Welcome- Meet & Greet
2017-2018
Mellon Research Seminar
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September 5, 2017
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September 12, 2017
Emily Wilson
Respondent: Fatemeh Shams -
September 19, 2017
James Bergman
"Afterlives of Climate: The Persistence of Data in Climatology, 1933–1963"
Respondent: Mary Ebeling -
September 26, 2017
Colin Williamson
"(Re)Animating Film History: Dead Media and the Art of Visual Education"
Respondent: Huda Fakhreddine -
October 3, 2017
Projit Mukharji
"Reincarnating the Cold War: Researching Afterlives in Postcolonial India, c. 1950-80"
Respondent: Darin Hayton -
October 10, 2017
Delia Wendel
"Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Memory and Sovereignty"
Respondent: Salamishah Tillet -
October 17, 2017
Jacob Doherty
"Waste Worlds: Kampala's Infrastructures of Cleanliness and Disposability"
Respondent: Orchid Tierney -
October 24, 2017
Kathy Peiss
"Looted Jewish Books, Nazi Collections, and their American Afterlives"
Resopondent: Simon Richter -
October 31, 2017
Round Table Discussion
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November 7, 2017
Meg Leja
"Beyond the Body and Back Again: The Carolingian Soul and the Afterworld"
Respondent: Sierra Lomuto -
November 14, 2017
Pearl Brilmyer
"Germ Plasm, Gemmules, and Other Durational Forms: The Temporality of Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century Science and Literature"
Respondent: Sara Ray -
November 28, 2017
Adam Foley
"Homer's Winged Words and Humanist Latinity: The Task of Translating Homer in the Italian Renaissance"
Respondent: Christopher Lee -
January 23, 2018
Simon Richter
"The Strange Afterlife of William of Orange and Philipp II in Nazi Era Literature and Its Aftermath (1933-53)"
Respondent: Jim English -
January 30, 2018
Fatemeh Shams
"Poetry, Graveyards, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Iran"
Respondent: Meg Leja -
February 6, 2018
Roundtable Discussion
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February 13, 2018
Salamishah Tillet
"All The Rage: 'Mississippi Goddamn' and the World Nina Simone Made"
Respondent: Kathy Peiss -
February 20, 2018
Orchid Tierney
"Material Poetics and its Afterlives: Landfills, Waste, Media"
Respondent: James Bergman -
February 27, 2018
Christopher Lee
"Apartheid Afterlives: Ethics, Affect, and the Editorial Work of Mourning"
Respondent: Colin Williamson -
March 13, 2018
Mary Ebeling
"The Uncanny Afterlives of Private Health Data in the Debt Society"
Respondent: Pearl Brilmyer -
March 20, 2018
Darin Hayton
"Byzantine Demons and the Limits of Life"
Respondent: Emily Wilson -
March 27, 2018
Roundtable Discussion
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April 3, 2018
Sierra Lomuto
"Mongols, Medieval Race Making, and Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great"
Respondent: Adam Foley -
April 10, 2018
Huda Fakhreddine
"The Afterlives of the Archetypal Qaṣīda in Modern Arabic Poetry"
Respondent: Delia Wendel -
April 17, 2018
Sara Ray
"Monsters in the Cabinet: Human Anatomical Collecting and the Question of Organic Change, 1780-1850"
Respondent: Jacob Doherty -
April 24, 2018
Open Discussion and Wrap-up