Wednesday, May 26, 2010

2010-11 Geballe Research Workshops

The Stanford Humanities Center is pleased to announce that fifteen research workshops have been selected for 2010-11. The Theodore and Frances Geballe Research Workshops bring together groups of approximately 100 Stanford faculty and over 200 advanced graduate students, as well as visiting scholars and those at other local institutions to present their current research and otherwise explore topics of common intellectual concern. Workshops meet regularly (at least three times a quarter) during the academic year.

Archaeology Today
Faculty Coordinators: Lynn Meskell (Anthropology), Jennifer Trimble (Classics)
Graduate Student Coordinators: Adam Nazaroff (Anthropology), Claudia Liuzza (Anthropology)

Capitalism’s Crises
Faculty Coordinator: Sylvia Yanagisako (Anthropology)
Graduate Student Coordinators: Ramah McKay (Anthropology), Hannah Appel (Anthropology)

Environmental Norms, Institutions, and Policy
Blokker Research Workshop
Faculty Coordinator: Debra Satz (Philosophy and Ethics in Society)
Graduate Student Coordinator: Rachael Garrett (Environment and Resources)

Ethics and Politics, Ancient and Modern
Marta Sutton Weeks Research Workshop
Faculty Coordinators: Chris Bobonich (Philosophy and Classics), Josh Ober (Classics, Political Science, and Philosophy)
Graduate Student Coordinator: Ben Miller (Philosophy)

French Culture Workshop
Faculty Coordinators: Dan Edelstein (French), J.P. Daughton (History)
Graduate Student Coordinator: Melanie Conroy (French and Italian)

Global Justice
Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop
Faculty Coordinator: Joshua Cohen (Political Science, Philosophy, and Law)
Graduate Student Coordinators: Ruth Kricheli (Political Science), Rob Barlow (Political Science)

Graphic Narrative
Faculty Coordinators: Andrea Lunsford (English), Scott Bukatman (Art, Art History, Film and Media)
Graduate Student Coordinators: Angela Becerra Vidergar (Comparative Literature), Haerin Shin (Comparative Literature), Mark Vega (English)

The Literary Public Intellectual
Faculty Coordinators: Russell Berman (Comparative Literature) and Saikat Majumdar (English)
Graduate Student Coordinator: Nikil Saval (English)

Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Humanities Center Fellows Research Workshop
Faculty Coordinators: Laura Stokes (History), Bissera Pentcheva (Art and Art History)
Graduate Student Coordinators: Erin Lichtenstein (History), Chris Kark (Iberian & Latin American Cultures), Marco Aresu (Italian Literature)

Mythos & Logos: Religion and Rationality in the Humanities
Claire and John Radway Research Workshop
Faculty Coordinators: Brent Sockness (Religious Studies), Nadeem Hussain (Philosophy)
Graduate Student Coordinators: Peter Woodford (Religious Studies), Noreen Khawaja (Religious Studies)

Republic of Letters
Faculty Coordinators: Caroline Winterer (History), Paula Findlen (History)
Graduate Student Coordinators: Marcelo Aranda (History), Biliana Kassabova (French)

Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution
Research Workshop in Honor of John Bender
Faculty Coordinators: Blair Hoxby (English), Heather Hadlock (Music)
Graduate Student Coordinators: Stephen Osadetz (English), Jenna Sutton (English)

TransAmerican Studies Working Group
Faculty Coordinators: Ramon Saldivar (English and Comparative Literature), Roland Greene (English and Comparative Literature)
Graduate Student Coordinators: Guadalupe Carrillo (English), Jennifer Harford Vargas (English), Cristina Jimenez (English)

Working Group on the Novel
Marta Sutton Weeks Research Workshop
Faculty Coordinator: Nancy Ruttenburg (English)
Graduate Student Coordinators: Sarah Allison (English), Mike Benveniste (English), Joseph Shapiro (English)

Workshop in Poetics
Faculty Coordinator: Roland Greene (English and Comparative Literature)
Graduate Student Coordinators: Kathryn Hume (English), Noam Pines (Comparative Literature)