FACULTY WORD FELLOWS ach year, the Institute for the Humanities awards year-long residential fellowships to faculty members to pursue research on topics of urgent debate in their fields FROM THE of inquiry. Scholarly research is the core of academic work in the humanities, and helps to enrich teaching and service at our diverse and vibrant university. The Efellowships allow faculty the time to explore and create projects that have had an enduring effect across multiple fields. DIRECTOR Fellowship support has resulted in books, articles, and other writings over the past 35 A years. Some notable books include: Michelle Boyd, Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstruct- Lawrence H. Keeley, War Before Civilization: The am the new Director of the Institute for the Humanities at UIC, and I am pleased to join the ing Race in Bronzeville. Minneapolis: University Myth of the Peaceful Savage. Oxford University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Winner, 2009 Best Press, 1996. Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book faculty and staff in celebrating the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Institute. This brochure Book Award from American Political Science Prize for History. surveys some of the extraordinary research and programming that has taken place at Association—Race, Ethnicity, and Politics the Institute since 1983. Under four previous directors, we have supported cutting-edge Section. Iresearch and scholarship that has changed the course of humanistic inquiry in the US and Michael Lieb, Milton and the Culture of Violence. abroad. We have also continually featured innovative programming that has deepened our Robert Bruegmann Cornell University Press, 1994. knowledge of our disciplines, expanded our intellectual horizons, and ignited partnerships , Sprawl: A Compact History. University of Chicago Press, 2005. between UIC and other institutions. Virginia Wright Wexman, Creating the Cou- The following pages celebrate our distinguished past and anticipate a very bright future. The John D’Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times ple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance. humanities repeatedly endures attacks from proponents of utility, technology, and science; of Bayard Rustin. Simon and Schuster, 2010. Princeton University Press, 1993. funding for arts and humanities programs at the national level can be unstable at best. Support National Book Award Finalist. at our university for the Institute has been unflagging, however, and we are grateful for that. Linda Williams Equally important is the dedication of our students, faculty, and friends to the Institute’s Samuel Fleischacker, On Adam Smith’s , Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and primary mission: to provide support for the best work in the many fields of the humanities, and “Wealth of Nations”: A Philosophical Companion. the “Frenzy of the Visible”. University of Califor- to provide productive occasions for discussion, Princeton University Press, 2005. Winner of nia Press, 1991. debate, and investigation. Bringing together the 2009 Joseph B. Gittler Award, American faculty, students, and the community at large, Philosophical Association. the Institute explores the multiple dimensions of humanities today: we reflect on the past, we engage in the present, and we imagine our shared future.

The Institute benefits from the generous support of alumni and friends. That support helps us to offer free programming for the UIC community and the city of Chicago. To give to the Institute, please contact Wendy Irvine, Director of Advancement and Assistant Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at [email protected] or or the 2017-18 academic year, the following six faculty members received Institute at 312-413-3469. You may also visit our website support for their projects (see the online Institute calendar for the dates of public (see below). Flectures): Anne Eaton · Philosophy · “Rough Heroes: Marina Mogilner · History · “A Race for the Philosophical Reflections on Cinema, Moral- Future: The Scientific Visions of Modern Rus- Mark Canuel ity, and Art” sian Jewishness” Director, Institute for the Humanities Professor, Department of English Roderick A. Ferguson · African-American Heidi Schlipphacke · Germanic Studies and Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies · Classics · “The Aesthetics of Kinship: Love, GIVE “The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora” Literature, and the Dream of a German Na- TO THE tion” INSTITUTE Peter Hylton · Philosophy · “The Develop- Will Small · Philosophy · “Practical Abilities ment of the Analytic Tradition: The Influence in Human Agency” https://huminst.uic.edu of Logic” VISITING FELLOWS ach year, a renowned scholar is invited to the Institute to conduct a seminar, meet with graduate students, and present a free public lecture. Although Visiting Fellows have worked in a range of fields, they have something in common. Each has asserted an influence E far beyond his or her specific discipline. Each has challenged traditional paradigms and changed the way humanists think about history, theory, or methodology. The Visiting Fellows program began in 2001, and the distinguished group of past fellows includes: Natalie Zemon Davis (Toronto); Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA); Michael Fried (Johns Hopkins); Manthia Diawara (NYU); Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research), and Robin D.G. Kelley (UCLA).

2017-2018’s Visiting Fellow is T.J. Clark, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at UC Berkeley. For details, see the online calendar. T.J. Clark CONFERENCES ver many years, the Institute has sponsored stimulating conferences on topics THE STANLEY FISH of widespread debate for students, scholars, and the general public. Future conferences will address issues such as politics and aesthetics after postmodernism; immigration and nationhood; and democracy in times of crisis. All of these events LECTURES Oare free and open to the public. onoring Stanley Fish, Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Some recent conferences: Sciences at UIC, these lectures featured renowned public intellectuals. THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY GLOBALISM AND FILM HISTORY FOOD JUSTICE (2013) A (2000) A conference on the (2006) A conference on the working conference explor- H ing historical contexts of problems, limitations, and global reaches of film and the possibilities of the modern influence of this reach on film contemporary food policy April 2005 Fredric Jameson, Direc- April 2009 Judith Butler, Maxine El- presidency from Franklin production, consumption, and debates, with a keynote by tor of the Institute for Critical Theory, liot Professor in the Departments of Delano Roosevelt to William criticism. Keynotes were pre- Eric Schlosser (American William A. Lane Professor of Compara- Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, Jefferson Clinton, featuring sented by Jeffrey Berg (Chair- journalist and author). tive Literature and Romance Languag- University of California, Berkeley · Clarence Page, Dan Rosten- man and CEO, Creative Man- es, Duke University · “How to Fulfill a “Frames of War” kowski, Dinesh D’Souza, agement, LA) and Manthia Wish” and other speakers from Diawara (New York Universi- WATER AFTER BORDERS: academia, journalism, and ty). GLOBAL STAKES AND LOCAL government. October 2011 Slavoj Žižek, Institute POLITICS (2015) A confer- April 2007 Stephen Greenblatt, Uni- of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, ence on humanistic, social, versity Professor of the Humanities, SLAVERY AND ITS AFTERMATH Slovenia · “Freedom in the Clouds: economic, and political di- Harvard University · “Shakespeare and THE VULNERABLE CITIZEN What is Possible and What is Impossible IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD (2012) mensions of water distri- the Limits of Hatred” Today” (2001) A conference on per- An international symposium bution and management in ceptions of vulnerability on the slave trade and its af- the Great Lakes. Brought and surveillance in every- termath in the modern world, together the academic com- Judith Butler presenting “Frames of War” in 2009. © Roberta Dupuis-Devlin. day life in the United States, inspired by the UIC Library’s munity, local communities, featuring Richard Sennett unique collection of works and governmental agencies. (London School of Econom- on abolition. Concluded with ics), Randall Kennedy (Har- discussions of “Slavery and vard), and many others. Emancipation in the Making of the Modern World” and “Pub- lic Memory and the Heritage of Slavery.”

Top: Slavoj Žižek speaks with students after his Stanley Fish Lecture in 2011. © Roberta Dupuis-Devlin. umanities Frontiers Workshops involve faculty and students in focused discussions. Combining intensive workshops with public conferences or lectures, they promote particular scholarly interests by encouraging conversation and debate about re- search initiatives, theoretical problems, or critical methodologies. Workshops have WORKING Haddressed issues such as relationalism in philosophy, the future of democracy in former col- onies, and communication flows in urban spaces. GROUPS Two Frontiers Workshops are planned for the fall of 2017: Political Ecology as Practice: A Regional Approach to the Anthropocene (A workshop on the relationship between global theories of the Anthropocene and the experience of local ecologi- orking Groups convene faculty and students with overlapping scholarly interests; cal conflicts around the world.) Organized by Ömür Harmanşah, Art History and Molly Doane, they receive renewable support from the Institute. Although the format varies Anthropology. among them, Working Groups frequently involve reading groups, seminar discussions of new faculty work, or lectures by invited faculty members from Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Archive in Spanish Cinema (A work- otherW institutions. In the past, Working Groups have investigated the impact of class inequality shop exploring theoretical approaches to Spanish cinema in the context of the social and on the humanities; the overlapping concerns among the disciplines of law, politics, and the political changes in modern Spain.) Organized by Steven Marsh, Hispanic and Italian Studies. humanities; and the connection between documentary media and current scholarship.

Scholars and students at the Institute for the Humanities continue to explore stimulating new topics for discussion. These are the Working Groups for 2017-2018:

Central and East European Jewish Studies Digital Humanities Empire and Modernity Global Migration Health and Society Imagining Peace in the 21st Century Political Ecologies: Nature, Place, Heritage Postcolonial Studies Race and U.S. Empire Reimagining Femininity in Postwar Film and Multimedia Representation SEE NEXT: (Seminar: East European and Northern Eurasian Crosstalk) Urbanism Across Places, Spaces, Disciplines FRONTIERS

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