Sarah Hirsch (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 16 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In Cities of the Dead (1996), Joseph Roach observes that New Orleans is a place "where the dead remain more gregariously present to the living, materially, and spiritually, than they do...
Jessica L. Ambler (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 18 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Roman rebuilding of Carthage as Colonia Concordia Iulia Karthago in the early first century CE has typically been described by scholars as an act of Roman hegemony, wiping...
Laura Miller (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 25 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Building on contemporary research in alchemy and gender, I engage the medium of space, examining the connections between the identity of the philosopher-alchemist and the composition of a masculine domestic space. I...
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Drawing upon three years of intensive ethnographic research in both atypical and typical strip clubs in California and Oregon, Hidalgo discusses how embodied labor is negotiated in these clubs. Further, she...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Film stars are worshiped in India and even temples have been dedicated to them by their devotee-fans. The fan clubs of South Indian film star, Rajinikanth have been publicly ritualizing his film...
Michelle Samura (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11, 2011 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel explores emergent possibilities from using a spatial approach to examine, understand, and talk about race relations on college campuses. A spatial lens locates larger racial meanings and ideologies in...
Rose Hayden-Smith (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 13 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of the Victory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and models as well...
Emily Engel (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, November 10 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this analysis of collecting practice in eighteenth-century South America, Engel suggests that viewing and sponsoring works of art, in particular portraits, provided the Bourbon South American viceroys with ways to contemplate...
Jacob Latham (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, October 20, 2010 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB There were at least five disputed episcopal elections in the fourth through the sixth centuries. This intra-Christian competition did not, however, lead to the contestation of space in the form of...
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, June 2 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Building upon the vast amount of work on interaction-based perspectives on stripping, this talk will incorporate two areas of inquiry that have been absent in the literature: the performance or embodiments...
Emily Engel (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, March 3 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru, the city council of Lima regularly commissioned and exhibited official portrait paintings between 1700 and 1830. By the time of the revolution, the city’s...
Susan Keller (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, February 3 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The figure of a woman applying makeup in public was one of the quintessential images of modernity in the early twentieth century, and also highly scandalous. This talk explores the ways...
Kara Attrep (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, January 13 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1971 Coca-Cola released its now iconic advertisement, "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing." This advertisement and its accompanying jingle became hits within the United States. Besides its appeal as...