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.
2026-2027 seminars include:
- September 16 – Mehmet Karabela
- September 29 – Claire Becker, "Convents in Context: Understanding the Strict Rule Followed by Sixteenth-Century Conceptionist Nuns”, Sadie Herman & Talia Christopher (Vincent Fellows)
- October 14 – Anu Ahmed, "Grammars of Crisis: Emergent Conceptions of Madness and Responsibility in Sunni-Islamic Maldives"
- October 27 – Peizhen Wu
- November 4 – Shohreh Laici, "Collage and Fragmented Narratives As A Form of Resistance in Memoir Writing"
- November 11 – Ferrari Global Scholars: Renee Jin, “Making as Method: Fieldwork in China's Sculpture Factories", Sven Joseph, "A Nation of Folklore: Polish Folk Ensembles in the Cold War", Jesus Garza, "Fugitive Rancherías: Land, Networks, and Encomiendas in Colonial Nuevo León, 1594-1750”
- December 1 – Ray Qu, “A Ladder of Hope: The Religious Capacity to Aspire under Authoritarian Biopolitics in North China”
- February 2 – Tp Coughlin, "Help Me, Peter. Help Me:" Apostrophe, Catachresis, and the Relationality of the Transfeminine Voice in Sarah Hennies's Contralto (2017)"
- February 17 – Liliya Dashevski, "The (Bad) Factory Toy in Fin de Siecle Russia"
- March 2 – Philip McHarris, "Brick Dreams: The Unfinished Project of Public Housing"
- March 17 – Stefanie Bautista
- March 30 – Shiqi Lin, “Bunker Urbanism: Ruinated Futures from the Underground”
- April 14 – Federica Parodi, "The Norm Is Queer: Mario Mieli, FUORI, and the Theater of Liberation in 1970s Italy"
- April 27 – Meliora Scholars