
2000-2001
Theme: Structures of Feeling: Passions, Emotions, Moods
oct
13
Lecture: “Excessive States”
nov
03
Judith Fetterley & Marjorie Pryse
Lectures: “‘Close’ Reading, Emphatic Connection and Emotional Work” and “Reparative Reading and the Textual Construction of Emotion”
nov
07
Bernard Smith
Lecture: “Modernisms and the Formalesque”
nov
17
Lecture: “The Justification of Emotions”
jan
09
Alexis Brooks-De Vita
Lecture: “Mythatypes: Signatures and Signs of African/Diaspora and Black Goddesses”
jan
11
Lecture: “Writing (and) Corporate Growth: Texts and the ‘Technical/Social Split'”
jan
12
Lecture: “Metamorphosis of a Nation: Cities, Crisis, Change in Octavia E. Butler’s Earthseed Series”
jan
18
Lecture: “Who Owns Creative Non-Fiction?”
mar
09
Jessica Gienow-Hecht
Lecture: “‘Sound’ Diplomacy: Music and Politics in German-American Relations, 1870-1920”
apr
27–28
Symposium: Just Feelings: Citizenship, Justice, and the Emotions
Susan Bandes, Dick Blau, Mark Bradley, Jane Caputi, Carrie Yang Costello, Ann Cvetkovich, Jane Gallop, Bernard Gendron, Alice Gillam, Lane Hall, Kristie Hamilton, Anne Hansen, John P. Jackson, Gregory Jay, Ingrid Jordt, Eduardo Kac, Gwynne Kennedy, Leerom Medovi, José Esteban Muñoz, Patrice Petro, William Reddy, Kevin Rozario, Kristin Ruggiero, Lisa Saltzman, Milette Shamir, Jennifer Travis, William Velez, Joan Wolf, Yuan Yuan
2001-2002
Theme: Transculturalism and the Ends of Community
sep
21
Timothy Brennan
Lecture: “Avante-Gardes, Communists, Colonies, and Culture: Antonio Gramsci and Postcolonial Theory”
sep
28
Cecilia Vicuña
Lecture: “The Act as Poetry and Art”
oct
19
Symposium: The Ends of Scientific Knowledge
with Joan Fujimura, Steve Fifield, Paul Brodwin
nov
05
Mark Poster
Lecture: “Citizenship, New Media, and Globalization”
nov
09
William Scheuerman
Lecture: “Globalization and the Fate of Law”
dec
07
Symposium: The Roma (The Gypsies): Transculturalism Avant La Lettre
with Dick Blau, Ian Hancock, Charles Keil, Anya Verkhovskaya-Cohen
feb
20
Sherman Alexie
Lecture: “Killing Indians: Myths, Lies, and Exaggerations”
feb
21
Symposium: No Ends to Native Communities
with Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Gordan Henry, Simon Ortiz, Lavonne Ruoff
mar
08
Symposium: Local and Transcultural Identities and Communities in the LGBT Past and Present
with James Green and Marc Stein
apr
05
Veena Das
Lecture: “How the Body Speaks: Diagnostic Processes and Call to Community”
apr
12
Symposium: The Globalization of Popular Music
with Steven Feld, Jocelyne Guilbault, Bernard Gendron
apr
19
Coco Fusco
Lecture: “The Bodies That Were Not Ours: Writing on the Situation of Postcolonial Culture”
2002-2003
Theme: War
Fall
2002
Center Newsletter: Fall 2002
oct
04–05
Conference: 9/11 Reconstructions, Commemoration and the Urban Fabric
with Stephen Toope, Sohail Hashmi, Michael Walzer, Henry Jenkins, Brigitte Nacos, Douglas Kellner, Sasha Torres, Michele Bogart, Kirk Savage, Shaila Dewan, Beth Fertig, Brooke Gladstone, Elaine Scarry
nov
01
Symposium: War and Gender/Gender and War I
with Cynthia Enloe, Miriam Cooke, Paul Lerner
nov
22
Seminar: “The Language of War”
wntr
2003
Center Newsletter: Winter 2003
feb
07
mar
06–07
Symposium: War and Gender/Gender and War II
with Susan Kent, Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Rose Daitsman, Jan Maher
mar
28
Lecture: “Masculinity and Father-Son Conflict in American Film, Pre- and Post-9/11”
apr
02
Joshua Cole
Seminar: “Remembering Police Violence in Paris: 17 October 1961 in France and Algeria”
apr
17
Speak-Out on the War in Iraq
may
02
Terror and American Culture Mini-Symposium
with Susan Lurie and Susan Jeffords
SPNG
2003
Center Newsletter: Spring/Summer 2003
2003-2004
Theme: Geographies of Difference
Fall
2003
Center Newsletter: Fall 2003
sep
13
The Films of Anne-Marie Miéville: Space, Gender, Identity
Film screenings and talks by Elizabeth Cowie, James Williams, Catherine Grant, and André Habib
Sep
19
Tyler Stovall
Lecture: “Black Migration From the French Caribbean to France From 1848 to 1945”
oct
13
David Harvey
Seminar and Lecture: “The New Imperialism”
oct
24
nov
14-15

Conference: Museums and Difference
with Ira Jacknis, Alice Conklin, Andrew McClellan, Anne Higonnet, Renée Green, Annie Coombes, Bettina Arnold, Nélia Dias, Lissant Bolton, Mark Sandberg, Daniel Sherman, Peter McIsaac, Norman Kleeblatt, Nicholas Thomas, Angus Lockyer, Leslie Bellavance, Robert Haywood, Andrew Kincaid, Tony Bennett, Christopher Steiner, William Truettner
Wntr
2004
Center Newsletter: Winter 2004
feb
27
New European Frontiers Symposium
with Marc Abélès, Daphne Berdahl, and Laird Boswell
may
07
James Ferguson
Lecture: “Globalizing Africa?”
SPNG
2004
Center Newsletter: Spring/Summer 2004
2004-2005
Theme: Geographies of Difference
Fall
2004
Center Newsletter: Fall 2004
oct
14
Paul Arthur
Seminar: “Fantasies of the Antipodes”
oct
29
Symposium: Multicultural Australia
with Patrice Petro, Ihab Hassan, Nicolas Jose, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Diane Bell, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Patricia O’Brien
nov
12
Bonnie Smith
Seminar: “Global Trade in Ideas”
WNTR
2005
Center Newsletter: Winter 2005
feb
11
Seminar: “In Search of the Absolute: Pictorial Knowledge in 16th-Century Anatomy & Botany”
feb
24-25
Screening: MUR (WALL), dir. by Simone Bitton
Panel Discussion: Ussama Makdisi, Brian Edwards, and Tasha Oren
apr
08-09
Conference: Routing Diasporas: Labor, Citizenship, Empire
with Kristin Espinosa, Andrew Kincaid, Engseng Ho, Parama Roy, Jenny Sharpe, Rachel Buff, Betty Joseph, Todd Shepard, Martin Berger, Shelley Streeby, Julie Greene, Aihwa Ong, Marina Carter, Crispin Bates, Donald Nonini, Julius Scott, Thomas Malaby, Angel Adams Parham, Lok Siu. Organized by Sukanya Banerjee, Aims McGuinness, and Steve McKay
apr
22
Haun Saussy
Lecture: “Death and Translation”
spng
2005
Center Newsletter: Spring/Summer 2005
2005-2006
Theme: States of Autonomy
fall
2006
Center Newsletter: Fall 2005
sep
16
Lecture: “Autonomy and Its Histories”
oct
21-22
with Siba Grovogui, Eileen Scully, Mark Philip Bradley, Martha Kaplan, John Kelly, Aida Hozic, Thomas Lamarre, Aims McGuinness, Fred Cooper, Kevin Dunn, Leonard Smith, David Tucker, Keith Brown, and Robert Ricigliano
Organized by Douglas Howland and Luise White
nov
04
Lecture: “What Does Autonomy Mean in the Age of Nanotechnology”
nov
18
Lecture: “Learning as Equals”
dec
02
dec
09
feb
10
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Keynote: Walid Raad, “The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Documents from the Atlas Group Archive”
mar
10
Lecture: “Kung Fu Hustle and the Globalization of Asian Cinema”
apr
07
may
05
Seminar: “Scars of Citizenship: Public Health, Personal Liberty, and the Law in Progressive Era America”
spng
2006
Center Newsletter: Spring/Summer 2006
2006-2007
Theme: Autonomy, Gender, and Performance
fall
2006
Center Newsletter: Fall 2006
sep
15
2005-06 Center Fellows’ Presentations: “The Body: Locating Autonomy” and Annual Center Open House
with Susan Funkenstein, Ellen Amster, Jasmine Alinder, Melanie Mariño, John McGuigan, and K.E. Supriya
sep
29
Amanda Anderson
Lecture: “Argument, Autonomy, and the Novel”
oct
27
David Román
Lecture: “A Streetcar Named Deseo”
nov
10
Symposium: Conversion Tales: Missionaries, Mary Magdalene, and Catholic Culture
with Jodi Bilinkoff and Elizabeth Rhodes
dec
01
Lecture: “Suzi Quatro Wants to be Your Man: Female Masculinity in Glam Rock”
wntr
2007
Center Newsletter: Winter 2007
jan
26
Lecture: “Autonomy and the Pull of Convention: Colonial Efforts to Stop Female Circumcision”
feb
23-24

Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Theme: “Performing (In)Visibility”
feb
23
Performance: “The Mammy Project”
mar
09
Symposium: Performative Autonomy and the Embodied Past
with Pamela Brown and Susan Cook
mar
30
Lecture: “The Terrorist Look: Biometric Screens, Race, and the Digital Sublime”
apr
20
Elizabeth Whitney
Performance: “Wonder Woman: The Musical”
may
04-05
Conference: In Terms of Gender: Crosscultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
with Lynne Huffer, Gayle Salamon, Carol Quillen, Mrinalini Sinha, Elizabeth Weed, Judith Butler, Éric Fassin, Elora Shehabuddin, Jeff Nunokawa, Mary Sheriff, Janice Bergman-Carton, Mary Ann Doane, Joan Scott, Jane Gallop, Wendy Brown
Organized by Daniel J. Sherman and Mary Louise Roberts
spng
2007
Center Newsletter: Spring/Summer 2007
2007-2008
Theme: Past Knowing
fall
2007
Center Newsletter: Fall 2007
sep
07
Disciplinary Dialogue: Toward a New Human Universal
with Keith Hart and Ralph Litzinger
sep
28
2006-07 Center Fellows’ Presentations and Annual Center Open House
oct
12

Symposium: Past Knowing / Future Knowledge: Archaeology and Museums in the 21st Century
with Carla Antonaccio, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Geoff Emberling, Virginia Fields, Patty Gerstenblith
Organized by Daniel Sherman and Jane Waldbaum
oct
26
Disciplinary Dialogue: The Tenses of Historicism
with Helena Michie, J. David Hoeveler, and Jason Puskar
NOV
16
Gwendolyn Wright
Lecture: “Excavating American Modern Architecture”
dec
07

Symposium: From Magna Carta to the Sky Trust: The Historical Arc of the Commons
with Christopher Baruth, Daniel J. Sherman, Peter Linebaugh, Keith Aoki, David Bollier, Bernard Perley, Will Allen, Julilly Kohler, Melissa Scanlan, Vel Willey
Organized by Kathryn Milun and Rachel Ida Buff
wntr
2008
Center Newsletter: Winter 2008
feb
15-16
feb
29
Pablo Boczkowski
Lecture: “Past Knowing?: The Practice and Infrastructure of Imitation in Contemporary News Work”
mar
14
Peter McIsaac
Seminar: “Past Anatomy: Figures of Salvage and Transformations in the Body Worlds Exhibitions”
mar
28
with Bruce Holsinger and Gabrielle Spiegel
apr
03-04

Symposium: Picturing the Modern: Photography, Film, and Society in Central Europe, 1918-1945
with David Frey, Elizabeth Otto, Anson Rabinbach, Lisa Silverman, Petr Szczepanik, Matthew Witkovsky
Organized by Daniel J. Sherman and Lisa Hostetler
apr
18
Andrew Hemingway
Lecture: “Precisionist Painting and Critical Art History’s Dilemma:
Aesthetics and the Limits of Historical Meaning”
may
01
Thomas Keenan
Lecture: “The Death of Politics? Human Rights, New Public Spheres, and the Jihad”
with a comment by Samuel Weber
spng
2008
Center Newsletter: Spring/Summer 2008
2008-2009
Theme: Past Knowing
fall
2008
Center Newsletter: Fall 2008
sep
19
2007-08 Fellows Presentations
with Michelle Bolduc, Barrett Kalter, Christina Maranci, and Caroline Seymour-Jorn
sep
26
George Wilson
Film Screening: The Man Who Wasn’t There
Lecture: “Love and Bullshit in Santa Rosa: On the Coen Brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There”
oct
09
oct
23-25
Conference: Since 1968: A Center for 21st Century Studies 40th Anniversary Conference
with James Ferguson, Carolee Schneemann, Noit Banai, Martin Berger, Judit Bodnar, Julian Bourg, Rose Brewer, Yoshikuni Igarashi, Michelle Kuo, Richard Langston, Tamara Levitz, Simon Prince, Ann Reynolds, Robert Self, Dina Mahnz Siddiqi, Carol Siegel, Jeremi Suri, Mark Tribe, Fred Turner, Kath Weston
Organized by Jasmine Alinder, Aneesh Aneesh, Kumkum Sangari, Daniel J. Sherman, and Ruud van Dijk
nov
07
Lecture: “The Politics of Conviction: Faith in the Neoliberal Frontier”
nov
20-21
Charles Bosk
Lecture: “Forgive and Remember: Reflections on Doctors and Mistakes”
wntr
2009
Center Newsletter: Winter 2009
mar
06
Lecture: “Pirate Copying, Jugaad Economics: Postcolonial Technologies and Developmental Leapfrogging”
may
01
Lecture: “Database History: New Designs on the Past”
spng
2009
Center Newsletter: Spring/Summer 2009
2009-2010
fall
2009
Center Newsletter: Fall 2009
sep
16
Lecture: “Whatever Is There Is a Truth: Robert Rauschenberg’s Prints”
Co-sponsored by Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art
sep
24
Glenn Hendler
Lecture: “Riot Acts”
sep
25
oct
16
Whitney Davis
Lecture: “Virtuality and Metaopticality”
oct
18
Screening: Fig Trees
Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival
oct
30
nov
13
nov
20
Symposium: Space, Power, and Fear in Modern America
with Bruce d’Arcus and Joseph Masco
dec
04
Fall 2009 Humanities Dissertator Presentations
Kate Haffey (Literary Studies, English), Susan Kerns (Modern Studies, English), and Brice Smith (Modern Studies, History)
dec
11
wntr
2010
Center Newsletter: Winter 2010
feb
12
Lecture: “Monuments of Disintegration”
feb
26
Lecture: “Shanghai and the History of the Future”
mar
11
Lecture: “‘Every Secret Thing?’ Racial Politics in Ansuyah R. Singh’s Behold the Earth Mourns (1960)”
mar
12
Forum: What is the Place of Public Scholarship?
with Cheryl Ajirotutu, Jasmine Alinder, Gregory S. Jay, and Center deputy director Kate Kramer
apr
02
Barney Warf
Lecture: “Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Geographical Imaginations”
apr
09
Lecture: “Animating the Archive: Vectors and Other Experiments in Scholarly Publishing”
apr
16
apr
29
Keynote by Michael A. Gillespie
Installation and Performance by Theaster Gates: “To Speculate Darkly: Theaster Gates and Dave the Potter”
spng
2010
Center Newsletter: Spring/Summer 2010
1970s: Film, Performance, Language, and Technology
1980s: Feminism, Modernism, and Culture
1990s: Culture, Aesthetics, Aging, and Animals
2010s: The Digital, Nonhuman Turn, Anthropocene, Indigeneities