N E W S L E T T E R
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
September 1999
Counting Down and Moving On
Before people worried about computer bugs, a new millennium was supposed to herald a “fullness of time.” Never mind that Y1K was a dud or that Y2K, correcting for old mistakes, should have arrived three or four years ago. Millennium or not, our plans for 1999-2000 are already close to full and overflowing. On my own calendar this will be my fourth and final year as director of the Center. Now and then during the year I’m going to take lame duck liberty to say something about the directions in which the Center has been moving—or not. The academic year’s first Newsletter is a good opening. It gives real content to a standing mission “to gather the diverse energies of the humanities and the arts,” but it also points in new directions. The “gathering” metaphor was Christina Gillis’s happy inspiration and is still perfectly apt. As we were reminded on the occasion of the Center’s tenth anniversary, the founding principle was that the Berkeley campus should have a combination of switchboard, forum, workshop, and occasional funding source to link the humanities disciplines and related fields in the arts, human sciences, and professions. Parallel institutions were being established elsewhere around the same time for reasons ranging from interdisciplinary interest to administrative hedging against diminishing resources, but in the ecology of the humanities at Berkeley this one would draw on traditionally strong departments that were likely, precisely because of their strengths, to lack the connections that a humanities center could build and thrive on. With a broad and deep academic hinterland, it did not need and certainly could not expect its own faculty appointments, external fellows, research and teaching agendas, or extensive staff. To tweak the metaphor a little, the Townsend Center was a “hunter-gatherer” on the graph of academic evolution. This proved to be a winning recipe for institution-building of a cumulative sort. Costs were relatively modest and, until regular funding was secured, pegged to start-up resources rather than to the fever chart of grantsmanship. The mission was broad but open-ended so that programs could be added as needs and possibilities beckoned. There are no fewer than twelve program rubrics on our website, from the core fellows group to working groups, Center-initiated or co-sponsored events, visiting
1 professorships, publications, programs on Belief, joins the oldest of odd couples in “public values,” support for the humanities and questions charged interdisciplinary seminars, and with contemporary relevance. Scholars information for faculty and students. workingin different fields will bring their Of course the Center did not “just own definitions, dge & e ter B l n f grow” without generous infusions of e o e approaches, and w C r l i o d t e n n h
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Counting Down & Moving On concluded a year of programs on course. How are we think through the 1 international perspectives in the claims of science and religion, proof and Sepember Song 3 humanities, won a national grant from the persuasion, certainty and opinion, nature
Townsend Center Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and made and culture at this end of the century and Fellowship Group 6 fresh alliances close to home with the new the millennium? What can be learned
1999-2000 Humanities campus Consortium for the Arts, the across cultural differences and historical Funding Update 11 Institute of International Studies, the analogies over and perhaps against the
International Working Center for Japanese Studies, and our contemporary drumbeat that insists our Group Program 14 thriving offspring, the Human Rights problems of knowing and believing are
Working Groups Center. These partnerships will bring new global and unprecedented? I realize that 15 initiatives and, beginning in the fall of 2000, these are still sketchy lines of inquiry. I Calendar 16 the first post-doctoral fellows to the Center. won’t try to elaborate on them further
Townsend Center Events At the same time, the Marian E. Koshland here, however, because that is what I 23 endowment has given the Center a source anticipate from a Townsend Center series Major Lectures & Conferences 23 of “venture capital” that we have on knowledge and belief, beginning with
Performances & Exhibits committed, among other things, to a new the panel of Berkeley scholars that will 25 Forum on Science, Technology, and the launch the series on September 28. Announcements 26 Humanities and to a series of annual Meanwhile let the countdown
Townsend Center programs on issues that call for wide- begin…. Announcements 27 ranging exploration and engagement in the Randolph Starn, Director humanities. Marian E. Koshland Distinguished This year’s theme, Knowledge and Professor in the Humanities
2 September Song belief theme with two lectures scheduled for early November under the rubric,
As depicted in a recent photograph of the “Conversion in Early Modern Europe: Two east terrace of Stephens Hall, the Studies.” The first lecture, “Conversion balustrade, dominating the near distance, and Astrology: Theory, Experience and seems to demarcate a kind of stage from Cosmology,” will take place on the evening (Genevieve Shiffrar) which one looks out to the shadowy trees of November 1, the second, “Conversion Studies), Susanna Elm (History), Jodi of Faculty Glade. Clear focus in the and Autobiography: Pattern, Experience Halpern (Joint Medical Program), and foreground contrasts with trees and sky and Salvation,” the evening of November Barry Stroud (Philosophy). On October 8, that are more suggested than defined. 3. Both lectures will be at Alumni House at 12 noon in the Geballe Room, Wendy There is a sense of expectation here, of at 8 pm. Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished waiting for what is to come. Particularly Service Professor of the History of Avenali Lectures in September, we are reminded that the Religions at the University of Chicago, will In April, Bruno Latour, one of the major Center itself is a staging place where deliver a lecture entitled, "Are Carnal founders of the social studies of science people and ideas gather, and it is a site that Ignorance and Carnal Knowledge Cross- and a member of the faculty at the Centre provides both a lens and a focus on the Cultural Categories?" Future speakers will de Sociologie de l’Innovation at the Ecole activity that helps define the humanities include Steven Shapin, Professor of Des Mines de Paris, will hold the Avenali on the campus: on the conferences and Sociology at UC San Diego, who will be Chair in the Humanities attached to the symposia, residencies, lectures, working here in mid-February (specific date to be Townsend Center. Professor Latour, group meetings, and publication projects announced) to address “Vulgar author of a series of important books, that will all be part of this new year. Epistemology”; and Carlo Ginzburg, including Laboratory Life, a classic text Professor of History at UCLA, who will be exploring the different steps in the Knowledge and Belief at the Center March 6-7 to present construction of scientific facts, will spend
Knowledge and Belief, this year’s program “Stendhal’s Challenge to Historians.” three weeks on the campus . In addition initiative begins, as Randolph Starn has Exploring the sometimes vexed territory to delivering the Avenali Lecture, which already mentioned, on September 28 at 4 of knowledge and belief, the Center also will take up the politics of nature, Professor pm in the Geballe Room (220 Stephens), plans in the course of the year various Latour will conduct a special seminar in with a panel entitled “Knowledge and events, including film screenings and which he intends to pursue what he calls a Belief: How Do We Decide? Perspectives discussions, taking up issues such as the “systematic analysis of information Across Cultures.” Participants in the “repatriation” of relics and remains. systems” (a “critique of pure panel, which has been organized under the information”). Further details on this Una’s Lecture Center’s ongoing emphasis, “Practicing year’s Avenali residency will be This year’s Una Lecturer, Anthony the Humanities at Berkeley,” include announced in a future newsletter. Grafton, Professor of History at Princeton, Aditya Behl (South and Southeast Asian contributes also to the knowledge and Studies), Daniel Boyarin (Near Eastern
3 Fellows Question of Philosophy,” a conference The Townsend Fellows Group meets where the “talking cure” of psychoanalysis weekly for lunch and presentation of work is intended to meet the “reason” of in progress. Details on the 1999-2000 philosophy, has been organized for Group appear in a special article on page September 25-26 by Professor Judith Butler six of this Newsletter. and the Department of Rhetoric. The conference will take place on September Working Groups 25-29 (see conference listing in this The Townsend Center Working Groups Newsletter). On the same weekend program remains one of the strongest of (September 24-25), the Department of our core programs. As noted in the listing, Classics and the Bancroft Library sponsor and also on the Townsend Center's own “The Tebtunis Papyri: the First 100 Years,” Web site (http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ a symposium planned in conjunction with townsend/), a growing number of Working an exhibit at the Bancroft Library entitled Groups have now organized, in addition “Ancient Lives: The Tebtunis Papyri in to their regular meetings, lectures, film Context.” Conference sessions will screenings, mini conferences, and so on, demonstrate the significance of the websites of their own that can be accessed Tebtuinis materials to a wide range of through the Townsend Center home page. topics and methodologies and point up directions for further study. As a result of the application cycle that ended in May 1999, the following new In October, the Center for Studies in Higher Working Groups join the roster for 1999- Education, in cooperation with the 2000: Asian Visualities; California Studies; Townsend Center and several other Indigenous Peoples in the America; campus units, sponsors “The University Interdisciplinary Marxist Studies; Loyalty Oath: A 50th Anniversary Literature and the Visual Arts; South and Retrospective.” The conference, scheduled Southeast Asian Literary History; and for October 7-8, will present the views of Visual Studies Working Group. The total several former UC presidents as well as number of Working Groups this year those of non-signers of the oath. In a (including journal projects) is fifty-five. special related event, work by artist Margaret Peterson O’Hagen, another non- Conferences signer, will be on display at the Townsend Supported in part by the Townsend Center. On December 3-4, Professor Larry Center’s grant program, several campus Hyman, in the Department of Linguistics, conferences have been announced for 1999- plans the “Conference on 2000, a list that will no doubt grow as the year progresses. “Psychoanalysis and the
4 Constrastiveness,” an investigation of how has funded the postdoctoral fellow at friend of Townsend who remained active the Saussurian notion of “contrast” and Berkeley. She will be concerned with the in her own artistic production into her “opposition” figure (or should figure) in university’s special role in producing both early nineties. current research. The conferences asks art and humanities “knowledge” and the Occasional Papers whether there are pressures in ways in which the arts and humanities phonological systems to maintain complement one another in this process. The Center produced in 1998-99 Numbers contrastiveness, and whether these Although not due to arrive until next 13-17 of its Occasional Papers series: Dark pressures manifest themselves in language academic year, Berkeley’s Woodrow Raptures: Mike Davis’ LA (Mike Davis, change. Wilson postdoctoral fellow will fill an Timothy Clark, Kerwin Klein, David Reid), important role in linking work in the arts The Artwork and the Historical Future
In the spring term, March 17-19, the with that in the humanities. The Townsend (Arthur Danto, Charles Altieri, Anthony Berkeley Language Center, under the Center acknowledges the support of the Cascardi, and Anne Wagner), The Future of direction of Professor Claire Kramsch, Deans of Humanities and of Literary Studies, (Alan Liu, Albert Ascoli, convenes “Language Socialization and Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Sharon Marcus, Miryam Sas), and The Acquisition: Ecological Perspectives.” In Programs, in helping to make the Novel in Africa, the text of Una’ Lecture its emphasis upon “ecological” approaches fellowship possible. delivered by South African novelist John to language acquisition and use, the Coetzee in November 1998. The Philosopher Humanities Perspectives on conference focuses its attention upon in Old Age: The Case of Isaiah Berlin (Michael Aging language learning as social and cultural Ignatieff, Robert Alter, and Michael Once again in 1999-2000, funding provided practice. Bernstein) will appear at a later date. by the Academic Geriatric Resource
Humanities and the Arts Program will help support Townsend Issues 13-17 were supported by the Dean In part to celebrate a recent award from the Center programs that bring humanities of the Graduate Division, with the addition Woodrow Wilson Foundation for a perspectives to bear on issues of suffering, of a grant from the Walter and Elise Haas postdoctoral fellow in arts and humanities, aging, and dying. Fund for dissemination costs. The Papers, to be attached to the Townsend Center for which enable the Center to extend to wider two years starting in September 2000, The representation of aging in both the audiences programs that have proved Alberta Arthurs, former Director of the visual and performing arts, the analysis of particularly significant in a given academic Arts and Humanities program at the aging as a category in the criticism and year, are available in both print and Rockefeller Foundation, will speak at the interpretation of art, and the relationship electronic formats (see Center website for Townsend Center on Friday, Nov. 12 as between aging, perception, and creativity details). guest of the Center and the Consortium for in the visual arts all inform a program Christina M. Gillis the Arts. Dr. Arthurs will address several entitled “Looking at Age in Art,” that is Associate Director issues related to “Practicing the Arts/ being planned for late October. The Producing Knowledge,” the topic under program will be dedicated to the memory which the Woodrow Wilson Foundation of artist Mindy Saliterman, a particular
5 Townsend Center The Townsend Center takes pleasure once art and architecture), and Andrea Fellowship Group again in introducing the members of the Zemgulys (English). Graduate student 1999-2000 Fellows Group. Eleven graduate students Fellows funded by the Townsend Center who have been advanced to candidacy and receive stipends of $12,000. four assistant professors have been named Townsend Center Fellows for 1999-2000. Julian Bourg, a candidate for the Ph.D in Together with four tenured Faculty History and the holder this year of the Jean Fellows and a Library Fellow, they will and Irving Stone Fellowship, is writing a constitute the twelfth Townsend Center dissertation entitled “Ethics in France, Fellows Group. 1965-1984.” The dissertation examines the widespread fascination with ethical The first program established at a questions among many French Townsend Center, the Fellows Group intellectuals, activists, and artists in the receives core funding from the Doreen B. period from the mid-sixties to the mid- Townsend endowment with significant eighties. Motivated by a sense that support as well from the Graduate pervasive worries about shared moral and Division, the President’s Research political vocabulary need to be addressed Initiative in the Humanities, and Una’s in historically comprehensive and Gift. Special endowments for graduate integrative terms, Bourg intends a study student support have been created by of the remarkable variety of ethical cultures Jeffrey Berg and by Irving and Jean Stone. that developed in France in the period and Several graduate student fellows and one hence a “partial revision” of the a tendency assistant professor are funded by external among American humanities scholars to grants this year. reduce French culture in the period to one group of theorists. Graduate Student Fellows
Joining the 1999-2000 Fellows Groups are Elizabeth Dungan, who will hold a graduate students Julian Bourg (History), dissertation fellowship from the American Elizabeth Dungan (History of Art), John Council of Learned Societies (Henry Luce Fisher (Dramatic Art), Alison Hurley Foundation/ACLS Fellowship Program in (English), Sarah Kennel (History of Art), American Art) during her year as a Andrew Lakoff (Anthropology), Shai Lavi Townsend Fellow, looks to intersections (Jurisprudence and Social Policy), Eugenio between medical models of illness— Menegon (History), Katrin Pahl (Rhetoric), imaging technologies and diagnostic Spyros Papapetros (interdisciplinary techniques, CAT scans, X-rays and blood program in theory and historiography of tests—and concomitant representations of
6 the body by contemporary American Emphasizing the harmonizing possibilities artists in a dissertation entitled “Discourses of “good conversation” (the art of living on Disease and Representations of the together with others) in eighteenth-century Body, 1980-1995.” Looking particularly at England, Hurley finds in English resort the work of Hannah Wilke, Felix Gonzalez- towns of the period not only the cultural Torres, Robert Gober, and Kiki Smith, arenas in which, ideally, such conversation Dungan hopes to demonstrate that artistic could flourish, but also, a coherent and Townsend Fellows, 1998-99 (Eric Gillet) production in the period not only makes “new” phenomenon of resort culture use of new protocols of looking, and new which, like the novel, arose from and marginal in the academy, as a cultural procedures of imaging, but offers an engaged in a peculiar complex of socio- practice. important site for re-imagining the body historical conditions. Alison Hurley has and its diseases. been named Una’s Fellow at the Center this Andrew Lakoff, a Ph.D. candidate in year. Anthropology, explores in his dissertation, In a dissertation entitled “De-Camping: “Pharmaceutical Reason: Subject and Towards a Gay-Political-Camp Theatre,” Sarah Kennel, who will be supported by Psychotrope in Buenos Aires,” how John Fisher, a candidate for the Ph.D. in a grant from the Center for Advanced cosmopolitan science constitutes Dramatic Art, examines the political uses Studies in the Visual Arts at the National contemporary norms of personhood, and of camp theory and how the latter apply Gallery in Washington D.C. in 1999-2000, how these norms, taken on as identities, to a theatre of protest. For Fisher, who is is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Art function in a given social milieu. Lakoff’s also a writer and director, “decamping” working on a dissertation entitled “Bodies, fieldwork includes study, in both Paris and suggests movement to a new notion of Statues, Machines: Dance and Modernism Buenos Aires, of a French genomics camp and a broader idea of camp’s in France.” The dissertation considers how company engaged in collecting and possibilities as a tool for bringing about the fluid interchange between the visual analyzing DNA samples from mental social change. Maintaining a focus on live and performing arts characteristic of early patients in an Argentine mental hospital. theatrical performance, John Fisher views twentieth century offered to artists new His strategy is to follow a class of objects– camp as an act of serious political materials, techniques and modes of in this case, psychopharmaceuticals, or commentary that may take place in the imagining and representing the human molecules designed to transform behavior midst of the apparently frivolous. John body and its relation to modernity. through action on the brain–as they Fisher has been named the Jeffrey Berg Kennel’s methodology, drawing upon assemble, across institutional and Fellow for 1999-2000. Freudian psychoanalytic theory, epistemological spaces, what might be materialist understanding of the “work” of called a neuroscientific subject. Andrew Alison Hurley, a Ph.D. candidate in culture, and feminist theorizations of Lakoff has been named Marian E. English, will be working during the tenure gender, sexuality and identity, is intended Koshland Fellow for 1999-2000. of her fellowship on a dissertation entitled to demonstrate the importance of the study “Resort Conversations: Bath and the of dance, which has remained somewhat In his dissertation, “Legislating the Good Eighteenth-Century English Novel.” Death: The Regulation of Hastened Death
7 in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century to offer a picture of how Christians in these America,” Shai Lavi, a Ph.D. candidate in communities were acting out their new Jurisprudence and Social Policy, asks what faith in relation to local religious traditions. cultural, social, legal and medical changes had to occur in order for death to become A candidate for the Ph.D in Rhetoric with subject to human will. Under what a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, historical conditions and in what ways has and Sexuality, Katrin Pahl is writing a law come to endorse actions that hasten the dissertation entitled “The Feminine at end of life? Central to Lavi’s study is the Work in Philosophy: Emotional Labor in thesis that the answers to such questions Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.” Pahl’s depend not only on the advancement of intent is to argue that “Spirit’s” work of technology, the structure of the medical self-reflection in the Phenomenology is an profession, the rise of patients’ rights, or emotional work, in particular a work of the growing power of the state; rather we fear, of despair, and of mourning. She must look to deeper cultural draws upon contemporary women writers, transformations in our understanding of both in the French context of ecriture what a good death is, and what sanctity of feminine and in the North American context life signifies. of literature by women of color, to reevaluate the emotional as a productive In “Ancestors, Gods, and the Lord of force and as a resource for the process of Heaven: A Social History of Christianity understanding. in 17th and 18th-Century Fujian (China),” Eugenio Menegon, a candidate for the Issues of animism, animation and empathy Ph.D. in History, examines the origins and as applied in artifacts, as well as in art and development of Christian communities architectural texts, engage the dissertation evangelized by Dominican friars in of Spyros Papapetros, a graduate student northeastern Fujian (China) between 1625 in an ad hoc interdisciplinary Ph.D. and 1785. Menegon, who will be program in “theory and historiography of supported by a Mabelle McLeod Memorial art and architecture.” Titled “On the Fund fellowship during his year as Animation of the Inorganic: ‘Life in Townsend Fellow, uses rare Christian Movement’ in the Art and Architecture of sources in Chinese and in Western Modernity,” the dissertation investigates languages (religious literature and its topic from a variety of critical angles– missionary correspondence), as well as art history, social and intellectual history, sources on local history and religious ethnography and psychoanalysis–and traditions , and Qing government reports, argues that while empathy, a capacity for
8 identification with the external world, was Medical Sciences); and Miryam Sas, from agriculture, botany, and moral philosophy, fundamentally repressed by modernist Comparative Literature and East Asian the georgic, Goodman argues, uses egos, it returned metamorphically Languages. Professor Goodman will be epithets that originated in Virgil to projected, objectified and finally reified funded in part during her tenure at the question the notion of writing as “work” into the inorganic form of the “animistic” Center by a Fellowship from the or “honorable toil” What, asks Professor artifacts of twentieth century modernism. Huntington Library. Goodman, distinguished the “literary” Spyros Papetros holds a Chacellor’s from other kinds of writing and conversely, Dissertation Fellowship during his tenure An interdisciplinary study of film, what might be its power in rendering as a Townsend Fellow. literature, and the law, Professor Stephen material that was coming to be regarded Best’s book project, The Fugitive’s Properties: as inimical to it? Professor Goodman came
Andrea Zemgulys, a candidate for the Law and the Poetics of Possession explores to Berkeley in 1994 from Yale, where she Ph.D. in English, is writing a dissertation the connections between two spheres also received her Ph.D. entitled “Writers’ Blocks: Modernist eccentric to the law of real property: slave Authorship and Literary Geography in the law and intellectual property law, domains During her year as a Townsend Fellow, London Metropolis 1880-1939.” Zemgulys in which an emphasis on fleeting and Jodi Halpern, who is both a philosopher will examine how a “literary London” was fugitive properties serves to redefine the and an assistant professor of medical created by London’s municipal very essence of property in nineteenth- humanities, will work on a book project government, topographers, novelists, and century America. Best scrutinizes entitled Biologic and Social Determinants of tour book writers at the turn of the century; phenomena such as the emergence of Human Agency: Is the Ethical Ideal of and how British modernist writers of the intellectual rights in one’s countenance, Autonomy Outmoded? This project, early twentieth century engaged with this vocal style, idea and thoughts, literary Professor Halpern points out, is a London in defining themselves and their expressions and other aspects of “philosophy book,” making use of art. This is to ague that between literature personality in order to track the expansion knowledge of neurosciences, genetics and and the city lay a complex of of notions of property to include the social theories of the emotions. It will interpretations and practices that abstract and intangible. Professor Best argue that the ideal of autonomy is a conditioned how the city would change received his Ph.D. at the University of necessary normative construct for any and how literature would change with it. Pennsylvania and joined the English human deliberation viewed from the Department at Berkeley in 1997. perspective of the agent. But in light of Faculty Fellowships increasing evidence that dispositions Four untenured faculty members join the Kevis Goodman, also an Assistant influencing self-sufficiency or the Fellowship Group in 1999-2000 with Professor in English, has received a exercising of autonomy are themselves Townsend Fellowships equal to 50% Townsend Fellowship for Passionate Work: biologically and socially determined, research leave. They are Stephen Best and Georgics of the Feelings, 1746-1815. A “weird Halpern seek to interrogate how a notion Kevis Goodman, both from the and hybrid form, a prose-like and of autonomy can retain its normative role. Department of English; Jodi Halpern from deliberately prosaic poem,” part fact and Professor Halpern received both the Ph.D the Joint Medical Program (Health and part fiction, a combination of myth, history, (Philosophy) and M.D. from Yale.
9 Senior Faculty and Miryam Sas‘ book in progress, Performance Library Fellows Unbound: On Post-war Japanese Theater, is Also included in the Fellows Group are concerned with how recent theories of four tenured faculty members and a active and performative memorialization Library Fellow, each of whom receives a may be used to explore theatrical research stipend of $500 per semester. The developments in Japan since the 1960s. tenured faculty in 1999-2000 are Susanna Professor Sas, who received her Ph.D. from Elm (History), a scholar of the later Roman Yale, will focus on experimental aesthetics, Empire and its transformation after the and on issues of trauma and historical and legitimization of Christianity; Paul Groth cultural remembrance, in an exploration of (Architecture) whose work focuses on the work of central playwrights/directors American cultural landscape and the in Japan in the period. She will examine history, form, and meaning of ordinary how the memories of events create an built environments; Caren Kaplan ethical demand for a form of telling that (Women’s Studies) currently working on breaks the frames of narrative and a project entitled “Transporting the Subject: psychologically realistic theater. As in her Cultures of Identity in an Era of earlier work, Sas, who teaches in both East Globalization”; and Barry Stroud Asian Languages and Comparative (Philosophy), who works mainly in Literature, intend to bridge the gap epistemology, metaphysics, and the history between European theoretical and of philosophy. This year’s Library Fellow theatrical studies and Japanese culture and is Samuel Trosow, of the Law Library. literary works, looking for intersections Trosow is currently examining between the work of Japanese playwrights information seeking and use patterns of and their European counterparts: Beckett, humanities scholars in order to determine Genet, and Artaud. how the “anti-circumvention” rules contained in the recently enacted Digital Millennium Copyright Acts might adversely affect the creation, dissemination, and use of knowledge.
10 1999-2000 HUMANITIES Don’t forget to check the As for print sources . . . web . . . FUNDING UPDATE Web information should be used together If the funding picture in the humanities with notices appearing in print sources reflects only modest changes over the such as The Chronicle of Higher Education decade, and the number and kind of or the various professional newsletters and sources is relatively stable, the search brochures. As ever, the best advice is to process has been greatly transformed by research the sources as broadly as possible. the availability of information on the web. The Townsend Center also continues to It is now much easier to find the sources make available to faculty and to graduate and, in many cases, to gain access to the students about to finish the Ph.D. a appropriate forms. Both American Council collection of print information on of Learned Societies and John Simon postdoctoral and general fellowship Guggenheim Foundation application programs. A list of organizations for which forms may now be downloaded from the we have material will also be distributed web (although prospective applicants to departments (graduate students seeking should read the guidelines carefully, dissertation funding are urged to consult especially those relevant to eligibility). The the Graduate Fellowship Office at 318 Townsend Center’s own website is an Sproul). excellent access point to grants information. It can be consulted at http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/townsend Programs of Special Note
The ACLS, the Guggenheim Foundation, President’s Research Fellowships in the and the NEH, as well as centers such as Humanities the Harry Ransom Humanities Research http://www.ucop.edu/research/ Center at the University of Texas, Austin, prfh.html or the Center for Twentieth-Century Deadline: October 8, 1999 Application Studies at the University of Wisconsin, packets for the President’s Research Milwaukee, can all be accessed through the Fellowships in the Humanities are Townsend site. Links to other, more available at the Townsend Center and in complete, grants indexes will also be found the Office of the Dean of Humanities, 201 there. Especially useful, for example, is the Campbell Hall. Faculty Grants Directory of the Association of the Theological Schools, an excellent list Active ladder rank faculty, including for all humanities and humanities-related lecturers, who are members of the scholars seeking fellowship information Academic Senate may apply for (also available in print format).
11 President’s Research Fellowships. All Recently Tenured Scholars. Grants of up applicants, except those applying in the to $65,000, an amount considerably higher Junior Faculty category, must also apply than that of the regular ACLS Fellowship, to an appropriate extramural agency; and will be available to recently tenured faculty all applicants for President’s Fellowships who have “undertaken long-term, must have accrued at least two quarters or unusually ambitious projects in the one semester of sabbatical credit by June humanities and social sciences.” 30 in the year in which the Fellowship Ordinarily, the Burkhardt Fellowship is awards are announced. Over the past four intended to support an academic year years of the program, the proportion of (normally nine months) of residence at any awards to applications was approximately one of nine national residential research one in four. centers. Please see ACLS website or brochure for details. American Council of Learned Societies Deadline: October 1, 1999. 228 East 45th St., New York, NY 19917- 3398. Ph. 212-697-1505. www/acls.org Following the same schedule and Fellowships deadline (postmark): October eligibility requirements as regular ACLS 1, 1999. Written requests for application Fellowships, the ACLS and the New York forms must be received by September 28. Public Library Fellowships, will be offered Forms may be downloaded from the web again in the year 2000-2001. Up to five at
12 The Center for Scholars and Writers The New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Postdoctoral Programs for New or Proposal Writing Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, Workshop NY 19918-2788 (e-mail: [email protected]). Recent Recipients of the Ph.D. Deadline: October 1, 1999. This year the Townsend Center’s Fall (examples; consult, by institution, Grants Meeting for faculty or other listings on the web or in hard copy for Guggenheim Foundation individuals who currently hold the Ph.D. in 90 Park Ave. New York, NY 10016. Ph. more complete information) 212-687-4470. a humanities or humanities-related http://www.gf.org discipline will be held on Thursday Deadline: Oct. 1, 1999 Columbia University, Society of Fellows in the Humanities Forms may be requested by letter, or may September 9, at 12 noon, 220 Stephens be downloaded from the web. Heyman Center for the Humanities, Mail Code 5700 Hall. The meeting, a brown-bag lunch 2960 Broadway discussion, will be led by Christina Gillis, National Humanities Center Fellowships New York, NY 10027 x 100 Central Mail Room, New York, NY Program Associate Director at the Center. Christina P.O. Box 12256, Research Triangle Park, 10027 NC 27709-2256 Deadline: October 15, 1999 Gillis’ book on proposal writing, Scholarly http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080 Arguments, as well as sample proposals, E-mail: [email protected] Cornell University, Society for the Humanities Deadline: October 15, 1999 will be available at the meeting. Please call Andrew D. White Center for the Humanities the Center (643-9670) if you are a faculty 27 East Ave., Ithaca, NY 14853-1101 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship member planning to attend the Fall Grants Deadline: Jan 4, 2000 meeting. Faculty are also invited to make Postdoctoral Fellowship Deadline: Oct. 21, 1999 an appointment to discuss their projects
University of Michigan, Michigan with Christina Gillis. Society of Fellows 3030 Rackham Bldg. University of Michigan A workshop for graduate students 915 E. Washington St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070 planning applications for postdoctoral http://rackham.umich.edu/Faculty/ funding will be scheduled in early October society.htm Deadline: October 9, 1999 and announced in the Newsletter.
Stanford Humanities Center Mariposa House, 546 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-8630. Ph. 650-723- 3052. Fax 650-723-1895 http://shc.stanford.edu/ Deadline: November 15, 1999
Woodrow Wilson Center, Fellowships Office The Woodrow Wilson Center One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20523 http://wwics.si.edu phone: 202-691-4170 Deadline: October 1, 1999
13 International With the aim of encouraging international 2. description of project and proposed Working Group research collaboratives, the Townsend role of Berkeley and non-Berkeley Program Center continues to offer this year grants members to facilitate research connections between Working Groups at Berkeley–already 3. identification of proposed non-North existing Townsend Center Working American participants (titles and Groups, as well as new groups of faculty institutional affiliations) with supporting and graduate students that may be material indicating agreement to formed-and their counterparts outside participate North America. Funds of up to $2500 may be used toward the costs of workshops 4. Budget rationale and description (eg. involving both Berkeley and international information technology costs, travel, etc). participants, and/or the exchange of Note: If budget includes information research and discussion in electronic technology costs (web site construction, forms. Funds may be used to defray travel etc) please include specific plan for by Berkeley members to cooperatively completion of the work and indicate planned workshops abroad. Normally, the whether parallel electronic accessibility is maximum amount available for any one available at the site outside North America. person is $500. International Working Group Program funds may not be used for Deadline: Flexible administrative costs or, except in special cases, for travel for non-Berkeley participants. Proposals will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
A proposal for the International Working Group Program should include the following:
1. name and departmental affiliation of Berkeley members (graduate student applicants must include name of faculty sponsor)
14 working groups and other individuals from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds who are interested in the area of Asian September Activities Americans and religion.
Asian Visualities Working Group The Townsend Center Working Groups Program brings together, Contact: Deborah Stein, 848-2897, [email protected] from various fields and departments, faculty and graduate or Soo H. Kim, 235-9539, [email protected] students with shared research interests. The group offers an opportunity for interdisciplinary peer critique for scholars of various visual media from ancient Activism in the Academy through contemporary Asia. Students and faculty will Contact: Amy Corbin, 215-7348, [email protected] explore theoretical issues spanning gender studies, The group is concerned with the place of graduate students in anthropology, religion, history, literature, and political the academy and their participation in social movements analysis. and community work outside the academy. September 2 (Thursday), 5:00-7:00 p.m., Townsend Center The group meets for lectures and discussions and invites Seminar Room (220 Stephens). The group will hold an suggestions for topics. This year the group will sponsor organizational meeting. a film/arts event focusing on issues of urban youth. Contact the organizers for information on the first works in Contact Amy Corbin to be added to the email list and for progress session, scheduled for late September. information on the September meeting. Berkeley New Music Project Analyses of Racism in Biomedicine Contact: Fernando Benadon, (925)827-5949, [email protected] (formerly Interrogating Biomedicine, Health and Technology: The B.N.M.P. is a group dedicated to the performance of music Subjugated Peoples) written by Berkeley graduate student composers, as well Contact: Alexandro Jose Gradilla, 649-8799, as to the education of audiences with respect to [email protected] or Beatriz Eugenia Tapia, contemporary art music. [email protected] Drawing on the work of Freire, Foucault, and Angela Davis, British History Reading Group the group examines biomedicine and western medical Contact: Michelle Tusan, (707)748-1198, traditions. Discussions focus on the social, economic and [email protected] political inequality of racialized or minoritized groups, The group discusses recent work in British history in light of as well as issues of gender and sexuality. developments in cultural studies, imperial and post- Contact the organizers for details on the September meeting. colonial history, gender studies, and comparative history.
Anthropology of Childhood and Youth California Studies Lectures Contact: Benedito Rodrigues dos Santos, 655-0314, Contact: Richard Walker, 642-3901, [email protected]; or Joshua Linford- [email protected] or Delores Dillard, Steinfeld, 665-5892, [email protected]; or http:// [email protected] ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/anthro-child/ The group brings together faculty, students and independent The group includes students and faculty from anthropology, scholars from around the Bay Area for a series of lectures sociology, psychology, and social welfare who are on California history and society. interested in exploring research methods and social theories in the developing field of anthropology of Central Asia/Silk Road Working Group childhood. Members meet monthly to discuss literature Contact: Sanjyot Mehendale, 643-5265, and theory and to develop possibilities for action on [email protected]; Bruce C. Williams, 642- behalf of youth and children. 2556, [email protected]; or [email protected] Armenian Studies Working Group The group offers an interdisciplinary forum for faculty and Contact: Stephan Astourian, 642-4426, [email protected] or students to discuss issues related to Central Asian and Barbara Voytek, 643-6736, Silk Road cultures from the earliest times to the present. [email protected] This group is part of an ongoing interdisciplinary, program on Chicana and Latina Studies Working Group Armenian Studies for students, faculty, and scholars. Contact: Irene Lara, 665-1517, [email protected] or Christina Grijalva, 848-9521, Asian Americans and Religion [email protected] Contact: Carolyn Chen, 643-1956, This group brings together female and male faculty and [email protected]; Sheba George, 643-1956, graduate students interested in the study of Chicana and [email protected]; or http:// Latina issues. ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/api-religion September 9 (Thursday), 5:30 p.m., Ethnic Studies Conference This working group brings together graduate students, faculty, Room (5th floor, Barrows). The group will hold an
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15 CALENDAR Lectures and Conferences thursday, august 26 thursday, september 9 Center for Middle Eastern Studies • CMES College of Environmental Design • CED Lecture Series Interdisciplinary Lecture Series Ryoji Suzuki • Experience in Material Film • ”Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt” 7:00pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater, Hearst Field Annex, [1996] Bldg A Introduced by Margaret Larkin 7:30pm • 2060 Valley Life Sciences Building friday, september 10 Center for Chinese Studies • Berkeley China Colloquium sunday, august 29 Series Berkeley Art Museum Lowell Dittmer • Learning and Chinese Foreign Policy Tobias Rehberger • Gallery Talk 4:15pm • IEAS 6th Floor Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St. 3:00pm • Museum Terrace outside Gallery B monday. august 30 monday, september 13 UC History Project - Center for Studies in Higher Education Center for Middle Eastern Studies• CMES Interdisciplinary David Hollinger • Money and Academic Freedom Fifty Years Lecture Series after the Loyalty Oath: Berkeley and Its Peers Amid the Force Fields Mehrdad Mashayekhi • Movements for Democracy and Civil of Capital Society in Post-Revolutionary Iran 4:00pm • Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall 4:00pm • 442 Stephens Hall
Music • 1999 Ernest Bloch Lectures thursday, september 2 David Huron • Music and Mind: Foundations of Cognitive Musicology College of Environmental Design • CED Lecture Series 8:00pm • Hertz Hall Marc Treib • The Philips Pavilion; Le Corbusier; Edgard Varese 7:00pm • Pacific Film Archive Theater, Hearst Field Annex, Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Building A Maria Tysiachniouk • Russian NGOs: Activities and Operating Strategies in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras Lunch Poems Reading Series 12 noon • 270 Stephens Hall Robert Hass • Lunch Poems Reading Series Fall Kickoff Various campus figures read their favorite poems 12:10pm • Morrison Room, Doe Library wednesday, september 15 Interdisciplinary Studies Renate Holub • Major Trends in Italian Culture: 1950-2000 tuesday, september 7 4:00pm • 223 Moses Hall Center for Theater Arts Making Theater Rhodessa Jones • Rhodessa Jones and the Medea Project thursday, september 16 7:00pm • Durham Studio Theatre Berkeley Art Museum Lawrence Weschler • a response to Tobias Rehberger's installation, Sunny-side Up wednesday, september 8 7:00pm • Museum terrace outside Gallery B Center for Middle Eastern Studies CMES Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, Fall 1999 Center for South Asia Studies Jere Bacharach • Architecture and Political Power in the Pre- Workshop • New Literary Histories for Nineteenth Century India: 1500 Islamic World Mapping the Terrain 5:00pm • 370 Dwinelle Hall Talks by 14 scholars from India, Europe and USA 9:00 am • Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
16 friday, september 17 friday, september 24 Center for South Asia Studies Berkeley Language Center Workshop • New Literary Histories for Nineteenth Century India: Nicolas Shumway • Navigating the Academic Rapids: What I Mapping the Terrain Wish I Had Known Back When Talks by 14 scholars from India, Europe and USA 3:00pm • The Seaborg Room, Men’s Faculty Club 9:00 am • contact CSAS for location information: 642-3608 Center for Chinese Studies • Berkeley China Colloquium Series College of Environmental Design/Art Practice David Johnson • Down There on a Visit: A Historian in ‘The Field’ Dan Solomon, Paul Adamson, Kevin Alter • Building the 4:15pm • IEAS 6th Floor Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St. Dream: The Eichler Houses 7:00pm • Room 1, Pimentel Hall Music • 1999 Ernest Bloch Lectures David Huron • Is Music an Evolutionary Adaptation? saturday, september 18 4:30pm• Elkus Room, 125 Morrison Hall Center for South Asia Studies saturday, september 25 Workshop • New Literary Histories for Nineteenth Century India: Mapping the Terrain Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology Talks by 14 scholars from India, Europe and USA Conference • Out of the Tower and Off of the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Questions of Philosophy 9:00 am • Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall ge & ed B 2:30pm • Berkeley Jewish Community Center, l nter e fo e w C r l i o d t e n 1414 Walnut Street h n
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17 working groups Enlightenment Studies (formerly Bay Area Eighteenth-Century Studies) Continued from Page 15 Contact: Matthew Erlin, (925)376-9372, [email protected] The group provides a forum for scholars working on all aspects of the European Enlightenment, from its 17th and 18th-century articulations to its more recent critical introductory meeting and reception for all interested reception. During the fall semester, the group will faculty and graduate students. Please contact the discuss Kant’s “Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of organizers if you plan to attend. View.” Anyone interested in participating should contact Matt Erlin. Colonialism and Culture Contact: Anne Keary, 649-8732, [email protected] Experimental Phonology Circle This group provides a forum for exploring the discourses and Contact: Lily Liaw, 642-4938, [email protected] practices of colonialism in both theoretical and historical The group provides a network of resources for scholars frameworks. The group welcomes scholars from a range interested in experimental phonology. of disciplines for talks, film screenings, and discussion of The group meets weekly for spectrogram readings, discussion readings. of articles and rehearsal of conference talks. For details September 1 (Wednesday), 6:00 p.m., location T.B.A. The group on the group’s activities, please email Lily Liaw. will hold an organizational meeting. Folklore Roundtable Comparison and Interdisciplinary Studies Contact: Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, 655-3912, Contact: Jennifer Greiman, [email protected] or [email protected] ; Tok Thompson, 658- Laura Schattschneider, [email protected] 0995, [email protected]; or http://ls.berkeley.edu/ The group focuses on ways and means of comparing texts in a dept/folklore/roundtable.html variety of media across and within disciplines. The group investigates trends in folklore research and explores September 8 (Wednesday), 12:00 noon, Comparative Lit. the reigning paradigms and perspectives in different Conference Room (4104 Dwinelle). Despina Kakoudaki disciplines. (Comparative Lit.) will present work from an ongoing September 2 (Thursday), 5:15 p.m., Folklore Archives (110 project on the visual representation of artificial Kroeber). The group will hold an organizational meeting. intelligence. Readings will be available in advance. Graduate Film Studies Working Group Computers and the Humanities Contact: Michael Sicinski, 351-7779, Contact: Merrilee Proffitt, 643-3203, [email protected] or Jonah Ross, 843-3237, [email protected] or Tim Hoyer, 643-3203, [email protected] [email protected] The group promotes scholarly discussion among graduate The group discusses topics in humanities computing and students studying film in many departments; the group introduces faculty and staff to available tools and also provides access to technical training in film and techniques by organizing lectures, seminars, and video production. workshops. September 10 (Friday), 3:00 p.m., Classics/Rhetoric Lounge (7th floor, Dwinelle). The group will hold an Early Modern Studies Group organizational meeting. Contact: Timothy Hampton, 642-2188, [email protected] or Albert Ascoli, 643- Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley 2640, [email protected]. Contact: Katie Vulic, 655-4925, [email protected] or The group provides a forum for faculty and students in Pre- Martha Rust, 595-8171, [email protected] and Early Modern Studies to share ideas. Anyone The group provides a forum for graduate medievalists from interested in being on the mailing list should contact the various disciplines to exchange and develop linguistic organizers. and documentary resources; the group also hosts colloquia for graduate student work. Emergence of German Modernism, 1890-1930 September 6 (Monday), 4:00 p.m., English Dept. Lounge (330 Contact: Anna Wertz, 666-8417, [email protected] or Wheeler). The group will hold an organizational meeting Robert McFarland, 548-6566, and will begin planning the fall conference. [email protected] In conjunction with working groups in Vienna and Tübingen, Health and Human Rights Working Group the group studies the period of rapid industrialization Contacts: Corinne Keet, 845-2905, [email protected] and modernization from 1890-1930. or Ippolytos Kalofonos, 843-6055, [email protected] Bringing together students and faculty from the Joint Medical
18 Program with U.C.S.F. and the School of Public Health as Italian Research and Study Group (IRAS) well as other interested individuals, the group will Contact: Renate Holub, 643-1994, [email protected] explore the intersection of medical, public health and The group meets regularly to study Italian culture, history, human rights discourses. The group provides a forum society, and politics in the era of globalization. This year, for discussion of questions in medical ethics, social the group will focus on multicultural Italy and on Islam justice and community health policy. Contact the in Italy and Southern Europe. organizers for further information. September 15 (Wednesday), 4:00 p.m., 223 Moses. Renate Holub (Interdisciplinary Studies) will speak: “Major History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Trends in Italian Culture: 1950-2000.” Contact: Richard Zach, (415) 431-2135, September 15 (Wednesday), 6:00 p.m., 223 Moses. The group [email protected]; Johannes Hafner, 558-0545, will hold an introductory meeting. [email protected]; or http:// math.berkeley.edu/~zach/hplm Jewish Cultures Reading Group The group provides a forum for the discussion of issues in the Contact: Hamutal Tsamir, 843-5177, history of modern symbolic logic, in particular in [email protected] and Benjamin Lazier, 548- connection with its role in the foundations of 4970, [email protected] mathematics, and of research in philosophy of logic and The group meets to discuss texts of historical, literary, critical, mathematics. and philosophical interest relating to Jewish cultures. Abstracts and works-in-progress are welcome. Indigenous Peoples in the Americas Contact: Charlotte Cote, 235-7738, [email protected] Late Antique Religion and Society or Michael Tsosie, (650)992-5520 Contact: Tina Sessa, (415) 252-0508, The group provides a forum for scholars to address historical [email protected] and contemporary questions pertaining to indigenous The group provides an interdisciplinary forum for the peoples in North and South America. comparative study of religious texts in Late Antiquity.
Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group Law and the Humanities Contact: Deborah Anderson, (408) 255-4842, Contact: Sara Manaugh, 654-8226, [email protected], or http://www.indo- [email protected] european.org/page4.html. This group provides a forum for graduate students and faculty The group offers a forum for the interdisciplinary study of from across the disciplines to discuss texts and present ancient Indo-European languages, drawing on work in the field of law and the humanities. Areas of linguistics, archaeology, and mythology. exploration include the constitution of the subject in law, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, and the Interdisciplinary Marxist Studies possibility of justice in law. Contact: Ruth Jennison, 666-0560, [email protected] September 9 (Thursday), 4:00 p.m., Townsend Center Seminar The group provides a forum for discussion of classical and Room (220 Stephens). The group will hold an post-Marxist critical approaches which cross disciplinary organizational meeting. boundaries. September 20 (Monday), 4:00 p.m., Townsend Center Seminar Literature and the Visual Arts Room (220 Stephens). The group will hold an Contact: Christine Schick, 486-1272, organizational meeting. All are invited to attend. [email protected] or Joshua Shannon, 845- 9519, [email protected] Intersectionalities in U.S. History The group will consider the relationship of the visual arts to Contact: Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, 663-2414, literature and will provide a forum for attentive readings [email protected]; Jason Ferreira, of both verbal and visual art. (415)550-9093, cheo@uclink4. berkeley.edu; or http:// www.stanford.edu/group/intersections Material Culture Working Group The group explores the ways in which racial ethnic, gender, Contact: Eve Meltzer, 848-7458, [email protected] sexual and class dynamics intersect in U.S. history. or James Salazar, [email protected] Discussions address contributions from fields such as The group studies interdisciplinary approaches to materiality labor history, women’s history, racial ethnic history, and and material culture artifacts, such as architecture, gay and lesbian history. The group is made up of cultural landscapes, furniture, clothing, decorative arts, students from both U.C. Berkeley and Stanford, through and the objects of everyday life. a collaboration with Stanford University’s Center for the To subscribe to the group’s electronic discussion list, send an Study of Race and Ethnicity. email to: [email protected]. In the body of the message type “subscribe materialculture_workinggroup.” To post to the list, send
19 working groups a message to: Continued from Page 19 [email protected]. September 9 (Thursday), 5:00 p.m., Rhetoric/Classics Lounge (Dwinelle, 7th floor). The group will hold an organizational meeting.
Music, Literature and Critical Theory Contact: Katherine Bergeron, [email protected] or Mary Ann Smart, 420-0377; [email protected] The group brings together graduate students and faculty interested in reading and making connections between passages of music and literature. September 23 (Thursday), 7:00 p.m., 101 Morrison. The group will discuss Avital Ronell’s article on Nietzsche, opera, and telephone communication, “Finitude’s Score.” Copies of the reading are on reserve in the Music Library (2nd floor, Morrison Hall) under the heading Music 99.
Nineteenth-Century British Cultural Studies Contact: Karen Tongson, 548-4538, [email protected] The group provides a forum for faculty and graduate students to discuss works-in-progress on social and cultural change within nineteenth-century Britain and its colonies.
Object-Relations Psychoanalysis Contact: Maria St. John, 843-6876, [email protected] The group provides an arena for the study of object-relations theory, from Klein and Winnicott to contemporary contributors, with discussion of its applications to selected topics: literature, cinema, folklore, case studies, etc. The group meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m.. Contact Maria St. John for more information.
Oral History Working Group Contact: Ann Lage, 642-7395, [email protected], Suzanne Riess, 642-7395, [email protected]; [email protected]; or http:// ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ohwg/ The Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library has assembled this group for faculty, graduate students, and staff who are conducting oral histories or using oral histories in their research or teaching. Interested persons may subscribe to the electronic list, suggest programs for the monthly meetings, or request information at [email protected]. September 17 (Friday), 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Bancroft Library, Krouzian Room. The group will hold an organizational meeting. Anyone interested is invited to bring ideas for speakers and future discussion topics on the theory and practice of oral history.
Orality and Ethnic Identity Contact: Ronelle Alexander, 642-8301, [email protected]
20 The group studies (a) the traditionally maintained conceptions discuss the work of Joanna Russ, focusing on her novel by peoples of their identity and (b) the particular means The Female Man (1975) and a selection of short stories. by which these conceptions are expressed. Contact the organizers for meeting location.
Photography Working Group South and Southeast Asian Literary History Contact: Beth Dungan, (650) 965-7922, Contact: Adrienne Copithorne, 548-4950, [email protected] [email protected] or Brandon Spars, 558- The group brings together photographers, artists, art 7065, [email protected] historians, cultural theorists, and critics who are The group provides a forum for students within the disciplines interested in the practices of photography. of South and Southeast Asian literature and history to develop their work through meetings with each other Political Theory at a Crossroads and with visiting scholars. Anyone interested in Contact: Robert Adcock, 664-0798, participating is invited to email Adrienne Copithorne. [email protected] or James Klausen, 465- September 16-18, Geballe Room, Townsend Center (220 3415, [email protected] Stephens). The group will participate in “New Literary The group investigates the current state of political theory, Histories for Nineteenth-Century India: Mapping the focusing on the history of political theory, deconstruction Terrain,” a workshop bringing together noted scholars and political theory, and political theory and the from India, Europe, and the U.S. humanities. Contact the organizers for information on the September South Asian Studies Group/SHASHANC meetings. Contact: Raba Gunasekara, Center for South Asia Studies, 642- 3608, [email protected], or http:// Psychobiography www.ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/ Contact: Stephen Walrod, 444-4068, [email protected] or The group provides a forum for scholars interested in the Marilyn Fabe, 524-2345, [email protected] humanistic study of the languages, literatures, arts, The group is made up of both faculty and graduate students in culture and society of South Asia. the Bay Area and meets regularly to discuss and present work-in-progress on issues related to psychobiography, Study of the Americas transference and counter-transference in biography and (formerly American Studies Working Group) postmodern biography. Contact: Birgit Rasmussen, 845-1939, [email protected] or [email protected] or http:// Queer Ethnic Studies socrates.berkeley.edu/~aswg Contact: Mimi Nguyen, 848-1949, [email protected] The group brings together graduate students and faculty for The group examines the discourses of sexuality and race discussion of the history, literature and society of the within the fields of Ethnic Studies and Queer Studies. Americas. To be added to the electronic list, email The group focuses on the ways in which the concepts of [email protected] and in the text of the race and queerness produced by these fields interact. message write only “subscribe amst_workg”; to post to the list, send a message to Queer Reading Group [email protected] Contact: Christopher Nealon, [email protected] The group discusses new works in gay, lesbian, and bisexual Twentieth-Century Poetry studies in a variety of disciplines. They are co-sponsored Contact: Jeremy Crean, 215-6575, by the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and [email protected] or Charles Tung, 597- Sexuality and the Dean of Arts and Humanities. 1475, [email protected] September 3 (Friday), 5:00 p.m., English Dept. Lounge (330 The group offers a forum for the discussion of poetry, readings Wheeler). The group will hold a planning meeting. in poetics, translation studies, and bilingual issues in poetry. Science Fiction and Contemporary Technology Group September 1 (Wednesday), 4:30-5:30 p.m. English Dept. Lounge Contact: Despina Kakoudaki, 528-2369, (330 Wheeler). The group will hold an organizational [email protected]; Ellen Rigsby, 883-9864, meeting. Anyone interested is invited to attend. [email protected]; or http:// www.wenet.net/~schong/sfct/ Visual Studies Working Group The group provides a forum for discussion of contemporary Contact: Timothy Higbee, 665-8995, discourses on science fiction literature, theory and film. [email protected] September 8 (Wednesday) 1:00 p.m., Comparative Literature The group will host discussions of issues in visual studies, Lounge (4114 Dwinelle). The group will hold an presentations of work in progress, and exhibitions. informational meeting. Anyone interested is invited to attend. September 24 (Friday), 7:00 p.m. The group will meet to
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and book reviews relating to the ancient and modern Bad Subjects Near and Middle East. Contact: John Brady, 654-1317, [email protected]; Charlie Bertsch, (707)554-0652, [email protected]; Qui Parle [email protected] or http://eserver.org/bs Contact: Lilya Kaganovsky, 843-0542, Bad Subjects publishes short essays on contemporary culture [email protected]; Jill Stauffer, (415)431-2135, and politics from a leftist perspective. Although each [email protected]; or issue is organized around a theme, the editors welcome [email protected]; http:// submissions on any topic. socrates.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/ The editorial board is currently seeking new members to work Qui Parle publishes bi-annually articles in literature, as writers, editors, graphic artists or web designers. philosophy, visual arts, and history by an international Anyone interested in a political forum designed to array of faculty and graduate students. The editors are bridge the gap between the academy and the world currently seeking submissions from Berkeley graduate outside is invited to contact the board via email or students in the humanities. through their mailbox in 322 Wheeler. Direct all correspondence to Qui Parle, The Doreen B. In September, the editors will publish Karl Marx Y2K, their 45th Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall, issue, focusing on what Marxism has to say at the end of University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-2340. the twentieth century. It will be available on campus, at Bay Area bookstores, and on line at http://eserver.org/ repercussions bs. Throughout September, the board will also be Contact: Beth Levy, 652-8541, [email protected] accepting submissions for the October issue on or Robert Fallon, 236-6212, [email protected] alternative cultures. The journal connects music with non-musicological disciplines, drawing on a range of historiographical, critical and Chronicle of the University of California ethnomusicological approaches. The editors welcome Contact: Carroll Brentano, 643-9210, interdisciplinary submissions. [email protected] or Kaarin Michaelson, Address correspondence and submissions to repercussions, (650)854-2959, slick@socrates Dept. of Music; 107 Morrison Hall #1200; University of The Chronicle of the University of California is a semi-annual California; Berkeley, CA 94720-1200. scholarly journal dedicated to the history of the University. The editorial board welcomes inquiries about contributions by faculty, graduate students, staff, and alumni. The second issue, Ladies Blue and Gold: Women at Cal, is currently available. For information about subscriptions or to obtain single copies, contact Carroll Brentano.
Critical Sense Contact: Michael Signer, 644-1254, [email protected] or Masha Raskolnikov, 845-7781, [email protected] Critical Sense is a semi-annual interdisciplinary journal of political and cultural theory published by and for Berkeley humanities and social science graduate students. The editorial board welcomes submissions. Please send any correspondence to Critical Sense, Dept. of Political Science, 210 Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1950.
JAGNES (Journal of the Association of Graduates in Near Eastern Studies) Contact: Jennifer Ross, 601-6039, 642-3757, [email protected]; Adriana Valencia, 601-7441; or http:// ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/~hsp/JAGNES JAGNES is a biannual publication of graduate student articles
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2:30-4:00 Formations of the Mind: Kleinian and Relational Subjects as Philosophical Objects M A J O R L E C T U R E S Richard Wollheim, Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley Adrienne Harris, PhD, Faculty NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis
Department of Music 4:15-5:45 The Ernest Bloch Lectures Between Life and Death David Huron, Visiting Bloch Professor Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley Eric Santner, Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor in German The 1999 Ernest Bloch Lectures endeavor to introduce the field Studies, University of Chicago of cognitive musicology to a general audience. The lectures address questions concerning the origins of music, the Sunday, September 26 emotional experience of music, the relationship between music and culture, and questions of musical taste and value. Professor Huron argues that investigating the musical mind is 10:00-11:00 one of the central tasks of music scholarship. Psychoanalysis and Ethics Jonathan Lear First in the series of free lectures by Professor Huron: Music and Mind: Foundations of Cognitive Musicology 11:15-12:45 Monday, September 13, 8:00pm, Hertz Hall Queer Theory and Clinical Practice Biddy Martin, Porfessor of German Studies and Women’s Subsequent lectures 4:30pm, Elkus Room, 125 Morrison Hall: Studies, Cornell University Carol Maxwell Miller, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Friday, September 24 — Is Music An Evolutionary Adaptation? Psychology, Cornell University Friday, October 8 — Empiricism and Post-Modernism 2:00-3:30 Friday, October 22 — What is a Musical Feature? Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics Kaja Silverman, Chancellor’s Professor of Rhetoric and Film, Friday, October 29 — A Theory of Music and Affect UC Berkeley Friday, December 3 — A Cognitive Anthropology for Music Leo Bersani, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley 3:45-5:00 Round Table Discussion
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Department of Classics, the Bancroft Library, APIS (Advanced Traianos Gagos, University of Michigan, APIS, “Tebtunis and Papyrological Information System), the Dean of Arts and Karanis” Humanities, the Dean of the Graduate Division, and the Discussion: Susan Stephens, Stanford University; Michael Townsend Center for the Humanities. Haslam, UCLA
The Tebtunis Papyri: the First 100 Years 1:30pm A symposium planned in conjunction with the exhibit "Ancient Dorothy J. Thompson, Cambridge University (Girton College), Lives: The Tebtunis Papyri in Context," Bancroft Library Gallery. “The Greek Frontier: Ptolemaic Settlers in the South Fayum” Brian Muhs, Leiden University, “Demotic Texts from Tebtunis: Adaptation under Colonial Rule” Roger Bagnall, Columbia University, APIS, “Village and Urban Elites in Roman Tebtunis” Discussion: Joe Manning, Stanford University
4:00 pm Roundtable Discussion “The Tebtunis Papyri: the Next 100 Years” (moderator: Arthur Verhoogt)
For further information, contact Donald Mastronarde, 510-642- 4099, [email protected].
The Symposium recognizes the 100th anniversary of Phoebe Apperson Hearst's commission to Arthur Grenfell and Bernard Hunt to excavate at Tebtunis, Egypt, on behalf of the University of California.
Program
Friday, September 24
4:00pm, Morrison Room, Library. Arthur Verhoogt, Leiden University and the Bancroft Library (APIS), “From Mummy to Megabyte: the First Hundred Years of the Tebtunis Papyri”
5:00pm, Heller Reading Room, The Bancroft Library Opening of the exhibit Reception
Saturday, September 25 Stone Room, The Bancroft Library
9:00am James Keenan, Loyola U. of Chicago, “The Berkeley Collection, 1968-1979: Unfinished Business” Joan Knudsen, Hearst Museum of Anthropology, “Highlights of Collections from Tebtunis in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology” D. J. I. Begg, Trent University, Canada, “New Potential from Old Archives”
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Department of Music Berkeley Art Museum Wednesday Noon Concert Series Wednesdays • 12:15 • Hertz Hall • free Galleries II & III Deities, Courtiers, and Lovers: Indian Paintings from the Jean September 1 and Francis Marshall Collection Life is a Cabaret September 15 through Deborah Benedict mezzosoprano, Inara Morgenstern piano November 28, 1999 Bolcolm Over the Piano; Amor; The Song of Black Max; George; Waitin’ • Weill Nana’s Lied; Klops Lied; Berlin im Licht; Museum Terraces Complainte de la Seine; Je ne t’aime pas; Youkali Tobias Rehberger/Matrix 180 A travel guide to love and death. We’ll tour the U.S.A., Sunny-side Up Germany, and France, entering sordid dives and elegant August 29 through nightclubs in search of truth. November 14, 1999
September 8 Theater Gallery Windows of Sound From People to Paradox: Karen Baccaro trumpet, Margaret Kvamme organ The Photographs of Gerard Langlais Seven Chorales (No 7) Castello-Lopes Discussion with slides: The Stained Glass of Marc Chagall July 7 through September 26 Lisbonne, Portugal [1957] (Gérard Castello-Lopes) Eben Windows (performed with slides of Marc Chagall’s Jerusalem windows)
September 15 Robert Calonico clarinet, Andrea Liqouri piano Stravinsky Three Pieces • Milhaud Duo Concertant • Brahms Sonata No 1 in F minor
September 22 Cellist Tania Simoncelli and pianist Miles Graber perform Bloch Prayer; Jewish Song; Supplication; Méditation Hebraïque Violinist Janice Park and pianist Wendy Liao perform Glazunov Meditation, op 32; Vitali Chaconne in G minor
September 29 Shaw Pong Liu violin, Roger Moseley piano Bach Ciaconna from Partita No 2 in D minor • Brahms Sonata in A major
Wednesday, October 6 John David DeHaan tenor, J. David Brock piano Shaw Pong Liu (K. Karn)
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Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Deadline for Submissions: October 22, 1999 Pennsylvania State University Send proposals (no more than 3 pages) and vita to: Nigel Rothfels and Drew Isenberg, Conference Organizers Call for Papers: Cocteau's World: a Center for Twentieth Century Studies Symposium University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee P.O. Box 413 The Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies at Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA Pennsylvania State University invites submissions to a tel: 414-229-4141; fax: 414-229-5964; email: [email protected] symposium addressing the creative genius of Jean Cocteau in (email submissions cannot be accepted) all of its manifestations. Topics for 20 minute papers may relate to any one or more aspects of Cocteau’s career. Interdisciplinary topics are especially welcome. Proposals will be selected to provide a program balanced among Cocteau’s Center for Western European Studies various art forms. Submit a one-page abstract with current New Course: Scientific Knowledge, curriculum vita to: Professional Expertise, and Ordinary Jean Cocteau In/Competence — European Debates on Insititute for the Arts and Humaniitic Studies Welfare Reform & US Debates on Education Ihlseng cottage EDUC 290D, Sec. 1• 3 Units, cc# 22990 The Pennsylvania State University Tuesdays, 4 - 7:00pm, 2304 Tolman Hall University Park, PA 16802 Taught by Jean Lave & Ole Drier
Deadline for submission: October 15, 1999 Contemporary debates in Northern Europe on welfare reform and in the US on education reform are of interest of themselves Cocteau’s World, a three-day interdisciplinary symposium and in comparative political terms. In this seminar we will scheduled for March 16-18, 2000, will combine a scholary engage with these debates in order to pursue one of their most appreciation of Cocteau’s work with an ambitious schedule of remarkable features: they crucially depend on an unexamined exhibitions, film-screenings, a musical recital, and the world constellation of assumptions about relations among scientific premiere of an original musical drama, “Paul et Virginie,” knowledge, professional expertise and "ordinary" people. The written by Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet in 1920. European and US debates take up similar assumptions in strongly contrasting ways that merit close comparative For more information: http://www.jeancocteau.org analysis. But they also employ them in strikingly similar ways that take as given the natural, individual and apolitical character of learning, competence and knowledge, and assume Center for 20th Century Studies that science and professional expertise are the effective media University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for producing them. We will explore critical analyses of Call for Papers: Representing Animals at the expertise and ordinary practice in three fields, including End of the Century science, education and psychiatry. This should lead us to relocate the terms of public reform debates in the political April 13-15, 2000 dilemmas of contemporary neo-liberal states engaged in producing self-governing citizens. It will also lead us to locate This multidisciplinary conference will focus on the ways in a related reformulation of the debates in the everyday practices which animals have been imagined in cultures over the course in which ordinary citizens engage each other. of the last century. By tracing the development of the representation of animals in different contexts, in different practices, and by different disciplines, the conference will explore the connections between our understandings of NEH Outlook animals and the historical and cultural conditions in which A monthly e-mail newsletter of the National those understandings are formed. While the core disciplinary perspective of the conference will be historical and the Endowment for the Humanities geopolitical focus Euro-American, scholars from the full range New subscriptions: Send an e-mail to [email protected] and of humanities disciplines, with interests far beyond the type the word “subscribe” in the body of the message. To traditionally conceived “West,” will participate. unsubscribe, type “unsubscribe” in the body of the message. Past issues: Go to http://www.neh.gov/html/public_affairs/ outlook.
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