Fall 2010 Seminars

September 30th and October 1st

Department of Classics

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Featured Speakers:

• Sheila Dillion, Duke University (Art History and Classics)
• Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University (Classics)
• Kathryn Morgan, UCLA (Classics)

October 14th and 15th

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Featured Speakers:

• David Spergel, Princeton University (Astrophysical Sciences)
• Marcia Rieke, University of Arizona (Astronomy)
• Steve Girvin, Yale University (Physics)
• Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study (Astrophysics)
• Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego (Physics)
• Tony Tyson, University of California, Davis (Physics)
• Margaret Murnane, JILA/University of Colorado (Physics)

October 28th and 29th

Humanities Center

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Featured Speakers:

• Daniel Morgan, University of Pittsburgh (Film Studies) 
• Alessia Ricciardi, Northwestern University (Department of French and Italian, Comparative Literature) 
• Bernard J. Rhie, Williams College (Department of English) 
• Yi-Ping Ong, Johns Hopkins University (Humanities Center) 
• Leonardo F. Lisi, Johns Hopkins University (Humanities Center)
• Anne Eakin Moss,  Johns Hopkins University (Humanities Center)

November 11th and 12th

Department of Anthropology

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Featured Speakers Day 1: Contemporaneity and Emergence:

• Arjun Appadurai (NYU)
• Bhrigupati Singh (Harvard University)
• Steven Caton (Harvard University)
• Sameena Mulla (Marquette University)
• Matt Canfield (NYU)
• Xiao-bo Yuan (University of Chicago)
• Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins University)
• Jennifer Culbert (Johns Hopkins University)
• Deborah Poole (Johns Hopkins University)
• Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University)

Featured Speakers Day 2: The Nature of Anthropological Work:  Objects, Fieldwork, Pedagogy and Collaboration:

• Emma Cervone (Johns Hopkins University)
• Aaron Goodfellow (Johns Hopkins University)
• Clara Han (Johns Hopkins University)
• Naveeda Khan (Johns Hopkins University)
• Juan Obarrio (Johns Hopkins University)
• Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University)

November 18th and 19th

Film and Media Studies Program

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Featured Speakers Day 1: Panel discussion on the future of Film and Media Studies:

• Jerome Christiansen (UC Irvine)
• Scott MacDonald (Hamilton College)
• Pamela Wojcik (University of Notre Dame)
• Ray Allen, moderator, (Maryland Institute College of Art)

December 2nd and 3rd

Department of History

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Featured Speakers Day 1:

• Mai Ngai (Columbia University)
• Ron Walters (Johns Hopkins University)
• Michele Mitchell (NYU)
• Judy Walkowitz (Johns Hopkins University)
• James Sweet (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Peter Jelavich (Johns Hopkins University)
• Ussama Makdisi (Rice University)
• Sara Berry (Johns Hopkins University)
• Bill Rowe (Johns Hopkins University)

Featured Speakers Day 2: Panel One: Oceans & Empires:

• James Sweet (University of Wisconsin - Department of History)
• Pier Larson (Johns Hopkins University - Department of History)
• Sidney Mintz (Johns Hopkins University - Department of Anthropology).
• Chair: Ben Vinson (Johns Hopkins University - Department of History).

Panel Two: U.S. History: the Local, the National, and the Global.

• Mae Ngai (Columbia University - Department of History)
• Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University - Department of History)
• Michael Hanchard (Johns Hopkins University - Department of Political Science).
• Chair: Nathan Connolly (Johns Hopkins University - Department of History).

Panel One: Is Gender Still a Useful Category of Historical Analysis?

• Michele Mitchell (NYU - Department of History)
• Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins University - Department of History)
• Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University - Department of History of Medicine).
• Chair: Jeff Brooks (Johns Hopkins University - Department of History).

Panel Two: Intersections of Religion and Nation.

• Speakers: Ussama Makdisi (Rice University - Department of History)
• Hent de Vries (Johns Hopkins University - Humanities Center)
• Naveeda Khan (Johns Hopkins University - Department of Anthropology)
• Ken Moss (Johns Hopkins University - Department of History).
• Chair: Mary Ryan (John Hopkins University - Department of History).

December 16th and 17th

Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience Program, Mind/Brain Institute, and Department of Cognitive Science

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Featured Speakers:

• Mark D’Esposito, University of CA, Berkeley
• Jacob Feldman, Rutgers University
• Elissa Newport, University of Rochester
• Elizabeth Phelps, New York University
• Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
• Brian Scholl, Yale University
• Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute 
• Karel Svoboda, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Marcelo Wood, University of CA, Irvine
• Bob Wurtz, National Eye Institute, NIH

Spring 2011 Seminars

February 24th and 25th

Department of Political Science

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Featured Speakers: Panel 1: "Reconfiguring Power", Panel 2: "Reconfiguring Democracy", Plenary Session: Reconfiguring Political Science"

• Jacob Hacker, Yale University
• Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University
• Dan Slater, University of Chicago
• Neta Crawford, Boston University

March 3rd and 4th

Department of Philosophy

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Featured Speakers:

• Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University)
• Peter Godfrey Smith (Harvard University)
• Julia Driver (Washington Univ., St. Louis)
• Ned Block (New York University)
• Coffee Break
• L.A. Paul (UNC - Chapel Hill)
• Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)

March 10th and 11th

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Featured Speakers:

• Michael Prather, UC Irvine
• Jess Adkins, Caltech
• James Farquhar, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
• Douglas Burbank, UC Santa Barbara
• Ben Weiss, MIT

March 17th and 18th

Department of Biology

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Featured Speakers:

• Norm Pace, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
• Jonathan Weissman, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
• Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
• Sandra Schmid, Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute

March 31st and April 1st

History of Art

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Featured Speakers:

• Christiane Gruber, Indiana University - "Love It or Hate It":  The Performance of Piety and Politics in Islamic Visual Cultures
• Jacqueline Jung, Yale University - Boundaries and Passages in Medieval Art
• Molly Warnock, University of Chicago - Transformations of Painting in Postwar France
• Richard Neer, University of Chicago - Surface and Depth in Classical Sculpture
• Todd Cronan, Emory University - Matisse, Form and Affect

April 7th and 8th

Department of History of Science and Technology

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Featured Speakers:

• Maria Portuondo, Johns Hopkins University
• Buhm Soon Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Robert Marc Friedman, University of Oslo

April 14 and 15th

Department of Biophysics/ Program for Molecular Biophysics

Featured Speakers:

• Stephen Desiderio, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Susan Marqusee, University of California, Berkeley
• Vijay Pande, Stanford University
• Joseph Puglisi, Stanford University Medical School
• Olke Uhlenbeck, Northwestern University
• James Williamson, The Scripps Research Institute

April 21st and 22nd

Department of Economics

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Featured Speakers:

• Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University
• Glenn Ellison, MIT
• Jonathan Levin, Stanford University
• Ken Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania

May 12th and 13th

Department of Chemistry

Featured Speakers:

• Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology
• Carl Lineberger, University of Colorado
• Jeffery Moore, University of Illinois
• Matthew Platz, Ohio State University
• JoAnne Stubbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• John Tully, Yale University

Fall 2011 Seminars

September 8th and 9th

Department of English

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Featured Speakers:

• Bruce Robbins, Ph.D., Columbia Unviersity
• Leela Gandhi, University of Chicago
• Michael Warner, Ph.D., Yale University

September 15th and 16th

East Asian Studies Program

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Featured Speakers:

• Aihwa Ong, UC Berkeley
• Mary T. Gallagher, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Jordan Sand, Ph.D., Georgetown University

October 6th and 7th

Department of Writing Seminars

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Featured Speakers:

• Charles Baxter, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
• Jane Shore, George Washington University

October 13th and 14th

Public Health Studies

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Featured Speakers:

• Alfred Sommer, Professor Dean Emeritus, Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Rebecca Onie, Co-Founder & CEO of Health Leads
• Eric Ding, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital

October 14th

The Arts

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Featured Speakers:

• Mariët Westermann, Vice President Mellon Foundation
• Matthew Tiews, Executive Director of the Arts Program, Stanford University
• Stephen Hinton, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University
• Larry Norman, Deputy Provost for the Arts, University of Chicago
• Bill Michel, Executive Director, Logan Arts Center, University of Chicago
• Leila Kinney, Director of Arts Initiatives, MIT

October 20th and 21st

Department of Near Eastern Studies

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Featured Speakers:

• Eleanor Robson, University of Cambridge
• Thomas Schneider, University of British Columbia
• Ronald Hendel, University of California, Berkeley
• Gil Stein, University of Chicago
• James P. Allen, Brown University

October 27th and 28th

Department of Mathematics

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Featured Speakers:

• David Burns, Kings College London
• Michael Hopkins, Harvard University
• Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University
• Richard Schoen, Stanford University

November 3rd and 4th

Latin American Studies

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Featured Speakers:

• Paul Gootenberg, SUNY at Stony Brook
• Edmund Gordon, University of Texas at Austin
• Eric Hershberg, American University

November 10th and 11th

Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures

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Featured Speakers:

• Rubén Gallo, Princeton University
• Joshua Landy, Stanford University
• Helmut Müller-Sievers, University of Colorado
• Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College

November 17th and 18th

International Studies Program

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Featured Speakers:

• Jelke Boesten, US Institute of Peace
• Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, American University

December 1st and 2nd

Center for Africana Studies

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Featured Speakers:

• Sandra T. Barnes, University of Pennsylvania
• Paul Lovejoy, York University
• Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University
• Ben Vinson, III, Johns Hopkins University
• Nathan Connolly, Johns Hopkins University

December 8th and 9th

Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality

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Featured Speakers:

• Lynne Huffer, Emory University
• Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, Le Moyne College
• Dana Luciano, Georgetown University