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.
2024-2025 seminars include:
- 9/18 – Cilas Kemedjio: “Frederick Douglass’s legacies: Humanitarian Fallacies, Intertextual Networks and Pan-Africanist Solidarities in Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie”
- 10/1- Daly Arnett: “When a Creature Draws: the Anti-Cultural in Postwar Francophone Thought”
- 10/16 – Richard Fadok: “Architecture’s Ornithologics: Bird-Friendly Design and the Ethics of Indexicality”
- 10/29 - Anu Ahmed: “Recovering (through) a counter-ethics in ‘mad’ repetitions”
- 11/13 – Tingting Xu: "A Screen So Grand: Coromandel Screens from the Perspective of Scale"
- 12/3 – Jon Catlin: Germany at a Crossroads: Race, Religion, and "Historical Reckoning Gone Haywire"
- 2/4 – John Givens: "The Anxiety of Belief in Russian Cinema"
- 2/19 - Nigel Maister "Face Value: The Uses and Complex Definitions of Portraiture"
- 3/4 - Ben Baker: “Participatory Covers, Audience Choirs, and Jacob Collier’s Public Music Theory”
- 3/19 - Melanie Chambliss: "Access and Agency: Early Twentieth-Century Black Libraries and a New "Epoch" in the Diffusion of Knowledge"
- 4/2 - Stefanie Dunning: "The Third Life of Zora Neale Hurston: Tracking the Unspoken in Black Women's Archives"
- 4/29 – Meliora Scholars (James Kinde, "Vice Versa: Female to Male Transsexuals Before Transgender Liberation", Spencer Dittelman, "Reactionary Writing: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Anthony Trollope")