10 May Annual UC Society of Fellows meeting April 18-19 at UCLA
Program Schedule
12:00 Welcome and Introductions
12:30-1:30 Faculty Fellow Panel 1
Crisis and/in Counternarratives
The Falls of Rome: Responses to Crises, 270-604
Michele Salzman, History, UC Riverside
Growing Up with the Country
Kendra Taira Field, History, UC Riverside
Fear and Democracy in Postwar Germany
Frank Biess, History, UC San Diego
The French Connection: Henri Corbin and Iran, Islam, Philosophy and Revolution
Roxanne Varzi, Anthropology, UC Irvine
1:30-2:15 Graduate Fellow Breakout Session 1
A: Scenes of Cultural Exchange
Reorienting Khrushchev’s Russia: Indo-Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1948-1968
Jeremiah Wishon, History, UC Riverside
Assembling Maori Architecture: Indigenous Knowledge and Expert Collaboration in an Emerging Science
Jacob Culbertson, Anthropology, UC Davis
The Art of Parties: Downtown New York Cultural Scenes, 1978-1983
Kristen Galvin, Visual Studies, UC Irvine
B: Acting and Expressing the Self
The Brandished Lyric: Form, Temporality and the Lyric I
Anna Finn, English, UC Irvine
Embodied Rational Agency
Yannig Luthra, Philosophy, UCLA
In Corporation: Lecoq-Based Pedagogy’s Body-Bound Theory and Cognitive Science
Maiya Murphy, Theater & Dance, UC San Diego
2:15-3:15 pm Faculty Fellow Panel 2
Textual Excavations/Resistant Histories
The Worlding of Marco Polo
Sharon Kinoshita, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
The Origins and Evolution of Journalistic French: From the First Periodical (1631) to the French Revolution (1789)
Mairi McLaughlin, French, UC Berkeley
Representing October 17: Algeria, France and the Writing of History
Lia Nicole Brozgal, French and Francophone Studies, UCLA
Insurgency Interrupted: Cuban Slaves and the Resistance Movements of 1843-1844
Aisha Finch, Gender Studies and Afro-American Studies, UCLA
3:15-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:15 Graduate Fellow Breakout Session 2
A: Language, Cinema, and Literary Effects
Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Immediacy
Daniel Clinton, English, UC Berkeley
A Theory of Nominal Concord
Mark Norris, Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
In the Realm of the Sexes: The Political Theory of Sex on Screen, 1968-1982
Damon Young, Film & Media, UC Berkeley
B: The Local Community In Distress
National Reform and Municipal Revolt in a Revolutionary Spain: Seville and Western Andalusia, 1766-1823
Charles Nick Saenz, History, UC San Diego
Seeing Through Violence: Murder and Gentrification in West Oakland
Jeffrey Schonberg, Medical Anthropology, UC San Francisco
The Smell of Petroleum: Citizenship, Health, and Insecurity in “Revolutionary” Ecuador
Nicholas Welcome, Cultural Anthropology, UC Riverside
4:15-5:00 pm Graduate Fellow Breakout Session 3
A: Virtual Reproductions
Beyond Words: The Visual Turn in Jacobean England
Pavneet Aulakh, English, UC Santa Barbara
Talking about Things: A Cognitive Approach to Digital Heritage and Material Culture Studies in Archaeology
Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco, World Cultures, UC Merced
Psychonautic Media
Anastasia Yumeko Hill, Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Group B: Literacies of Geographic Spaces
Sentimental Literacies: Grief, Writing, and American Indigenous Rights, 1820-1920
Sarah Klotz, English, UC Davis
On the Threshold of Eurasia: Intersecting Discourses of Empire and Identity in the Literature of the Russian Empire
Leah Feldman, Comparative Literature, UCLA
Wetland Americas: Mapping a Literary History of New Orleans
Matthew Suazo, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
5:00-6:00 pm Faculty Fellow Panel 3
Playing with Time/Space/Identity
New Urban Practices and Configurations of Public Space in São Paulo
Teresa Caldeira, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter
Colin Milburn, English, UC Davis
Consciousness and the Passage of Time
Geoff Lee, Philosophy, UC Berkeley
Too “Chinese” to play a “Chinese”: Anna May Wong, the Segregationist Era, and American Cinema
Yiman Wang, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
6:30-9:30 pm Reception + Public Event at Fowler
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