007
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Greek Seminar
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12 April 2007
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Philosophy Colloquium __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

CHAT: April 12, 2007
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Zain Abdullah (Religion) - "Muslims of a Different Color: Islam, Blackness and African Immigrants in Post-9/11 New York

Following the horrific September 11th attack, many Indian Sikhs were killed in American cities because their beards and turbans mistakenly identified them as Muslims. While this dreadful reaction to 9/11 speaks volumes about the urgent need for appropriate responses to terrorism, a striking subtext revealed an American imagination still plagued by orientalist stereotypes of Middle Easterners wearing sinister beards and exotic turbans. Researchers predict that Islam will soon become the second largest religion in America. Yet, while members come from nearly 100 countries, Arabs constitute only about 12 percent. Today, West Africans represent one of the fastest growing populations among American Muslims. Because westerners believe Islam is an Arab faith, however, most ignore the Muslim identity of these black immigrants, even though Islam has been an integral part of West African life for centuries. In a harsh political climate that demonizes Islam, criminalizes inner city ethnics, and penalizes unwanted foreigners, African Muslims challenge prevailing notions about what it means to be Muslim, Black, and African in post-9/11 New York. Join us as we unravel the various strands of this matrix. The talk will include a short film clip to augment our discussion.
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12 April 2007
10:00 - 6:00 p.m.
New India Seminar
Panel on religion and Bollywood film with Rachel Dwyer, School of African and Oriental Studies, London and others _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

11 April 2007
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy
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11 April 2007
3:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Reception to Honour Receipt of Guggenheim; Larry Venuti
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9 April 2007
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Graduate Conference
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6 April 2007
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Greek Seminar
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5 April 2007
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Reception for Patricia White's Talk
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CHAT- April 5, 2007
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Michelle Byng (Sociology, CHAT Faculty Fellow) -"When Clothing Matters: Identity and Veiling among Muslim American Women."

Hijab, the headscarf or veil worn by Muslim women, is symbolic of religious identity, and is often assumed to indicate religiosity. Islam is central to global political events and hijab has taken on political meaning for Muslim women living in Western nations. The symbolic meaning of hijab is constructed by Muslim women and in news stories that describe the political conflicts that surround veiling. This analysis is a preliminary examination of data from qualitative interviews with second generation Muslim American women and articles about veiling that appear in US newspapers. How do Muslim women in the United States construct the meaning of hijab? How does their meaning differ from the images and representations that appear in newspaper stories? From both perspectives – that of Muslim American women and the stories that appear in newspapers – the meaning of veiling is contested and negotiated. Media representations of veiling pose it as a threat to both nationality and assimilation. For Muslim American women wearing hijab is important but not necessarily essential to religious identity, and it doesn’t impinge upon their American identity. The variations in these perspectives demarcate a group boundary that has implications not just for the identity of Muslims in western nations like the US, but also for their social status.

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4 April 2007
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Russell F. Weigley Room, 914 Gladfelter Hall

New India Seminar
Prize-winning novelist and Berkeley professor Vikram Chandra's first Philadelphia reading, conversation, and book signing following the triumphant release of Sacred Games (2006). Chandra’s Midas touch reaches across the genres of short-story, novel, criticism, and film writing
Sponsored by CHAT, Fox School of Business' CIBER and the Dean's Office of the College of Liberal Arts.
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3 April 2007
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Reception: Agent Orange Documentary, The Last Ghost of War

March 2007

30 March 2007
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Philosophy Colloquium
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30 March 2007
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Greek Seminar
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Nineteenth-Century Reproductions, 2006-07 conference:
PERFORMANCE: March 29, 2007

Jonathan Rose (History, Drew University) - “On the Stage of History: The Performative Politics of Winston Churchill"
Alison Winter (History, University of Chicago) - " Sciences of influence, bodily circuits, and the nineteenth-century orchestral conductor"
Respondent: Deirdre David (English, Temple University)
Moderator: Priya Joshi (English, Temple University)

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March 28 and 29, 2007
From Metaphysics to Physics: Malebranche on Being, Knowing, and Feeling
A conference sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts of Temple University, Held under the auspices of the department of philosophy and the Pre-Modern studies group of Temple University
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28 March 2007
5:30 - 8:00 pm
Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy
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On Tuesday, March 27 CHAT is sponsoring a workshop entitled “The IRB and CLA: The Stakes, the Utility, and the Concern.” The featured speaker will be Scott Burris, James E. Beasley Professor of Law, whose extensive scholarship on HIV and Public Health led to his developing into one of America's leading experts on the IRB. Bryant Simon from History, Rob Fauber from Psychology, and Zeb Kendrick and Ken Geller, both representing Temple’s IRB, will respond. The Department of Sociology’s Julia Ericksen will moderate the discussion. The issues raised at this workshop address the fundamental nature of scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences. “The IRB and CLA” will take place from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM in the Russell F. Weigley Room, Gladfelter 914.

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26 March 2007
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Graduate Student Conference
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23 March 2007
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Greek Seminar
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22 March 2007
8:00 - 10:00pm
Room 222 TUCC
New India Seminar: Bhanu Kapil Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Writing that crosses genres co-sponsored by the Temple Creative Writing Program and Temple-Penn Poetics
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What is Modern About the Ancient Art of Iraq?
On March 21, 2007, at 3:30 on the 10th Floor of Gladfelter Hall, CHAT will present Maureen Drdak: EX VOTO, a lecture provocative in form, contexts, and intellectual richness. A reception will follow.
An exhibit of two of Ms. Drkak's major works, The Killing of Lions, a War Meditation, and The Akedah Triptychwill run in the CHAT Art Gallery from March 21 through April 27.
For more information click on Maureen Drdak EX VOTO
EX VOTO flyer
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CHAT, American Studies, and the Department of History are pleased to join with Tyler’s Art History Department to sponsor a talk by Ohio State University’s Steven Conn. Professor Conn will present “Museums, Civic Identity, and the Public Sphere” at 3:00 PM on March 19 in The Russell Weigley Room, Gladfelter Hall, 914. For more information and a flyer, go Steven Conn.
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16 March 2007
11:00 - 12:00 pm
Greek Seminar
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CHAT - March 15, 2007
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Pablo Vila (Sociology) - "Gender Conflict in Argentine Cumbia Villera"

Like gansta-rap itself, music influenced by this musical genre, such as Argentine’s cumbia villera, shows a marked sexist and misogynist content. While some American academicians have refused to analyze why young females follow a music that objectify and denigrate them, it is the intention of this paper to do precisely that. Taking advantage of the more than 70 interviews and 30 participant observations in dance halls I have already collected, I want to advance the idea that different kinds of young females establish very distinct type of relationships with the lyrics that so negatively portray them, continuously rewriting patriarchal and misogynist texts. The extensive range of possibilities goes from dancing the music but never listening to the lyrics; to some girls admitting that they are willing to make themselves accomplices of the male objectivation and the fragmentation of their femaleness into the body parts that excite masculine desire in order to continue dancing, (but stressing that this move does not make them whores); to some others pointing out that the lyrics are not bad, because they really portray how the majority of cumbia villera’s fans really are, “except us, of course;” to some young females allowing themselves to “play,” in the restricted space of the dance hall, with the possibility of assuming the whore role that cumbia villera lyrics propose for them as a possible identification, knowing that the play starts and ends on Saturday night and does not go beyond the dance hall.
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14 March 2007
5:30 - 8:00 pm
Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy
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14 March 2007
3:30 - 6:00 pm
Weigley Room
Sanjoy Chakravorty - Making of India Discussion
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14 March 2007
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Disciplinary Decadence: Conversation with Lewis Gordon; Alan Singer Respondent
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9 March 2007
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Political Science Department Meeting
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2 March 2007
2:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Gender & Sexuality Reading Group
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2 March 2007
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Greek Seminar

February 2007

28 February 2007
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy

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28 February 2007
9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Graduate Fellows Meeting
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27 February 2007
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
History Faculty Lunch
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27 February 2007
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
CENFAD Meeting
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26 February 2007
2:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Dr. Carroll Meeting

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Nineteenth-Century Reproductions, 2006-07 conference:
Graduate Student Conference: February 24, 2007

Weigley Room, 914, Main Campus
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Nancy Cott (History, Harvard University)

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23 February 2007
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Greek Seminar

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22 February 2007
1:00 - 3:00 pm.
History Personnel Meeting
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CHAT - February 22, 2007
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - CHAT to be held in the Weigley Room, 914 Gladfelter Hall
Shelley Wilcox (Philosophy, CHAT Faculty Fellow) - "Citizenship and the Urban Environment"

Few environmental ethicists have investigated the urban environment as a proper subject of moral inquiry. This oversight is rooted in the tendency among North American environmental philosophers to focus on the question of whether nature has intrinsic moral value. While intrinsic value theories provide powerful justifications for duties to protect pristine natural environments, such as wilderness areas, the emphasis on nature has led environmental ethicists to devalue non-natural environments, including cities. Critics rightly reject the anti-urban trend in environmental ethics as myopic and racist, and urge environmental philosophers to develop new ethical theories capable of guiding our responses to urban issues such as blight, pollution, environmental racism, sprawl, and lack of green space. This paper critically evaluates civic environmentalism, the main theory on offer in this nascent field. Civic environmentalism attempts to derive an account of our urban environmental obligations from civic republican citizenship theory, originally developed in the writings of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Rousseau. I argue that core elements of civic republicanism sharply limit the environmental obligations that can be articulated within such a theory. I conclude that civic environmentalism can at best be only a part of a robust urban environmentalism, and I suggest several directions for a more adequate urban environmental ethics.
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21 February 2007
5:30 - 8:00 pm
Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

16 February 2007
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Greek Seminar
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Nineteenth-Century Reproductions, 2006-07 conference:
BIRTH: February 15, 2007

Rachel Fuchs (History, Arizona State University) - "'If you make the child, you feed it:' Paternal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century France"
Kathy Psomiades (English, Duke University) - "The Victorian Separation of Sex and Reproduction"
Respondent: Sally Mitchell (English, Temple University)
Moderator: Julia A. Ericksen (Sociology, Temple University)

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14 February 2007
5:30 - 8:00 pm
Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy
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14 February 2007
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Performance Texts Study Group; DVD showing

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Race and Gender in the Era of Emancipation
Fourth Annual Temple University Underground Railroad & Black History Conference
Ritter Hall Annex - Walk Auditorium
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Temple University Main Campus
Co-sponsors: CHAT; History Department, TU; Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum; Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association; General Meade Soceity, The C.W. Consortium.,

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9 February 2007
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Greek Seminar

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8 February 2007
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Claire Culleton Reception following Talk

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CHAT - February 8, 2007
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Carol Gould (Philosophy & Political Science; Center for Global Ethics & Politics ) - "Transnational Power, Coercion, and
Democracy"

In this paper, I consider some directions for transforming transnational power in the context of economic and political globalization from a power over people’s lives to something more democratic. But in order to do so, we need a clearer understanding of the nature of transnational power, and even more basically of power itself. This will entail distinguishing power from coercion, with important implications for understanding the forms that new sorts of transnational democratic governance might entail. These implications concern the degree to which democratic transnational power has to be exercised through coercive means (whether of state power or judicial supremacy) or instead whether another interpretation of its operation is possible, one more congruent with people’s equal freedom and social cooperation.
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7 February 2007
5:30 - 8:00 pm
Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5 February 2007
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Graduate Student Meeting, Plans for Spring ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2 February 2007
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Greek Seminar

January 2007

Treat Your Senses
Come Hear CHAT's Humanities Fellow, See CHAT's "New Look," & Taste Refreshing Refreshments
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
3:30 PM, 10th Floor Gladfelter

As a special welcome to the spring semester and introduction to the CHAT Art Gallery and Coffee “House,” this year’s Humanities Fellow, Saul Tobias, will be speaking on Elective Affinities: Toward a Critical Analysis of Interdisciplinarity. A reception will follow.

An abstract of the talk is available at http://www.temple.edu/humanities/InterdisciplinarityACriticalTheory
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31 January 2007
10:00 - 12:00 p.m.
Ryan Edgington Prospectus
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26 January 2007
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Philosophy Colloquia

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25 January 2006
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
CPA Event - Pre-lecture lunch

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CHAT - January 25, 2007
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Beth Bailey (History) - ""I'm a sensational looking chick. Can I ride up front in the tank?": Recruiting, Women, and the All-Volunteer Army"
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24 January 2007
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy
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19 January 2007
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Greek Seminar
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17 January 2007
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy

December 2006

7 December 2006
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
India Seminar & Reception
Lawrence Cohen (Anthropology, University of California, Berkely)

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6 December 2006
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Board Meeting ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

On Tuesday, December 5, at 3:30 PM CHAT is joining with the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society to host a special lecture by Professor Nguyen Van Trung, entitled "Bringing Vietnamese Literary Thought onto the World Stage: Existentialism and Culture in Vietnam."
Professor Trung's areas of specialization are the Philosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Literature, social and political philosophy, and the history of Vietnamese literature. He received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Toulouse in 1955, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Louvain in Belgium in 1961. He first taught at the University of Hue, where he was head of the Philosophy faculty and the founder of an interdisciplinary journal titled, Dai Hoc (The University). He later moved to Saigon, where he was the Dean of the Faculty of Letters (Dai Hoc Van khoa) and taught Philosophy and Vietnamese Literature until 1975.
In Saigon Professor Trung edited a series of journals, Hanh Trinh (The Journey), Dat Nuoc (Country or Nation) and Trinh Bay (Reporting). Prof. Trung became well-known as a specialist on Vietnamese existentialism and is identified with the young intellectuals who advocated a social revolution in South Vietnam. He now lives in Montreal, where he continues his research and writing.

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1 December 2006
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Philosophy Colloquium
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1 December 2006
12:40 - 2:00 p.m.
Greek Seminar

November 2006

CHAT - November 30, 2006
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Joseph Schwartz (Political Science, CHAT Faculty Fellow) - "Racism, Racial Politics, and the Construction of Contemporary Republican Political Hegemony"

The talk will explore how the post-1964 “realignment” of a significant portion of the white middle and working class into the Republican Party arose from a conscious conservative construction of a “white” identity. This "white" identity has a strong moral affinity with an alleged “meritocratic” ideology that perceives redistributive public policies as discriminating against hard-working “whites” in favor of people of color who do not abide by "the work ethic” (narrowly defined as full-time participation in the formal labor market). Fears of being perceived as overly solicitious of these "undeserving poor" led many "neo-liberal" Democratic elites to argue that the party can no longer be identified with an activist state that promotes social rights. Thus, despite increasing inequality, neither major political party defends equality as a central value of a democratic society. A copy is available at Racial Politics.

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30 November 2006
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Performative Texts Study Group
Inaugural Meeting

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"'If You Can't Protect What You Own, You Don't Own Anything': Piracy, Privacy and Public Relations in 21st Century Hollywood"
Jon Lewis
Thursday, November 30, 5:00 pm
Talk to be preceded by a workshop on “Publishing in Film Studies,” 3:00 - 4:30 pm

Jon Lewis is a professor in the English Department at Oregon State University where he has taught film and cultural studies since 1983. In 2002, Professor Lewis was named editor Cinema Journal and appointed to the Executive Council of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Professor Lewis has published five books: The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture, which won a Choice Magazine Academic Book of the Year Award; Whom God Wishes to Destroy Š Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood; The New American Cinema; Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, a New York Times New and Noteworthy paperback; and The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the Nineties. Forthcoming in 2007 are two books: American Film: A History and Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History, a collection co-edited with Eric Smoodin. In the past two years, Professor Lewis has appeared in two theatrically released documentaries on film censorship:

Inside Deep Throat (Fenton Baily, 2005) and This Film is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick, 2006).

Co-sponsored by Philadelphia Cinema & Media Seminar and Penn Cinema Studies
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CHAT - November 30, 2006
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Joseph Schwartz (Political Science, CHAT Faculty Fellow) - "Racism, Racial Politics, and the Construction of Contemporary Republican Political Hegemony"

28 November 2006
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Pre-Modern Studies

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17 November 2006
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Sexuality and Gender Reading Group

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17 November 2006
12:40 - 2:00 p.m.
Greek Seminar
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Nineteenth-Century Reproductions, 2006-07 conference:
November 16, 2006 Evolution

Nancy Armstrong, Modern Culture & Media (Brown), Jay Clayton, English (Vanderbilt) - Respondent: John Tresch, History and Sociology of Science, U Penn.

In this panel, two literary critics consider the reproduction of generations in writing on evolution, and a historian of anthropology responds to their claims about Darwin, Spencer, and Dickens.

Nancy Armstrong (Comparative Literature, English, and Modern Culture & Media, Brown University) - "The Gothic Darwin"
Jay Clayton (English, Vanderbilt University) - "Victorian Chimeras and Contemporary Genetics; or, What Thomas Huxley and H. G. Wells Have to Do with Public Policy Today"
Respondent: John Tresch (History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania)
Moderator: Kathy Biddick (History, Temple University) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

14 November 2006
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
English Department Study Group

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13 November 2006
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Gen Ed Global Slavery
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10 November 2006
3:00 - 5:00
Philosophy Colloquium
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10 November 2006
12:40 - 2:00 p.m.
Greek Seminar
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10 November 2006
10:00 - 12:00 p.m.
CENFAD Meeting; programming

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9 November 2006
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Cosmopolitanism Study Group
Initial Study Group Meeting

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CHAT - November 9, 2006
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Orfeo Fioretos (Political Science) - "Transnational At Last: An Economic History of the European Company "

We live in an age of global markets and global identities, and yet the legal basis of the most transnational of economic actors--the multinational company--has remained national. This talk explores the long history over a forty year period of European attempts to jettison the national legal status of the multinational firm in favor of a transnational European legal code. With the remarkable distinction of having the longest dossier period of any major legislative initiative in Europe, the political struggles over the construction of a truly European legal identity for firms tells us a great deal about the social forces that shape the evolution of the multinational firm in modern times.
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8 November 2006
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
New India Seminar
Ela Bhatt talk

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3 November 2006
12:40 - 2:00 p.m.
Greek Seminar

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"A View across the Maidan: Recovering a Dynamic Landscape" - A talk by Anu Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, University of Pnnsylvania School of Design"

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha are award-winning designers-planners who deploy a widely prevalent landscape of the Indian subcontinent – the maidan – as a lens to view places like Bangalore that planners struggle to contain and predict as a city in the global arena. Administrators still operating within the colonial tradition of the ‘gazetteer’ rush to fence it as a public space while designers hasten to articulate its spatial structure. But they miss the point: the maidan is not just an object to accommodate in space and time; the maidan is an attitude that accommodates. It is a negotiated settlement that grants landscape an agency that cannot be easily limited. It is an old ground for a new reading of terrains, one that opens a new past, present and future.

Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4:00-6:00 PM
CHAT Lounge
Gladfelter Hall 10th floor
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2 November 2006
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Imagination Conference Meeting
Discussion of plans for 2008 Imagination Conference

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"The Eye Needs a Rest" - a talk by Barry Bergdoll (Columbia University)

Lecture co-sponsored by the Architecture Program of the Tyler School of Art, the Department of Art History and the Graduate Art History Organization, and Tyler School of Art.
Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 6:00 p.m. - College of Architecture and Engineering Building, Lecture Hall 126

October 2006

30 October 2006
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Course Meeting; GenEd Course Development
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28 October 2006
9:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Historical Legacies Workshop
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27 October 2006
12:40 - 2:00 p.m.
Greek Seminar

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CHAT - October 26, 2006
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Jackie Murray (Greek and Roman Classics) - "The Transgendered Voice of Hellenistic Epigrams"

In the Hellenistic period, the shift away from performance as the primary way in which poetry was experienced allowed female poets to express their genius and subjectivity in the genres that were traditionally male. This important innovation was not confined to female poets; male poets, inspired by the innovations of their female predecessors and contemporaries, soon began to experiment with the impersonation of authentic female voice in these same genres, but in a way that did not, as its primary function, reinforce the patriarchal culture. This new possibility for poets of both genders to express an authentic female subjectivity in genres that were traditionally gendered as male changed the way gendered voice functioned in Greek poetics. It introduced an entirely new type of gendered voice, a voice that is simultaneously masculine and feminine, which this paper refers to as "transgendered."
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24 October 2006
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Pre-Modern Studies
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23 October 2006
2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Levinas Reception following talk in Weigley Room
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23 October 2006
11:30 - 12:30 p.m.
Vietnam Center: Organizers from New Orleans
Community Work in New Orleans
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"Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics" - A Talk by Martin Jay

Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of nine books, including Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (1993), and The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50 (1973). His most recent book is Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme (Berkeley: U of California Press, 2004).

Friday, October 20, 2006, 3:00 PM
Russell F. Weigley Seminar Room
Gladfelter 914
Reception to follow in the CHAT Reception Area, 10th Floor Gladfelter
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20 October 2006
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Philosophy Colloquium
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20 October 2006
11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Meeting organized by Noel Carroll

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19 October 2006
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
GenEd
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19 October 2006
11:45 - 1:15 p.m.
CENFAD; planning
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"The Weight of the Colonial Past on French Immigration Policies"
Alexis Spire (CNRS/CERAPRS, Lille)
October 18, 2006

Sponsored by the History Department, Faculty Senate, and the French Embassy. Second in the RACE AND EMPIRE: FRANCE AND NORTH AFRICA SERIES
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Speakers and Writers Workshop & Reception
Ralph.M. Berry, "Are We Us? Culture, History, and the Limits of the Aesthetic"
October 17, 2006
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
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"The Staging of Urban Nightlife in Philadelphia"
David Grazian (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania)
October 13, 2006
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13 October 2006
Greek Seminar

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CHAT - October 12, 2006
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Travis Glasson (History) - "Both Masters and Pastors: Anglican Missionaries and Slavery in the Eighteenth Century"

The Anglican ministers of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) were among the first British missionaries to attempt the conversion of non-European people to Christianity. Based on a belief that all people were capable of conversion and a vision of a shared, basic humanity, clergymen from the SPG worked to convert slaves in locations ranging from New York to South Carolina, Barbados and Cape Coast Castle in modern Ghana. However, these missionaries and the Society they served also came to believe in the legitimacy of slavery as an institution and the utility of slavery as a means for effecting conversions. This talk will present some of my ongoing research on the SPG's missionary work and discuss some of my findings about the way that missionary program intersected with the growth of slavery in the Atlantic world.

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12 October 2006
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Civil War Conference Planning

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Nineteenth-Century Reproductions, 2006-07 conference:
LIGHT: October 5, 2006
This panel considers reproductions of light from two distinct perspectives: a literary critic discusses early photographic attempts to capture light by illumination, and a historian of science looks at the physics of light in scientific theory.

Kate Flint (English, Rutgers University) - “‘Apparatus of the Dark’: Shock, Surprise, and Illumination in the Nineteenth Century”
Chris Otter (History, New York University) - “Patterns of Perception: Light, Vision, and Power in the Nineteenth Century”
Respondent: Alan Trachtenberg (English and American Studies, Yale University)
Moderator: Miles Orvell (English, Temple University)

September 2006

29 September 2006
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Weigley Dedication Reception following Michael Sherry's Talk

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29 September 2006
12:40 - 2:00 pm
Greek Seminar

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28 September 2006
11:40 - 4:30 p.m.
19th Century Forum
Jennifer Schaaf, University of Pennsylvania, Publishing and Catholic Community Formation in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
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27 September 2006
2:40 - 4:00 p.m.
ATTIC/TLC/Barnes Club
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26 September 2006
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Provost Commission on the Arts
Pedro Lasch Meet and Gree
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25 September 2006
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Phil Alperson Reception

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25 September 2006
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Graduate Seminar - Geertz Reading

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22 September 2006
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Philosophy Colloquium

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22 September 2006
12:40 - 2:00 p.m.
Greek Seminar

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CHAT - September 21, 2006
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Jena Osman (English) - "Public Figures"

For the last year or so, I have been researching the figurative public sculptures in Philadelphia. In general, we rarely take note of these figures; we walk around them as if they are buildings or large pieces of furniture. We navigate their boundaries without a momentary meditation on who they are or why they’re there. With that public invisibility in mind, I began to notice that a fair number of these sculptures are armed. "Public Figures" is a hybrid poem/ essay/slide show recording the results of my research.
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18 September 2006
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
IPA Reception following Talk
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15 September 2006
12:40 - 1:30 p.m.
Greek Seminar
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CHAT -: September 14, 2006
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Lawrence Venuti (English, CHAT Faculty Fellow) - "How to Read a Translation"

Although we are unlikely to assume that a translation is a complete and accurate reproduction of its source text, thinking about translation continues to be hampered by a communicative model. This talk will take a different approach by treating translations as interpretive acts and exploring methods of reading them as texts in their own right, relatively autonomous from the texts they translate. Examples will be drawn from religious, philosophical, and literary texts.

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8 September 2006
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Greek Seminar

August 2006

30 August 2006
11:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Reproductions Conference Planning Meeting

The Center for the Humanities
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Phone - 215-204-6386
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