Jesse L. Rosenberger Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
The Center began hosting a regular, bi-weekly lunchtime seminar series in January 2016. This series includes presentations by the Center’s faculty fellows.
2025-2026 seminars include:
- 9/16 - Karma Frierson, "Crossing Boundaries, Creating Community: The Various Interpretations of an (Afro)(Mexican) Musical Form"
- 10/1 - Meghaa Ballakrishnen, “Dialectical Criticism”
- 10/15 – Shohreh Laici, “Greetings from Tehran: A Memoir in Letters”
- 10/28 - Bernhard Nickel, "Linguistic Reflections of Stereotypes"
- 11/5 - Jon Catlin, "Permanent Catastrophe: The Lives of A Concept from WWI to the Climate Crisis"
- 11/12 - Vialcary Crisostomo Tejada, “Geographies of Refusal: Dominican Feminist Literature and the Racialized Body”
- 12/2 - Melanie Chambliss, “Building an African Africana Collection: Dorothy Porter and the National Library of Nigeria”
- 2/3 – Pablo Sierra, "Black Pirates of the Caribbean: Between Empire and Ambiguity, 1680-1700"
- 2/18 - Laura Smoller, "Star-Gazers from the Mount of Victory: The Magi and Astrology in Medieval and Renaissance Europe"
- 3/3 – Molly Ball, "The Ones they Carried: Reimagining Communities of Care in Salvador, 1840 - 1920"
- 3/18 - Maya Abtahian, Title TBD
- 3/31 - Lisa Cerami,“On Anti-Semitic Tropes”
- 4/15 - Uzma Zafar, "Adjudicatory Affects: On Transgender Identity and Citizenship in Near Time"
- 4/28 - Mel Scholars (Jasmin Toor, TBA)