Annualr Eport 2002-2003

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AANNUAL RREPORT 2002-20032002-2003

10 Years of Excellence

1993 - 2003 HUMANITIES CENTER The Humanities Center YNATWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY ADVISORY BOARD 2002-2003 RVIN EID RESIDENT I D. R , P Charles F. Bantz Our Mission CHARLES F. B ANTZ, PROVOST & SENIOR VP FOR Provost Ex Officio ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Walter F. Edwards Director

BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2003 Jerrold Brandell Professor RICHARD BERNSTEIN School of Social Work EUGENE DRIKER Bradd Burningham DIANE L. DUNASKISS Librarian University Libraries ELIZABETH HARDY PAUL HILLEGONDS, CHAIR Margaret Franklin Assistant Professor PAUL E. MASSARON Art & Art History Bringing Humanists Together ANNETTA MILLER Heidi Gottfried for Collaborative Research JACQUELINE E. WASHINGTON, VICE CHAIR Associate Professor College of Urban, Labor, & Metropolitan Affairs

Mary Garrett Associate Professor Communication

Lisabeth Hock Assistant Professor German & Slavic Languages

Lauren Kata Graduate Student History

Kristine Miranne Research Associate Dean’s Office, College of Urban, Labor & Metropolitan Affairs HE UMANITIES ENTER T H C Steven Patterson PhD Candidate AIMS TO FOSTER INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INTRA-DISCIPLINARY STUDIES Philosophy IN THE HUMANITITES AND ARTS THROUGH THEMED AND UNTHEMED COMPETI- John Richardson TIONS, SEMINARS, FORUMS, AND RESEARCH DISCUSSIONS AMONG GROUPS OF Assistant Professor FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS AT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY AND Art & Art History THROUGH THE IDEAS OF INVITED VISITING PROFESSORS. THE CENTER SEEKS TO Michael Scrivener PROMOTE EXCELLENCE IN HUMANISTIC AND CREATIVE ENDEAVORS THROUGH Professor English RIGOROUS PEER REVIEW OF PROPOSALS SUBMITTED BY FACULTY AND STUDENTS FOR FUNDING THROUGH ITS VARIOUS PROGRAMS AND TO INVOLVE DEPART Lisa Vollendorf , - Assistant Professor MENTS, PROGRAMS, AND OTHER CENTERS AND INSTITUTES AT THE UNIVERSITY Romance Languages & Literature IN COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS TO ADVANCE HUMANISITIC AND ARTISTIC WORK . STEERING COMMITTEE THROUGH THESE ACTIVITIES, THE CENTER AIMS TO BECOME A SITE OF INNO- Dedria Bryfonski VATION AND EXCELLENCE IN THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS WITH A STRONG COM- Gale Publishing MITMENT TO INTERDISCIPLINARY OR TRANS-DISCIPLINARY STUDY IN THE ARTS Mildred Jeffrey AND HUMANITIES. Governor Emeritas, Wayne State University

Karin McClow-Orr Michigan Humanities Council

Guy Stern Distinguished Professor of German & Slavic Studies, Wayne State University

Maurice Wheeler Detroit Public Library 2 2002-2003 Annual Report Contents

DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE 4

SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS 5

RESIDENT SCHOLARS 6-8

INNOVATIVE PROJECTS 9

FALL SYMPOSIUM 2002 10-11

EDWARD M. WISE DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP 12-13

BROWN BAG COLLOQUIUM SERIES 14-20

GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS 21

2003 FELLOWS CONFERENCE 22-23

WORKING GROUPS IN THE HUMANITIES 24-26

OTHER SPONSORED AND SUPPORTED PROJECTS 27

FACULTY FELLOWS 2003-2004 28

A LOOK AHEAD (BROWN BAGS 2003-2004) 29

NEW PROGRAMS 30

10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 31 The Humanities Center 2002-2003 Annual Report produced by Leslie Ash 3 A Message From the Director increasing number of highly qualified applicants, as has our principal graduate student program, the 2002-2003 Overview Edward M. Wise Dissertation Fellowship. This year saw a large increase in graduate student travel awards compared to last year from a variety of colleges and departments. The Brown Bag lunch series has grown so popular that many weeks now have two presentations on the schedule, and we have already Left: Humanities signed up nearly 30 faculty to participate in next Center Director, Dr. year’s series. If the attendance at these weekly talks Walter F. Edwards by our humanities and arts faculty continues to rise, we will outgrow our conference room! April 30, 2003 Throughout the year, the Humanities Center I am amazed to think that it was a decade ago that the also supports various programs in conjunction with Humanities Center was founded. In these ten years other departments and units within the university. we have continued to develop new programs, build This year the Center was able to bring the classic interdisciplinary synergy, support our arts and hip-hop group The Last Poets to campus, an event humanities faculty, and broaden our horizons. In this which was very well-received by both the campus year, our tenth anniversary, I am thrilled to report our community and the public at large. We provided continued growth in terms of numbers of programs funding for international visiting scholar Wanda available and their quality. Chesney from Guyana and office space for Brazilian Our plans for the anniversary celebration are photographer Antonio Ferreira da Silva Neto. ambitious and exciting. We have engaged two This year, the Center was fortunate to have nationally-known personalities, Elaine Scarry and the guidance of an engaged and energetic Advisory Henry Louis Gates Jr., both of Harvard University, Board to help conceive and actualize our programs. to speak at a November 14 conference on “The I thank these ten faculty and graduate students for Humanities and Social Change.” In addition, the their work. We also had the thoughtful support of Center plans to compile a retrospective volume Provost Charles Bantz. We will miss his advice and comprised of essays based on faculty fellowship courteous responses to the Center’s needs. We themes over the last ten years. We will celebrate the especially thank him for guidance in the Center’s accomplishments of our past awardees with a reception successful application for re-chartering. We wish him on November 13, and we have also sponsored a and his wife Sandra Petronio much success in their student essay competition to commemorate the new positions at Purdue. passing of this landmark year. Please join us in celebration of ten years of But the 2002-2003 year has been amazing in promoting excellence in humanities research and other ways, too. Both the fall symposium on “The collaboration at Wayne State University. The staff Meaning of Citizenship” and the faculty fellows of the Humanities Center and I proudly present to conference on “The City and Civic Virtue” drew you this report of the Center’s 2002-2003 academic standing-room only audiences. These events attracted year activities. students, faculty, and the metropolitan community to Sincerely, hear speakers Patricia J. Williams, Thomas Sugrue and Camilo Vergara. Our four main funding programs, the Faculty Fellowship Competition, Innovative Projects Awards, Working Groups, and Resident Scholarships have received an ever- Walter F. Edwards, Director

4 The Humanities Center Summary of Programs 2002-2003

WORKING GROUPS IN THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS Three or more faculty members, or faculty and graduate students, from at least two different departments meet regularly throughout the academic year to pursue a shared scholarly or creative interest. The Center will support up to five new groups for the 2003-2004 academic year, providing the use of the Center’s conference room and up to $1,500 for speakers, supplies, or other organizational purposes. RESIDENT SCHOLARS PROGRAM This program is open to all WSU full-time faculty in the humanities, arts, and related disciplines. Resident scholars are provided with an office in the Humanities Center, a computer, and other office furnishings, and use of the Center’s fax and photocopying machines. Residents are also eligible to apply for up to $600 for travel to conferences to report on their approved projects, or for payment for research assistance. This program should be especially attractive to faculty who will be on sabbatical leave for all or part of the year. INNOVATIVE PROJECTS IN THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS The Center will award grants of up to $4,000 each to five individual faculty or groups of faculty who are working on projects that will indicate new directions in the humanities or arts. Collaborative projects will receive more favorable consideration than others. FACULTY GRANT MENTORSHIP The Humanities Center is pleased to announce its new Faculty Grant Mentorship program. This program aims to facilitate external grant writing by allowing faculty with experience obtaining grant funding in the humanities and arts to share advice with colleagues seeking external grants. The Center will appointed two mentors and provided each with an award of $2,000 for the academic year. VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM The Center, in collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts, College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, the Law School and the College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts invites applications from scholars or artists who are affiliated with other universities and who hold the Ph.D. or equivalent degree for their field. Visits may range in duration from one month to one semester. No stipend is attached, but a Visiting Scholar who stays one full semester is eligible for a grant of up to $6,200 for miscellaneous expenses related to his or her work. The visitor will be assigned an office in the Center and assistance with obtaining library privileges. In return, he or she will be expected to give a talk on his or her project. TRAVEL AWARD PROGRAM FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS The Center will provide up to $400 each to graduate students in the humanities, arts and related disciplines to support travel to present work at conferences and exhibitions. The funds will be awarded on a first come, first serve basis until the allotted budget of $12,000 per academic year is exhausted. HONORS PROGRAM-HUMANITIES CENTER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARDS In collaboration with the university’s Honors Program, the Center provides funds to support Honors theses and projects in the humanities and arts. The maximum award is $500. MUNUSCULUM SMALL GRANTS The Center now has set aside $5,000 for a “Small Grants” program. We will offer up to $300 to help faculty with the following academic expenses: data base searches to support research and creative projects; reproduction (photographs, microfilms, videos) of documents viewed at libraries or museums; costs of using copyrighted materials in publications; artwork or photographs used in publications; production of camera-ready manuscripts; direct subvention to publishers. The program will not fund travel expenses. Application must be made in writing to the Director justifying the need for this support. Requests will be funded on a first-come-first-serve basis until the budget is exhausted. BROWN BAG COLLOQUIUM SERIES The Brown Bag Colloquia are talks which provide opportunities for faculty, students and other members of the university community to learn about the research and creative efforts of faculty members. The talks are held at the Humanities Center on a weekly basis. To volunteer to present a Brown Bag in the 2003-2004 academic year, please contact the Center’s director. EDWARD M. WISE DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP The Edward M. Wise Dissertation Fellowship is awarded in the fall. The fellowship offers up to $12,000 in stipends to the recipient over an eight-month period. FACULTY FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION The Faculty Fellowships Competition, held in the spring, is based on an annual theme. The theme for 2004-2005 is The Body. Awarded fellowships average $10,000. 5 2002-2003 Annual Report Resident Scholars

The Center’s annual ANNE DUGGAN competition for Resident Scholar- FULL YEAR RESIDENT ships aims to create a community of During the Fall 2002 semester, Dr. humanities and arts faculty from dif- Duggan was granted a sabbatical to ferent disciplines working in the same complete a draft for a chapter in her physical space at roughly the same forthcoming book, Furies and Fairies: time. Residencies are awarded for one Women and Absolutism in French Op- semester or one year and include of- era and Fairy Tale. This chapter looks fice space, technical support and a at the influence of French opera as rep- 2002-2003 RESIDENT resented by Philippe Quinault and SCHOLARS small stipend for research expenses. Once per month the residents meet as Jean-Baptiste Lully on the fairy tale of a group to discuss their respective Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy. Dr. ALFRED COBBS projects and to receive feedback from Duggan was able to complete a draft German & Slavic Studies the group, allowing for the creation of of her manuscript in December 2002 The Literature of valuable research networks and the after her first semester of residency. Migrants in the Federal promotion of interdisciplinary collabo- Republic of Germany rations and joint grant applications. All full-time faculty are eligible for this ANNE DUGGAN program, but faculty on sabbatical Romance Languages & leave find it particularly appealing. Literatures Furies and Fairies: Women and Absolutism ALFRED COBBS in French Opera FULL YEAR RESIDENT and Fairy Tale Dr. Cobbs is currently working on the revision of a manuscript which ELIZABETH FAUE examines literary and filmic works History from a body of literature produced by Above: Anne Duggan used her time in residence to complete a book manuscript. Alternate Knowledges: and about foreign migrants, including Public Intellectuals, Turks and Arabs, who came to the Social Investigations, and Federal Republic of Germany in vast ELIZABETH FAUE Political Change during the numbers after 1960 to fill the employ- FALL RESIDENT Great Depression and ment void created by the erection of Dr. Faue’s study begins by reconstruct- World War II the Berlin Wall in 1961. Dr. Cobbs’s ing the history of progressive political com- research examines these texts against munities and left political organizations the political policies put in place by after the “Red Scare” of 1919-1921. It ex- the German government to deal with plores the creation of the Federated Press, such immigrants, including issues of which built on earlier networks of left and residency, work permits, political sta- radical journalists, and places it in the con- tus, and the education of the children text of post-World War I culture. Using of immigrants. This manuscript will resources such as the Archives of Labor and take a multicultural approach to these Urban Affairs in the Reuther Library, Dr. issues dealing with immigration. Dr. Faue added to over three years of research Cobbs plans to publish his research on the Federated Press and other left so- as a monograph. cial investigation of the 1920s and 1930s. 6 2002-2003 Annual Report Resident Scholars

MARC KRUMAN writing essential for conceptualizing the project FALL RESIDENT at hand. I also appreciated the interactive Marc Kruman spent the summer months critical modes of the resident scholar and the fall semester using the Center to plan roundtables, the brown-bag lecture for a brand new Wayne State research center, presentations and the informal discussions with the Center for Citizenship. He was able to do other residents and staff. The stipend was also research, acquire funding, meet with graduate most helpful in deciding what recording assistants, and develop a strategic plan for the equipment and research materials I could new center’s impact on the university and the purchase.” world. Essentially an international and inter- 2002-2003 RESIDENT disciplinary research center, the Center for Citi- KATE AESANI zenship will explore the multifaceted topic of P SCHOLARS (CONTINUED) citizenship through time and across space. By WINTER RESIDENT “My project, Perspectives on Language creating this center, Wayne State hopes to be- MARC KRUMAN Program Articulation, examines the important come the international leader on the subject. History role of articulation in foreign language pro- The Center for Citizenship is scheduled to open The Center for Citizenship grams from both practical and theoretical per- in 2004, with Dr. Kruman as its director. spectives. I have successfully implemented JANET LANGLOIS this project in large part because of my resi- English dency. I have used my office to write and re- ‘Other Worlds’’: An Ethno- vise an article related to practical issues of ar- graphic Study of Personal Right: Resident ticulation. This article, co-authored with Accounts of the Return of Scholar Janet Catherine M. Barrette (Spanish) is under re- Langlois discusses view by the ADFL Bulletin. I have also used the Dead and Other her research on the center as a weekly meeting place. Profes- Mystical Experiences in near-death and Health-Related Contexts other spiritual sor Barrette and I use the center’s office space experiences. and computer resources to communicate with potential contributors and conduct research for KATE PAESANI our co-edited volume on articulation to appear Romance Languages & in 2004.” Literatures Perspectives on Language ROSLYN ABT SCHINDLER Prgram Articulation WINTER RESIDENT During her semester of sabbatical ROSLYN ABT SCHINDLER JANET LANGLOIS leave, Dr. Abt Schindler undertook to write Interdisciplinary Studies FULL YEAR RESIDENT an historically contextualized memoir of (Re) Vision of a Life: “My project, ‘Other Worlds’: An Ethno- her mother’s Holocaust experiences and A Holocaust Story graphic Study of Personal Accounts of the Re- exile, in keeping with the emerging liter- turn of the Dead and Other Mystical Experi- ary tradition, “from mother to daughter” ences in Health-Related Contexts, was helped that has found a special place in Holocaust immeasurably by being a resident scholar. On testimony literature. Her mother, Goldie my sabbatical leave, fall term 2002, and con- Seidner Abt, now 90, provides an authen- tinuing into the winter term, 2003, I was able tic oral account of the Holocaust which to use the office space provided in the Humani- both honors the memory of the victims and ties Center exclusively for the project at hand. pays tribute to the survivors. In Goldie’s That intense focus allowed the critical read- words, “Some day you will tell my ing, interlibrary loan requesting, duplicating story....They didn’t have to die, but Hitler materials, outlining protocols, and beginning wanted them to die. I had a beautiful life, 7 2002-2003 Annual Report Resident Scholars

then it all changed when Hitler can to power. Right: In addition to He wanted me to die, too, but I lived. I still the planning for the live, at 90 years, and my family is here with new Center for the me every day.” Study of Citizenship, Resident Scholar Marc Kruman continued his research ROBERT SILVERMAN on the political philosophy of Alexis FALL RESIDENT “The research project I worked on while deTocqueville. 2002-2003 RESIDENT a resident scholar at the Humanities Center ex- amined citizen participation in Detroit’s citi- SCHOLARS (CONTINUED) zens’ district councils. This project entailed the collection of archival data and qualitative in- LISAVOLLENDORF ROBERT SILVERMAN terviewing. The resident scholars program in FALL RESIDENT (ALSO WINTER 2002) Sociology the Humanities Center provided me with time Citizen Participation “I found my time in the Humanities to focus on this topic and collect data vital to in Detroit, Michigan: Center extraordinarily peaceful, stimulating, my analysis. I also found that the program gave An Analysis of Citizens’ and productive. My year as a resident allowed District Councils me greater access to other scholars on campus me to have time away from my department and working on related areas of inquiry. The op- nearly complete my manuscript on Women and portunity to interact with these colleagues ANCA VLASOPOLOS Culture in Spain: 1580-1700. The roundtables English added to the development of my research and held by the resident scholars helped me think Pacific Harvests: fostered a stimulating environment for re- in interdisciplinary terms. This environment Whales and Albatrosses search.” in Nineteenth-Century mirrored that of the research libraries at which Markets I have spent time. To have such a luxury while not on sabbatical was truly wonderful. I thank NCA LASOPOLOS LISA VOLLENDORF A V the Humanities Center profusely—for funding Romance Languages & FULL YEAR RESIDENT and space, and for creating a comfortable and Literatures “The Humanities Center has provided me collegial environment.” Women’s Culture in with an office and a new computer, in addition Spain: 1580-1700 to creating the atmosphere of shared learning DAVID WEINBERG among resident scholars that induces better WINTER RESIDENT DAVID WEINBERG thinking and more concentrated writing. I made During the Winter of 2003, Dr. History progress toward my book. Out of my writing Weinberg began his monograph, The Jews The Jews of Europe since September, 2002, when I began my of Europe in the Postwar Era which reex- in the Postwar Era residence, I presented three papers at three amines the current historical assessments conferences, one regional, and two of postwar European Jewish communities. international, and have had another paper In addition to research for this book, Dr. accepted at an international conference. I will Weinberg worked on incorporating some also be publishing a chapter of my book in a of his findings into the courses on mod- web journal in April. Again, the quiet but not ern Jewish history that he teaches at lonely workspace, the general good will and Wayne State. Participation in the Resident expectation of success from the Director and Scholars program provided him not only the other residents creates the most conducive a physical space in which to write, but also work environment I have ever experienced in the opportunity to share his ideas and per- my twenty-eight years at Wayne State spectives with other research faculty on University.” the Wayne campus. 8 2002-2003 Annual Report Innovative Projects

poems exploring gender and its For the fourth year multifaceted realities, embodied in a series in a row, the Center received many of female portraits. Its objective is to excellent applications for its Innova- account for modern femininity by affirming tive Projects awards. This program its contradictions and resilience. Sandra Dupret and Mame Jackson continues to encourage faculty mem- are working on a community-based project bers from a variety of departments with Brett Cook-Dizney, a renowned New to collaborate on projects in the hu- York City artist whose urban, community- 2002-2003 AWARDEES manities and the arts. For 2002-2003 based art will be paired with the art of local JEAN ANDRUSKI the Center increased the grant Tyree Guyton, the creator of the famous Speech & Language Pathology amount to $4000 and awarded five Heidelberg Project. Lisa Vollendorf received an award to and grants, up from two last year. complete her research for a manuscript EUGENIA CASIELLES The purpose of Innovative entitled Women’s Culture in the Hispanic Romance Languages Projects awards is to promote and World: 1500-1700. Her current focus is & Literatures encourage new ideas and projects in “Gender and Justice: Women’s Defenses in the humanities and the arts. The Inquisition Records.” TAMARA BRAY Anthropology Center funds proposals from faculty Ronald Aronson and filmmaker Judy Montell will be producing a documentary that will chart new research or artistic film about the life and times of Saul CHRIS TYSH territory. These new projects may be Wellman tentatively titled, “One Man in English proposed by individual faculty or by His Times.” Detroit Public Television has collaborative teams, with preference also agreed to support this project. With SANDRA DUPRET given to projects involving Humanities Center funding the duo will Art & Art History and collaborative efforts by two or more complete the film’s rough cut. Barrett Watten and Carla MAME JACKSON faculty. Harryman will continue their ongoing Art & Art History Jean Andruski and Eugenia work to bring to Wayne State significant Casielles plan a longitudinal study of practitioners of new poetics, new media, LISA VOLLENDORF bilingual language development among and performance genres through their Romance Languages & Spanish and English speakers. A central project, “Practices of Poetics: Public Literatures question is to what extent the bilingual’s Strategies and Literary Art.” two languages are differentiated and to RON ARONSON Daphne Ntiri and Feleta Wilson Interdisciplinary Studies what degree bilingual acquisition parallels received funding for their project, “Using monolingual acquisition. the Arts to Promote Health with Low BARRETT WATTEN Tamara Bray’s project, “The Art of Literacy Clients,” which uses theatre arts and Empire in the Andes: The Function and as a means to communicate health-care CARLA HARRYMAN English Imagery of the Imperial Inca Pottery” will information to low literacy clients by using be part of a manuscript she plans to finish high school student performers. DAPHNE NTIRI in summer 2003. Interdisciplinary Studies Chris Tysh also plans to complete a and manuscript entitled Cleavage, a book of FELETA WILSON Nursing 9 2002 Fall Symposium The Meaning of Citizenship

A TOPIC OF TIME AND PLACE: nomic market pressures towards globaliza- THE MEANING OF CITIZENSHIP The Humanities Center’s annual fall tion, burgeoning nationalism, growing po- symposium for the 2002-2003 academic litical unrest, dictatorships, growing citi- year focused on a topic that has recently zen movements and tribalism. Defining affected the lives of many in Wayne State’s citizenship will require widespread civic local area. With terrorism, war, patriotism, involvement that taps the common sense, ethnicity and religion at the forefront of the energy, insight, and effort that comes from country’s thought, “The Meaning of Citi- citizens with different talents and points of FALL SYMPOSIUM zenship” could not have been a more timely view working together, often across lines PRESENTERS and relevant topic for discussion. of sharp cultural, partisan, racial, and eco- nomic differences. Toward this aim, the IRVIN D. REID Humanities Center’s symposium looked at President, Wayne State citizenship from many positions and University through the eyes of several disciplines. Welcome and Opening The conference was very well-at- remarks tended, with over 150 people showing up for the keynote address by Columbia MARC KRUMAN University’s Patricia J. Williams. The Hu- Moderator manities Center was fortunate to have WSU Professor and Chair, President Irvin Reid agree to open the sym- History Department; posium, and Marc Kruman and Brad Chair, Planning Roth taking turns in moderating the con- Committee for the ference throughout the day. Establishment of the Patricia Williams has authored nu- Center for the Study merous articles for publications including of Citizenship USA Today, Harvard Law Review, Tikkun, the New York Times Book Review, The Na- Above: Patricia Williams, Columbia PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS tion, Ms. magazine, and the Village Voice. James L. Dohr University’s James L. Dohr Professor of Law and author of the column, “Confessions of a Professor of Law , Mad Law Professor” gave the keynote Columbia University address at the 2002 Fall Symposium. Keynote address: The Meaning of Citizen- “Citizenship” can often be hard to de- ship fine. Is it specific to one nation or com- mon to all? In modern terms, citizenship KEVIN DEEGAN KRAUSE must refer to more than residing within one Assistant Professor, particular nation’s borders. Citizenship is Political Science a duty, and a privilege. Addressing the Who Owns the State? tough challenges we face today will require Majorities, Minorities people to reconceive of themselves as citi- & Group Rights in zens. Central Europe These days, we negotiate the meaning of citizenship against a complex backdrop Above: Marc Kruman and Joan Mahoney, Dean of the Law School, discuss the citizenship with Patricia of post-colonialism, post-communism, eco- Williams at the symposium reception. 10 2002 Fall Symposium The Meaning of Citizenship

Her book, The Alchemy of Race and further back in history to investigate con- Rights (Harvard University Press, 1991), ceptions of justice and statehood in “Po- was named one of the twenty-five best licing Citizenship: The Case of Early Mod- books of 1991 by the Voice Literary ern Spain”. Supplement and one of the “feminist clas- Kenneth Walters looked even further sics of the last twenty years” that “literally back to the classical age in his presenta- changed women’s lives” by Ms. magazine’s tion, “Sexual Betrayal and Political Con- Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Her other frontation in Colonial Contexts: How Some books include Seeing a Colour-Blind Fu- Native Women in Ancient Societies Could FALL SYMPOSIUM ture: the Paradox of Race (1997), and The Acquire a New Civic Identity” to illumi- PRESENTERS Rooster’s Egg (Harvard University Press, nate the different definitions of citizenship and non-citizenship with regard to women LISA VOLLENDORF in ancient societies. Assistant Professor, Finally, Marvin Zalman, Chair of the Romance Languages & department of Criminal Justice, asked the Literatures audience to explore criminality and citizen- Policing Citizenship: ship in America with “Convicted Crimi- The Case of Early nals: Citizens or Outlaws?” Modern Spain The Humanities Center’s fall sympo- sium on “The Meaning of Citizenship” was KENNETH WALTERS co-sponsored with the College of Urban Professor & Chair, Labor & Metropolitan Affairs and the Classics, Greek & Latin Planning Committee for the Study of Sexual Betrayal and Citizenship. Political Confrontation Above: Humanities Center Director Walter F. in Colonial Contexts: Edwards greets a full room at the symposium. How Some Native Women in Ancient Societies Could Ac- 1995). Williams is an expert on the defini- quire a New Civic tions of citizenship within the current le- Identity gal and political realm of the United States. Williams is particularly interested in the MARVIN ZALMAN way in which race fits with modern Ameri- Professor & Chair, can delineations of citizen and non-citizen. Criminal Justice Wayne State’s own Kevin Deegan Convicted Criminals: Krause, in his talk, “Who Owns the State? Citizens or Outlaws? Majorities, Minorities, and Group Rights in Central Europe” took a look at citizen- BRAD ROTH ship and ownership of the state in central Roundtable Discussion Europe, the scene of civil wars throughout Above: President Irvin Reid welcomed the audience to the symposium. Moderator the last decade. This presentation brought Associate Professor, questions of citizenship in the modern Political Science world to the forefront. Lisa Vollendorf of the department of Romance Languages took the audience 11 2001 -2002 Annual Report Edward M. Wise Dissertation Fellowship

$15,000 FELLOWSHIP AWARDS MADE went to Kyoung Lee from English for her The second Edward M. Wise dissertation, Domesticating the Early Dissertation Fellowship was awarded to Modern Witch: From Shakespeare’s Joan Erik Mortenson, Ph.D. Candidate, of Arc to Dekker’s Mother Sawyer and to English for his dissertation, Heaven in a Parvinder Mehta of the English Cornice: The Practices and Politics of the department for (Re)Negotiating Identities: Beat Return to the ‘Moment’. Borders and Boundaries in Immigrant/ Mortenson’s advisor Barrett Watten Transnational Discourse. 2002 AWARDEES had this to say about the dissertation: EDWARD M. WISE FELLOW “Erik’s work will help redefine the ERIK MORTENSON importance of this generation of writers in PhD Candidate, English relation to American politics and culture Heaven in a Cornice: in the Cold War Era, and for critical social The Practices and theory more generally. He is addressing a Politics of the Beat field of literary and cultural study in which Return to the ‘Moment’ there is now a great deal of interest.” Award Amount: $12,000 Mortenson holds a M.A. in English and has also won a Thomas A. Rumble ADDITIONAL AWARDEES Fellowship, a summer fellowship to the ROBERT SLOAN LEE School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell PhD Candidate, University, and a Tompkins Award for an Philosophy essay on Jack Kerouac. Miracles and Naturalism: The Center also made three $1,000 A Philosophical Analysis Award Amount: $1000 awards. One was to Robert Sloan Lee, Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy, for his dissertation, Miracles and Naturalism: A KYOUNG LEE PhD Candidate, English Philosophical Analysis. The other awards Domesticating the Early Modern Witch: From Shakespeare’s Joan of Below:Erik Mortenson, 2002-2003 Edward M Wise Arc to Dekker’s Mother Dissertation Fellow. Sawyer Above: Edward M. Wise Award Amount: $1000 ABOUT THE AWARD The Edward M. Wise Dissertation PARVINDER MEHTA Fellowship for Doctoral Students in the PhD Candidate, English Humanities and Arts is named for the late (Re)Negotiating Edward M. Wise, Wayne State University Identities: Borders and Boundaries in Professor of Law and Humanities Center Immigrant/Transnational Fellow in 1997-1998 and 2000-2001 and Discourse a Humanities Center Resident Scholar in Award Amount: $1000 1999-2000. Dr. Wise passed away in Oc- tober 2000.

12 2003 Fellows Conference Edward M. Wise Dissertation Awards Luncheon

EDWARD M. WISE AWARDS LUNCHEON secure their establishment. With a hypothesis For the 2002-2003 year the Humani- that a witch-hunting mentality reveals the ties Center changed the format of its Ed- disciplinary nature of society, I develop my research of witch-making based on the social ward M. Wise Dissertation conference. An expectations of women before, after, and during awards luncheon was held on March 21 to marriage. I read the emergence of the idealized recognize the outstanding achievements of bourgeois family and its disciplinary machinery awardees and to give them the opportunity through the process in which the oppositional agency of the witches deteriorates into a social nuisance.” EDWARD M. WISE Robert Sloan Lee & DISSERTATION Miracles and Naturalism: A Philosophical Analysis Left: Parvinder FELLOWS, 1993-2003 Mehta speaks “This dissertation is an evaluation of the claim The Humanities Center about her that it is possible that there is a set of has awarded over doctoral thesis circumstances under which it is rational or $130,000 to excellent in English at the reasonable for an epistemic agent to believe doctoral students at awards lun- that a miracle has occurred. In the process of Wayne State over the cheon. making this determination, this work will last decade. Past attempt to analyze the conceptual relationships awardees include that obtain between naturalism, the concept of a miracle, and classical Western theism.” 2001-2002 to discuss their dissertation research. Julie Towell Awardees, their family members and 2000-2001 friends, their advisors and selected faculty Right: Kyoung Joseph Helminski members, and university officials were Lee describes Jane Yamzaki witches and present to hear the summaries presented by witchcraft in this year’s fellow and three awardees. Ab- 1999-2000 historical Li-Mei Chang stracts from these dissertations follow. literature. Susan Honeyman Erik Mortenson Heaven in a Cornice: The Practices and Politics 1998-1999 of the Beat Return to the ‘Moment’ Natalie Atkin “This dissertation draws on the Glen Bessemer phenomenological tradition of philosophy as well as discussions of the Modern and 1997-1998 Postmodern to explore the role of the ‘moment’ Jose Ibanez in Beat Generation writings. Through an Parvinder Mehta Robert Mellin expansion of the Beat canon, it examines how (Re)Negotiating Identities: Borders and such writings rework notions of space and time Boundaries in Immigrant/Transnational Discourse 1996-1997 in an attempt to countermand the repressive “This dissertation seeks to resituate American William Elster social and political forces present during the literature and culture within a multiculturalist, Jodi Wyett postwar period.” postcolonial, and hemispheric framework by Kyoung Lee exploring the complex historical and 1995-1996 Domesticating the Early Modern Witch: from universalist phenomena of reading the Other Stephen Germic Shakespeare’s Joan of Arc to Dekker’s Mother primarily in terms of repression and Suchitra Mathur Sawyer subjugation. I am interested in spatial “The gender-specific reading of early modern identities: identities defined in terms of shared 1994-1995 witchcraft discourse obscures the bigger picture spaces as dealing with history, memory, Deborah Najor of political, religious, and institutional forces violence, home and other conceptual ideas Marie-Claire Simonetti that necessitated an oppositional agency to linked within a immigrant discourse.” 13 2002-2003 Events Brown Bag Colloquium Series

Continued growth marked Impending Teacher Shortages and its impact on Humanities Education the weekly Brown Bag talks pre- Over two million new teachers will be needed in sented by WSU arts and humani- the United States in the next ten years. Policies that are developed and decisions that are made ties faculty as well as visiting about how to handle this shortage will have scholars from near and far. This implications for all areas of education including year saw a dramatic increase both the humanities. Additionally, the continued push for accountability in K-12 education as measured in the frequency of presentations by standardized tests may also bring about and the sizes of the audiences. significant changes in Humanities Education. BROWN BAG LECTURERS Abstracts of presentations follow. These topics are delineated and discussed SEPTEMBER 17 particularly in regards to their Michigan context. Donald Spinelli, Associate Dean, College Who Is This Beaumarchais and Why do We African American Women: Health, Education of Liberal Arts Still Owe Him Money? & Work Who is This The French author Pierre-Augustin Caron de An examination of changes in the quality of life Beaumarchais and Why Beaumarchais is known primarily for his two plays, over the past few decades indicates that Do We Still Owe Him The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. improvements have not touched all segments of Money? Readers and theater-goers are perhaps less aware society equally. In this assessment the interaction that a good deal of the playwright’s time and fortune of gender and ethnic issues is found to influence SEPTEMBER 24 was spent on sending supplies to the American the likelihood of being left behind. The status of Peter Williams, Associate colonies during their revolution against British rule. African American women is used as an example as Professor, Art & Art This talk will explain Beaumarchais’s role in the the changes in areas of health, education, and work History endeavor, as well as to examine why he was never are reviewed. A model for future research is Crossing Eight Mile: The reimbursed during his lifetime for his efforts, and presented and the need for using an intersectional Art of Not Knowing Your why his family received only a quarter of what their approach is discussed. Place ancestor actually spent to aid the Americans. A very complicated scenario is unraveled to explain why Returning Native American Human Remains: OCTOBER 1 not one monument exists in this country to honor Science, Ethics and Cultural Responsibilities Paula Wood, Dean, the one person who was perhaps most responsible The passage of repatriation legislation by the Education and Interim for the French involvement in the American federal government in 1989 and 1990 mandated Dean, CLA Revolution. the return of Native American human remains and Impending Teacher culturally sensitive objects from museums and other Shortages and its impact Crossing Eight Mile: The Art of not Knowing institutions to more than 1000 tribes and Native on Humanities Education Your Place communities in the contiguous United States, “Crossing Eight Mile”, reports on the work of Alaska and Hawaii. This talk examined a few OCTOBER 8 Professor Peter Williams, who has distinguished concrete examples of repatriations that occurred at Pamela Reid, Professor himself through painting and dealing with issues the National Museum of Natural History, of Psychology and of race and representation. “Crossing Eight Mile: Smithsonian Institution over the last decade and Director of Women’s The Art of Not Knowing Your Place” refers to the the issues they have posed to scientists, Native Studies Program, visual cultural symbols that both define and confuse people and others. These examples provide a University of Michigan, contemporary ideas about black people. By mining broader context for the implementation of African American historic and contemporary popular culture, repatriation nationally and the growing dialog on Women: Health, Williams seeks to undermine the traditional science, ethics and cultural responsibilities in the Education & Work pictorial narrative in regard to the Western- study of the past. European canon (with the pictorial tradition). In his work, Williams uses popular racial stereotypes Community-Based Organizations: Where such as “mammy”, “sambo” and popular cultural Social Capital and Citizen Participation Fit in references. He says that “we are being challenged This brown bag focuses on two of the questions at the beginning of this millennium to recognize that emerge from research on community-based the true complexity of blackness.” He also states organizations. One centers on the role of social “we have a great and pressing opportunity to capital in local community development efforts. integrate these divided parts into a whole.” 14 The other explores the scope of citizen participation 2002-2003 Events Brown Bag Colloquium Series

poetic versions of selected psalms revise the role of the prophet in a feminist direction. Dr. Scrivener explored the extent to which her modest persona was culturally dictated. The mode of publication she chose was by subscription, which was framed as a charity case: the large, poor Lyon family (15 children) needed money, especially after father Solomon, a well known Hebrew teacher at Oxford and Cambridge, had been stricken with blindness. Dr. Scrivener also speculated on why Emma Lyon, BROWN BAG LECTURERS whose first book is so accomplished, published no more poetry. (CONTINUED) OCTOBER 15 Political and Social Satires on German Thomas Killion, Chair, Above: Sandra Yee, Dean of University Libraries, Migrants 1961-1973: The Writings of Sinasi Anthropology discussed the electronic resources available to Dikmen and Rafik Schami Returning Native researchers in the humanities and arts. The literature of migrants in the Federal Republic American Human of Germany is a body of work produced by and Remains: Science, Ethics in these organizations. Selected results from Robert about foreigner migrants who came to Germany in and Cultural Silverman’s research on community-based vast numbers between 1961 and 1973 to fill the Responsibilities organizations in Detroit were presented and the employment void created by the erection of the application of these findings to future research was Berlin Wall. Focusing on the satires of the Turkish- OCTOBER 22 discussed. German writer Sinasi Dikmen and the Syrian- Robert Silverman, German writer Rafik Schami, written during the Assistant Professor, Social Work, Care, Justice, and Helping: 1980s, Dr. Cobbs discussed the satires as Sociology Research on Middle School Youths’ Thinking documents critical of German political and social Community-Based about Dating Violence policies toward foreign migrants in their midst. Organizations: Where How do youth think about dating violence Employing humor and borrowing from the art of Social Capital and Citizen dilemmas? At the beginning of a dating violence Oriental storytelling, these writers foreground such Participation Fit in and sexual assault prevention program for Detroit, critical issues as identity, citizenship, and education low-income African American seventh graders, the as they impact the lives of foreign migrants in the OCTOBER 29 researchers asked for youths’ thoughts about dating Federal Republic of Germany. Arlene Weisz and dilemmas. Drs. Weisz and Black presented their Beverly Black, Associate analysis of the youths’ responses focusing on Camus vs Sartre: 50 Years Later Professors, Social Work Kohlberg’s “justice” or Gilligan’s “care” It is now fifty years since the twentieth century’s Social Work, Care, perspective in their moral reasoning. They also most famous literary quarrel. Dr. Aronson presented Justice, and Helping: presented analyses of their responses about whether a view of this personal and yet public, authentic Research on Middle and where youth would seek help if they were and yet saturated with bad faith, the letters by Albert School Youths’ Thinking involved in a violent dating relationship and about Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre signaled two about Dating Violence whether they believe friends should intervene in simultaneous turning points: of a personal each other’s violent relationships. relationship and an historical era. In a NOVEMBER 5 philosophically intense and personally brutal Michael Scrivener, Emma Lyon: Anglo-Jewish Poet argument, the two main voices of postwar French Professor, English So self-effacing and deferential a persona did intellectual life publicly destroyed almost ten years Emma Lyon: Anglo- Emma Lyon present before the public that few have of friendship. At first reluctantly and hesitantly, and Jewish Poet ever noticed she wrote some excellent poetry; then with a rush that seemed uncontrollable, Sartre moreover, her single volume of poetry— and Camus also shattered their political milieu and Miscellaneous Poems (1812)—develops, with any lingering traces of what was once their common subtlety and sometimes by means of indirection, project of creating an independent Left. After their themes that can hardly be contained within the split the “either/or” would prevail on the Left. category of harmless “poetess” of “pretty little Supporting revolutionary movements and poems,” as the reviews described her. Lyon’s governments meant agreeing to ride roughshod neglected poems explore Romantic themes of over freedom; defending freedom meant opposing inspiration and affirm multicultural toleration; her the only significant project challenging capitalism. 15 2002-2003 Events Brown Bag Colloquium Series

The Partial Truth of a Conspiracy Theory: A the City. In this, Todd Duncan considers Union Confronts the Coming of Capitalism in “oldtimers” a vital link, particularly as oral history Poland for students. In part he aimed to address the interest Dr. Gurr writes, “For more than ten years now, I that older residents of Detroit have in sharing their have been thinking about one particular Polish experience and sense of the City with students, who factory. It is in my work on and in the Ursus Works are generally younger, and in greater part, what that I encountered and came to study something students might gain from this. Two projects Duncan which is not a conspiracy theory. Ursus, a huge is currently pursuing, including the course “Stories state tractor plant in Warsaw, was long privileged of Oldtimers,” will provide two or three instances by and a site of opposition to communism. In the of oldtimers and younger timers speaking for BROWN BAG LECTURERS course of the reforms, over the last twelve years, themselves (on video). Introducing and presenting (CONTINUED) Ursus Solidarity has become ever more radical and these provided points of departure for conversation moved ever further to the right. It is more closely and reflection. NOVEMBER 12 Alfred Cobbs, Associate identified with political parties on the nationalist right than any other workplace has been with any Professor, German Below: many of this year’s brown bag talks were political organization. But Ursus Solidarity is Political and Social Satires attended by large audiences, including Guerin on German Migrants everywhere labeled paranoid and irrational, and its Montilus’s talk on African religions. 1961-1973: The Writings accurate appraisal of the workings of capital a of Sinasi Dikmen and Rafik conspiracy theory; it is the use of the label Schami “conspiracy theory” as a strategy of delegitimation that I seek to understand in this paper.”

NOVEMBER 19 Ron Aronson, Professor, The Boundaries of Privacy Interdisciplinary Studies Privacy issues are pervasive in our society today. Camus vs Sartre: Headlines call our attention to them routinely. 50 Years Later People consider ways to protect and guard private information they define as belonging to them on a daily basis but they also need to disclose to others. NOVEMBER 26 Lisa Gurr, Assistant Dr. Petronio presented a practical theory called Professor, Anthropology “Communication Privacy Management (CPM)” The Partial Truth of a that offers a heuristic to understand decisions Conspiracy Theory: people make to tell or keep information concealed. The State of Special and Early Childhood A Union Confronts the The presentation illustrated why privacy and Special Needs Education in Nigeria Coming of Capitalism disclosure form a dialectical tension and what Nigeria is a vast country located in the western parts in Poland system we use to make choices so that we can manage our privacy. Because we often experience of the African continent with an area of 923,768 such things as family privacy dilemmas, people Km and a population of 166 million people. This DECEMBER 3 figure represents well over a quarter of the total Sandra Petronio, asking us to keep their information private (the population of Africa. For this, the country is Professor, Communication “don’t, tell anybody” conundrum), face privacy justifiably referred to as the giant of Africa, both The Boundaries of Privacy predicaments when we use the Internet, or when we interact with physicians, our family members, in terms of population distribution and size. The colleagues, and friends. We also tackle privacy National Planning Commission projected the DECEMBER 10 number of children in Nigeria who are below the Todd Duncan, Lecturer, issues as confidants and sometimes people tell us age of five years to be between 20-30 million. This English more information than we want to know. The CPM means that Nigeria has 2.2-3.0 million children with Who Cares? Old Timers theory provides a road map to navigate privacy terrain in our everyday lives and this lecture varying types and degrees of special needs. In this introduces the map. presentation Dr. Dantata discussed efforts made to address the education needs of disadvantaged children in Nigeria. In addition, issues involving Who Cares? Old Timers education and other provisions required for the With Detroit as an evocative context, the survival of these children will be discussed. Factors title of this talk, “Who Cares? Oldtimers,” suggests militating against the success of these approaches a fixed answer to a generic question, but is meant will also be featured in this Brown Bag Talk. (Co- 16 to open entry points for how one might think about sponsored by World Bridge.) 2002-2003 Events Brown Bag Colloquium Series

Emotional Abuse in the Workplace it embodies, has made a world in which nationalism By far the majority of hostility that workers and internationalism, form and perspective, and experience is nonphysical, often passive, verbal, freedom and terror are intertwined. and indirect. The main actors of these behaviors are organizational insiders rather than strangers or Legal Interpretation and Political Legitimacy customers. Up until recently, little was known about Perhaps unlike the act of interpreting most other the nature, prevalence, antecedents and effects of types of text, the interpretation of legal texts such nonphysical aggression. In this presentation, presents problems of political legitimacy. Statutes Dr. Keashly reviewed the current research on and constitutions contain general norms that must workplace aggression broadly and on emotionally be applied in particular cases. An approach to legal abusive behaviors, in particular to address these interpretation known as originalism holds, BROWN BAG LECTURERS questions. She then speculated as to how such generally speaking, that an interpreting court owes (CONTINUED) damaging behaviors manage to persist in a great deal of deference to decisions made by the organizations despite organizational and societal legislative author of a statutory or constitutional DECEMBER 12 rhetoric that they are unacceptable. This drew on text. In Dr. Peters’ talk, he took first an interpretive Gaji Fatima Dantata, the sociological notion of organizational violations. and then a critical approach to legal originalism. Visiting Senior Fulbright Interpretively, he explained what he believes are Scholar, Special Ed Psychotherapy: Images in Celluloid the arguments of political theory that underlie The State of Special and Although Hollywood has not always been kind or originalism. Critically, he contended that those Early Childhood Special accurate in its depiction of the psychotherapeutic arguments are fatally flawed. Originalism, Peters Needs Education in process, the popular cinema has, in exceptional suggests, is a politically illegitimate method of Nigeria circumstances, given us a relatively undistorted interpreting statutes and constitutions. reflection of the relationship between therapists and DECEMBER 17 their young clients. Dr. Brandell considered three Other Worlds: Return of the Dead Loraleigh Keashly, movies that explore important qualities and A small, but growing, literature addresses the Associate Professor, somewhat different conceptions of relationship: I intersection of narrated near-death experiences, CULMA Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Ordinary death-bed reports and accounts of those who are Emotional Abuse in the People, and The Sixth Sense. bereaved and grieving with narratives of the return Workplace of the dead. Whether these accounts are socially or Children of Daedalus culturally constructed only, whether they relate to JANUARY 14 Aviation is one of the small number of physiological processes of stress, dying and Jerry Brandell, transportation and communication technologies bereavement, or whether they point to other Professor, Social Work that have created the twentieth century as a ontological realities, spiritual or otherwise, is part Relationship of distinctive episode in human history. Like other of an on-going debate, both academic and social. Child and Adolescent technologies aviation is inscribed with the cultural Dr. Langlois presented samples of these narratives Psychotherapy: formations of the time and place in which it was in critical contexts which touch on redefinitions of Images in Celluloid developed. For aviation, these cultural formations the rational. Langlois found herself agreeing with include nationalism, modernism, and what the with the anthropologist who wrote in a recent JANUARY 17 Italian Futurists called with erotic suggestiveness review: “Anthropology presents its fieldworkers Allen Batteau, Associate “the joy of mechanical force.” Dr. Batteau with a paradox. The methodological approach of Professor, Anthropology examined how aviation, with the cultural emphases participant-observation says that anthropologists Children of Daedalus should try to experience the world the way their subjects do. Yet the discipline, a Western science, JANUARY 21 tends not to take seriously accounts of mystical, C. J. Peters, Assistant transcendent experiences.” The paradox deepens Professor, Law when one works in the surroundings of one’s own Legal Interpretation and culture. Political Legitimacy

Living Stories and Telling Stories: The Arts JANUARY 28 and Sciences of Autobiography Janet Langlois, Associate How have the two worlds of science and the Professor, English humanities managed their encounters with the Other Worlds: Above: Alma Young, Dean of CULMA, gave a culture of autobiography? It seems that activity in Return of the Dead presentation calling for a new approach to theories these areas is at an all time high. Similar concepts of race and racism in urban life. 17 2002-2003 Events Brown Bag Colloquium Series

such as self narratives, life themes, and life stories bring to attention some important aspects of this have been proposed but at different levels of question. The conceptual framework will be analysis and with different criteria for acceptance. structural and these religions will be discussed as Dr. Fitzgerald hopes in this conversation to cultural systems. Some important case studies will demonstrate how the differing concerns of many illustrate the theoretical approach. disciplines can reach a lively common ground. Poetry and Prose for Celebration and Archetypal Criticism and Theatrical Memory Narrative For this presentation, Professor Reed read from his BROWN BAG LECTURERS Northrop Frye asserts that no single work can book entitled Dear Ruth, which is a celebration and embody the total dream of man, yet his seminal memorial of his wife, Ruth Yzenbaard Reed, who (CONTINUED) work, Anatomy of Criticism, certainly provides a died in August of 1999. The book consists mainly JANUARY 30 series of lenses with which to better comprehend of short prose vignettes, interspersed with short Joseph Fitzgerald, the interrelationships of separate works that are poems. Professor Reed also read a few selections Professor, Psychology parts of that total dream. In this talk Dr. Anderson from other authors who wrote about their deceased Living Stories and Telling explored visually and schematically only a few of Stories: The Arts and spouses. Professors Sandra VanBurkleo and John Sciences of Autobiography the multiple dynamics of Frye’s “Anatomy,” not Reed have in mind a kind of loosely organized, only of literary criticism, but of a much more dialectical exchange in which the reading of poetic FEBRUARY 4 inclusive poesis. Comparisons to a few tenets of (and, in his case, prosaic) expressions of loss, Blair Anderson, Chair, Aristotle’s in the Poetics are unavoidable, given memory, and the experience of grief are Theatre Anderson’s theatrical perspective on Frye’s interspersed with spontaneous discussion of the Archetypal Criticism and “Anatomy.” At the core of the presentation is the relationship between such texts and emotional Theatrical Narrative following mandala: The Mythos of Spring: recovery. Comedy; The Mythos of Autumn: Tragedy; The FEBRUARY 11 Guerin Montilus, Mythos of Summer: Romance; The Mythos of Agencies of the Letter: The British Museum, Professor, Anthropology Winter: Irony and Satire. The Foreign Office and Mayan Ruins African Religions and Between 1841 and 1855 the British Museum, Syncretism in Cuba, Haiti assisted by the Foreign and Colonial Offices, and Brazil Left: engaged in a secret plot to remove and carry away Loraleigh a selection of Mayan ruins from the jungles of FEBRUARY 14 John Reed, Distinguished Keashly Central America. Dr. Aguirre examined the plot’s Professor, English, and discusses motivations and mechanisms, paying particular Sandra VanBurkleo, “Emotional attention to the use of diplomatic letters, or Abuse in the Associate Professor, dispatches, which crossed and recrossed the Workplace” History, Law Atlantic imparting information, bearing Poetry and Prose for Instructions and shaping events at a distance. Celebration and Memory Tupac Shakur: From Poetry to Rap FEBRUARY 18 The Rose That Grew From Concrete (1999) is an Robert Aguirre, African Religions and Syncretism in Cuba, Assistant Professor, Haiti and Brazil anthology of Tupac Shakur’s verse written when English The African religions in the Americas still constitute he was a teenager. This anthology collects Tupac’s Agencies of the Letter: The a hot topic in the humanities and social sciences. romantic versifying, along with flashes of the British Museum, The These religions have continuously magnetized social and political expressions of his activist Foreign Office and Mayan scholars and suddenly slipped away from their heritage. Tupac is clearly in them reaching for Ruins analytical grasp to remain as mysterious as before standard poetic forms and content, perhaps in the remote past. The stumbling block has been reflecting his training at the Baltimore School for FEBRUARY 20 Walter F. Edwards, their hybrid nature. These Latin African religions the Arts. Between 1991 and his murder on Director, Humanities spring out of the encounter of myths and rituals September 13, 1996, 2Pac’s albums sold millions Center; Professor, from indigenous Africa, Christian Western Europe of copies. Thus, from Tupac Shakur, the aspiring English and indigenous America. It is easy to call them poet, he became a famous rapper at a time when Tupac Shakur: From syncretistic and consign them to oblivion. However, American inner-city neighborhoods were teeming Poetry to Rap they always revive and call for explanation. Dr. with young African-American and white youths Montilus’ presentation took advantage of some competing strenuously for success in the lucrative 18 extensive ethnographical fieldwork research to new genre of rap music. Dr. Edwards presented an 2002-2003 Events Brown Bag Colloquium Series

Anikulapo-Kuti, with respect to their musical careers and the direction their careers took on both socially and politically. Adejumobi used brief musical excerpts to reveal how music serves as an important vehicle for inciting social and political action, effectively allowing for a combination of social commentary and political satire. External cultural forces modified the musical careers and political influences of both men: British for J.J. and mainly African-American for his grandson. Their Above: Pamela Reid, Director of the Women’s lives, both highly shaped by colonialism’s impact Studies Program at the University of Michigan, in Nigeria, provide an opportunity for BROWN BAG LECTURERS spoke on “African American Women: Health, intergenerational analysis of acculturation and (CONTINUED) Education, and Work” resistance to colonialism’s socio-political and FEBRUARY 25 explanation of the linguistic and sociolinguistic economic influence within the context of West Louis Jones, Reuther bases of this artistic success. He showed that as a African elite and popular culture. Archives & Darryl rapper 2Pac was masterful in capturing in his lyrics Shreve, Producer/ the texture, rhythms, syntax, vocabulary and topics Vodou: Interactive Video Opera Director I, University of African American vernacular talk; and that he Voudou is a linear and nonlinear interactive Television rooted his lyrics in the oral traditions of the African- computer work that overcomes the usual line art The Detroit African American community by employing such speech limitations of visual art and music. The concept of American History Project styles as boasting, woofing, signifying, and using the computer as live or real-time collaborator running it down. is central to Dr. Martin’s recent performances, FEBRUARY 27 visual art and installations. The work incorporates Saheed A. Adejumobi, The Detroit African American History Project a visual - audio installation using live and Assistant Professor, The Detroit African American History Project improvised qualities found in jazz. The body is used Africana Studies (DAAHP) is a new interactive Website that offers as an instrument to produce music and animated The ‘Culture Industry’ and students, teachers and others the opportunity to visual art, controlled by a drum Kat, a Mattel the Black Atlantic: Thodor learn about the history of African Americans in PowerGlove, brainwave data, and camera virtual Adorno’s Enlightenment as metropolitan Detroit. Given that the study of reality. Each controller triggers spontaneously- Mass Deception in a African-American history in Detroit involves many generated music and randomly produces non-linear Yoruba/West African other disciplines, this brown bag forum will allow computer generated images of voudou culture. Context us to provide some insight into the many uses of the site for professors, students undertaking the How is Metaphysics Possible? study of African-American life and culture in Metaphysics is a response to what is fundamentally MARCH 4 Robert Martin metropolitan Detroit, and others as well. Implicit an epistemological crisis. The world we experience Chair and in the subject of this brown bag forum, moreover, appears to us to be infinitely varied: no two things Associate Professor, is the idea that serious research is no longer ever look exactly the same, and even the same thing Art & Art History relegated to books, articles, and archival records will look different from one occasion or vantage Vodou: Interactive located in the libraries, archives and other research point to another. The apparent infinite diversity we facilities. Through a demonstration, Shreve and experience thus threatens to make the world Video Opera Jones wished to motivate brown bag attendees to unintelligible and inexplicable. So, if the world is consider using the Website to satisfy their varied intelligible then the world is not the way it appears. MARCH 18 interests. www.daahp.wayne.edu Thus, it seems that the truths about how the world Larry Lombard, appears and the truths about how the world is Professor, Philosophy The ‘Culture Industry’ and the Black Atlantic: contradict each other. Is there a way to explain the Thodor Adorno’s Enlightenment as Mass metaphysical enterprise that shows that it is not How is Metaphysics Deception in a Yoruba/West African Context purely speculative, and which allows that there are Possible? This study highlights the role and impact of popular, truths about how the world really is which we can, expressive culture in both colonial and modern with some serious effort, discover? Yes there is, Africa. Dr. Adejumobi explored the similarities and and it is the conception that has motivated differences shared by the late ordained Anglican metaphysicians since at least the days of Plato and Christian Missionary Society Deacon J.J. Ransome- Aristotle. In this talk, Dr. Lombard explained what Kuti, and his grandson, Pan-Africanist, Fela metaphysics is and how it is possible. 19 2002-2003 Events Brown Bag Colloquium Series

The Humanities and Electronic Publishing Ruined Cottages: The Legacy of the Picturesque? The availability of electronic journals has seen a For a landscape to be picturesque, its topography large increase in just the last five years, led by the must resemble a picture—a landscape painting or rapid availability of those in science, technology drawing. By the 1790s in England a very specific and medicine (STM). Though slower to arrive, we kind of landscape was coming to be seen as are now seeing an increase in the percentage of capturing the essence of Picturesque beauty. No social science and humanities titles in electronic longer were cultivated, agriculturally improved form. It is important to take a look at the increase landscapes Picturesquely beautiful, according to in the creation of digital archives and repositories William Gilpin. Rather, “The regularity of corn- which are being developed and nurtured. Access fields disgusts.” The new Picturesque aesthetics BROWN BAG LECTURERS to digital information through online journals, valued irregularity and decrepitude. Aestheticizing (CONTINUED) books and digital repositories can enhance the the visible signs of economic deprivation, the amount and type of resources available for faculty Picturesque transformed the marginal farmlands of MARCH 20 and students. Dean Yee presented a brief overview mountain and moorland into tourist destinations. Sandra Yee, Dean of of electronic information resources development Dr. Landry used slides to assess the mixed legacy Libraries in the humanities and how these resources are being of the Picturesque movement to determine whether The Humanities and used. William Wordsworth’s poem “The Ruined Cottage” Electronic Publishing (1814) ought to be seen as a manifesto for the movement, and if, like H.J. Massingham, we ought MARCH 25 The ‘Nome’ Coins of Roman Alexandria to denounce it as a “giant worm, trailing its slime Jennifer Sheridan-Moss, So-called “nome coins” were issued in various over the countries of England.” Associate Professor, denominations sporadically between 91/92 CE and Classics, Greek, & Latin 144/45 CE. The traditional designation of the coins The ‘Nome’ Coins of leads to and encourages a misunderstanding of their Left: Robert Roman Alexandria nature and significance by implying that these coins Aguirre of the are not part of the mainstream Alexandrian coinage. English department APRIL 1 Dr. Sheridan-Moss argued that the coins were gave a brown Anne Duggan, Assistant neither minted in the nomes nor were they intended bag on Professor, Romance Lan- to circulate only in the nome which they represent. communications guages and Literatures All were minted at Alexandria and circulated in the British Absolution and Republi- throughout the province of Egypt. In this illustrated Empire canism in Madeleine de lecture I will present the results of my decade-long regarding Scudery’s Clelie, a Roman research on nome coins. She discussed the coin Mayan ruins. History types, what they may represent, and how the types were chosen. She debunked many myths scholars APRIL 8 have accepted about the coins, and discussed the Tocqueville’s Democracy Donna Landry, Profes- message they deliver from the central government. “I confess that in America I saw more than America; sor, English I sought the image of democracy itself, with its Ruined Cottages: The Writing the Nation: Absolution and inclinations, its character, its prejudices and its Legacy of the Pictur- Republicanism in Madeleine de Scudéry’s passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or esque? Clelia, a Roman History hope from its progress.” –Alexis de Tocqueville. In writing her historical novel Clelia, A Roman The famous political philosopher’s views were APRIL 15 History, Madeleine de Scudéry borrows techniques discussed in Dr. Kruman’s presentation. Marc Kruman, Chair, from early modern historiography to allegorically History write the history (or history to be) of the French Racialized Identities in the City Tocqueville’s Democracy nation and the heroes and heroines in the narrative In this talk Dean Young discussed how a racialized of “universal history,” her ultimate goals go beyond social order is produced and maintained – through APRIL 22 feminist revisionism. Taking into account both the ideology and structures of domination. The Alma Young, Dean, structure of the novel and the concepts she deploys, resulting racialized hierarchies are used to justify CULMA Dr. Duggan made clear that through Clelia, Scudéry the marginalization and exclusion of certain groups Racialized Identities in was putting forth a republican model of state and and the hegemony of others. This racialized social the City individual that would free women from certain order has a lasting influence on our everyday lived oppressive social constraints, and more generally experiences, public policies and civil interactions reconcile the private interests of the individual with within civil society. 20 the public interests of the state. 2002-2003 Special Funding Graduate Student Travel

TWENTY-TWO SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS American Studies, and the International Asso- GARNER $9400 IN TRAVEL AWARDS ciation of Asian Studies. Kim Conely, also of the Communication Each year graduate department, presented at the Society for Cin- students are invited to apply for ema and Media Studies conference. funding to attend conferences at Anton Puvirajah of the Education de- which they will present their pa- partment presented his work at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching. pers. This year saw eleven more David Cichocki, Communication, De- awards granted than in 2001- partment was awarded funds to attend the Cen- GRADUATE STUDENT 2002. Individual awards ranged tral States Communication Association Con- TRAVEL AWARDEES up to $400. vention. Victoria Abboud, a student in the En- ALDONA POBUTSKY glish department, presented a paper to the Aldona Pobutsky, of the Romance Lan- JENNY TATSAK-DANYLIW guages department, received funding to present Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences & Let- CHRISTINE MILLER her paper at the Conference of the Asociacion ters. de Escritoras de Espana y las Americas. Sandra Flinoil of the English department LINA BEYDOUN Jenny Tatsak-Danyliw of the Commu- was awarded funds to attend Southwest/Texas WILLIE HARRELL JR. Chapters of Popular American Culture Asso- nication department was awarded funds to at- LINDA MERCER tend the National Communication Association’s ciations conference. conference. Laura Andea of the Communication de- JULIANNE NEWMARK Christine Miller, Interdisciplinary, trav- partment presented her paper at the Western CAROLINE JUMEL States Communication Association National eled with Humanities Center support in order ANGELA JAY to present at the American Anthropological As- Convention. Ms. Andea was also granted fund- KIM CONELY sociation Conference. ing to present at the Conference on Communi- Lina Beydoun of Sociology attended a cation, Medicine and Ethics in Cardiff, Wales. ANTON PUVIRAJAH conference in Melbourne, Australia on “Cul- Mary Clark of Political Science received DAVID CICHOCKI funding to present at the National Conference tural Citizenship: Challenges of Globalization.” VICTORIA ABBOUD Willie Harrell, Jr. of the English depart- of Black Political Scientists. ment attended two conferences: the Society of Erik Marshall, English, traveled to the SANDRA FLINOIL Research on African Cultures, and the Pacific Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. LAURA ANDEA Helen Ditouras of the English depart- Ancient and Modern Languages Association. MARY CLARK Linda Mercer, English, was granted an ment was awarded funds to attend the Popular ERIK MARSHALL award to present her paper at the Conference Culture Association Conference. on College Composition and Communication. Kim Davis of the English department HELEN DITOURAS Julianne Newmark, also a graduate stu- won a travel grant to present at the conference KIM DAVIS of the Association for the Teaching of Techni- dent in the English department, was able to JULIE BORKIN present at the Northeast Modern Languages cal Writing. Association conference. Julie Borkin, a student in the Commu- SHERRY JODWAY Caroline Jumel of Romance Languages nication department, presented a paper to the TAMARA EMERSON traveled to the XVth International George Sand William Kern Communication Conference. Conference. Sherry Jodway of the English depart- Angela Jay of the Department of Com- ment was awarded funds to attend CUNY’s munication received an award to present at the English Graduate Center Students Association Joint National Conferences of the National conference. Association of African American Studies, the Tamara Emerson presented in Boston at National Association of Hispanic and Latino the conference of the Association for the Study Studies, the National Association of Native of Literature and Environment. 21 2003 Fellows Conference The City and Civic Virtue

The annual Faculty Fellows development, poverty and public policy, and colonial American history. Sugrue is conference took place on March 21, the author of The Origins of Urban Crisis 2003. This year’s topic, “The City (1996), co-editor of W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and Civic Virtue” was timely and and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and relevant, as attested by the large its Legacy (1998), and is currently finishing audience and media coverage of the a new book, Sweet Land of Liberty: The event. The Humanities Center was Unfinished Struggle for Racial Equality in the North. Sugrue spoke on the topic of FACULTY FELLOWS able to invite two well-known CONFERENCE PRESENTERS scholars, Thomas Sugrue and Camilo (CONTINUED) Vergara, for separate keynote Right: John addresses, to join this year’s Faculty DORA APEL Corvino Moderator, Morning Fellows on the program. discusses the Thomas Sugrue is Professor of philosophi- cal implica- CAMILO VERGARA History and Sociology at the University of tions of Keynote Speaker Pennsylvania. A native of Detroit, Sugrue homosexual- Building the Lesser City: was educated at Columbia, Cambridge and ity and The New Emerging Ur- Harvard. He recently served as an expert morality in for the University of Michigan in the two educational banism in Detroit and settings. Other Cities federal lawsuits concerning affirmative action in its undergraduate and law school MARGARET FRANKLIN admissions, now before the U.S. Supreme Art & Art History Court. Sugrue specializes in the study of “Metropolis Unbound: Redefining Classical Heroines and “urban” topics including modern American Community, Reconstructing the City.” Civic Virtue in Renais- culture and politics, affirmative action, Camilo Vergara is a freelance sance Society twentieth-century conservatism and photographer and sociologist who has liberalism, race, urban economic devoted his career to documenting the transformation of the American inner city, LAURA REESE Below: Thomas Sugrue (left) and Camilo Geography & Urban Vergara (right) discuss the day’s conference particularly the physical devolution of the Planning with Jeffrey Abt. built environment in some of the nation’s Reconstituting Virtue most notorious ghettos. His use of time- lapse photography shows once-sturdy ALMA YOUNG, DEAN structures as ghostly ruins and then as Moderator, Afternoon empty lots or flimsy new structures. Vergara caused controversy when he THOMAS SUGRUE proposed that the 12 square blocks Keynote Speaker surrounding Grand Circus Park in Metropolis Unbound: downtown Detroit be turned into an urban Redefining Community, ruins theme park. His books include The Reconstructing the City New American Ghetto, Twin Towers Remembered, and American Ruins. Vergara’s talk discussed “Building the

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Left: Thomas Sugrue’s keynote speech in the afternoon drew an audience of well over 150 people.

FACULTY FELLOWS CONFERENCE PRESENTERS

JEFFREY ABT Art & Art History Artists, Museums, and the Civic Audience for Art Lesser City: The New Emerging Urbanism After a short break for lunch, during in Detroit and Other Cities.” which time the Edward M. Wise Awards DORA APEL In addition to the keynote speakers, Luncheon was held (see page 13) and Art & Art History Faculty Fellows presented their work on the Sugrue’s keynote address, the conference Lynching Imagery topic “The City and Civic Virtue”, continued with Jeffrey Abt discussing in America beginning with Margaret Franklin, whose “Artists, Museums, and the Civic Audience work on “Classical Heroines and Civic for Art.” JOHN CORVINO Virtue in Renaissance Society” focused on Dora Apel followed with a powerful Philosophy the story of Clelie and her portrayal in presentation of “Lynching Imagery in Homosexuality, Educa- Renaissance painting. America.” tion and Public Values Next was Laura Reese from John Corvino, Philosophy, discussed Geography and Urban Planning, who “Homosexuality, Education and Public BARRETT WATTEN discussed “Reconstituting Virtue.” Values.” English Barrett Watten then explored “Civic Civic Ideals and Ideals and City Life in the New American City Life in the Poetry.” New American Poetry Gwen Gorzelsky’s talk, “Echoes Half Left: Dora Heard: Community Activists, Collective GWEN GORZELSKY Apel’s presen- English tation on Movements” and Richard Marback’s Echoes Half Heard: Lynching “Narratives of Place and the Making of Imagery in Civic Virtue in Capetown” concluded the Community Activists, Collective Movements America day’s presentations. included some A short question-and-answer session graphic RICHARD MARBACK was held by the day’s presenters in panel images such as English this one. format. Afterward the Faculty Fellows, Narratives of Place and audience, and guest speakers were invited the Making of Civic to a reception which provided opportunity Virtue in Capetown for further discussion of “The City and Civic Virtue.” 23 2002-2003 Sponsored Programs Working Groups

The purpose of the colleagues in other departments are thinking of diaspora in very different ways Humanities Center’s Working from my own, both in the context of Groups program is to bring together memoir writing and my present work on faculty and advanced graduate castaways who are brought to foreign students to explore shared scholarly shores. Jorge Chilea’s work was or creative interest. Groups meet especially enlightening in view of my present interests.” WORKING GROUPS regularly, often in the Humanities IN THE HUMANITIES Center, to share work in progress, to SPEAKING IN SENTENCES OR PHRASES - Detroit Voices: Race read and discuss texts, and otherwise THAT IS THE QUESTION and Labor Activists, 1930 to Present address issues that arise in their own This group met biweekly, beginning by Kathryne Lindberg work or in the increasingly reading key sources in the area of elliptical Todd Duncan speech. We have planned a day-long mini- Beth Bates multidisciplinary humanistic and Quill Pettway conference for Saturday, September 27, in Douglas Fraser creative fields. All Working Groups the Humanities Center. We have invited General Baker are interdisciplinary, with members two active researchers in this area with Grace Lee Boggs Mildred Jeffrey from at least two departments. opposite views: Rob Stainton of Carleton Maryann Mahaffey University, Ontario, Canada, and Jason Lasker Smith DETROIT VOICES: RACE AND LABOR Merchant of University of Chicago. All of Mike Smith ACTIVISTS, 1930 TO PRESENT our budgeted funds will go toward this Diasporic Communities in The work of this group focused on activ- conference: approximately $700 for North America: ists who remain engaged in the fight for honoraria and $800 for travel. We plan to Expressions of social justice but whose stories have not advertise the conference to linguistics Displacement and Evolving Identities been adequately understood or recorded. faculty and students here at Wayne State May Seikaly By conducting a series of interviews, with and at Oakland University, University of Fran Shor accompanying analyses and historical con- Michigan, and Michigan State University. Frances Trix Anca Vlasapolos text, the group hopes to make available for Our goal for this year and next is to prepare Guerin Montilus a wide audience material crucial to an un- a co-authored article from our working derstanding of the cultural and political sessions: at the moment, we plan to submit Speaking in Sentences or riches that have made Detroit a site of an article to linguistics journals, either Phrases - That is the Question struggle and special commitment for Afri- Syntax or NLLT (Natural Languages and Ellen Barton can Americans and leftist labor formations. Linguistic Theory). We are actively Eugenia Casielles-Suarez working on readings and collecting/ Kate Paesani Ljiljana Progovac DIASPORIC COMMUNITIES IN NORTH constructing data for analysis. Nicola Work AMERICA: EXPRESSIONS OF DISPLACE- Robert Stainton MENT AND EVOLVING IDENTITIES THE FOLD - THEORY AND PRACTICE Peter Ludlow This group met three times and discussed The members of this Working Group have The Fold - Theory & the members’ individual work in diaspora devoted themselves to the scholarly project Practice studies and shared reprints of articles. They of creating an ongoing dialogue about the Charles Stivale Ronald Day next planned to bring in essays on theories complex intersections and overlaps Michael Giordana, of diaspora and finally began plans to bring inherent to “the fold.” This focus arises Erik Mortenson in a speaker. Group member Anca from two major works of the 1980s by the John Richardson Tom Conley Vlasapolos said, “I think the group has been French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze, 24 helpful to me in letting me know how my Foucault (1986) and The Fold: Leibniz and 2002-2002 Annual Report Working Groups

the Baroque (1988), and sections of these two THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS works serve as the main topics of study and Our big events for the year center around discussion for the Working Group. Gilles the visits of two philosophers of mathematics. Deleuze’s writings, alone and in collaboration The first visitor was Jody Azzouni of with the French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, Tufts University. He is the author of two span four decades and at least twice as many books on the philosophy of mathematics, as domains of reflection. In regards to Deleuze’s well as numerous articles. He is perhaps the study The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, most important of the younger philosophers Deleuze discusses how this concept creates of mathematics working today. He visited for WORKING GROUPS spatio-temporal conjunctions at once with four days, which enabled members of the IN THE HUMANITIES material textures, physical movements, working group considerable access to him Transatlantic Exchanges: outside of the formal event held in the Interchange of Cultures corporeal functions, creating in this way a between Great Britain/ conceptual resonance in artistic and scientific Humanities Center. His talk was attended by Europe and the Southern as well as literary and philosophical fields. It faculty and students from several universities, Western Hemisphere and was an enormous success. Some members Robert Aguirre is no exaggeration to say, therefore, that John Reed Deleuze is ideal for work in the context of of the group who could not attend because of Renata Wasserman the Humanities Center because, however their schedules were nevertheless excited that Cannon Schmitt this event was held, and several expressed Tamara Bray challenging, Deleuze’s work is one of the very Thomas Killion few in the twentieth century to achieve a truly renewed enthusiasm for the activities of the Jorgelina Corbatta conjoined and interdisciplinary potential for group as a result. We had a second visitor, Octavio Bueno The Philosophy of critical reflection. The group’s work therefore Mathematics has consisted of ongoing discussions each (University of South Carolina), for several Susan Vineberg week since November and also hosting the days in April. Both visits will prompt Robert Bruner continuing discussion between the members Robert Titiev visit to Wayne State of Prof. Tom Conley Sean Stidd, (Harvard University), translator of Deleuze’s of the philosophy of mathematics working Madeline Muntersbjorn The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, in group. Jill Dieterle February, 2003. In these efforts, the Matthew McKeon DIGITAL CULTURE Jamie Tappenden Humanities Center’s support has been crucial. Michael McFerren This ongoing Working Group, formed in Mark Huston 2000, continues to focus on the relation of Matthew Zuckero TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES: INTERCHANGED new digital information and communication CULTURES BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN/EUROPE technologies to the construction for social Digital Culture AND THE SOUTHERN WESTERN HEMISPHERE space and artistic practice. Among the theme Richard Grusin Ronald Day This group studies the cross-influences explored are the historical and epistemologi- Charles Stivale between Europe, the Caribbean, and Central cal relations of new digital information and Barrett Watten and South America, more specifically communication technologies to those of the Sandra Yee between Great Britain and the area of the past; the aesthetic properties of new digital Eric Marshall Western Hemisphere from Mexico South, information and communication technologies including the Caribbean basin. The group and their relation to the social and cultural focuses on the nature of the cultures of the productions of meaning; the political and eco- peoples in the southern Western hemisphere nomic dimensions of the production, con- and the way in which these cultures were sumption, deployment, and appropriation of represented, particularly in Europe and Great new digital information and communication Britain. technologies. 25 2002-2003 Sponsored Programs Working Groups

SCIENCE & SOCIETY END-OF-LIFE PROJECT Since the early 1970s, the interdisci- The WSU Interdisciplinary End-of- plinary field of “science and technology Life Project is now moving into its third studies” (STS) has emerged as a scholarly year. Begun as a “working group” in the response to the social impact of science on Fall of 2000, the Project now includes fac- society. A number of prominent institu- ulty and practitioners from many disci- tions, such as Virginia Tech and Cornell, plines. have founded major programs in this field. During each year of its existence, the WORKING GROUPS Michigan universities have begun to fol- Project has begun and successfully com- IN THE HUMANITIES low suit. In 2001, the University of Michi- pleted a major activity. In its first year, the Science & Society gan established a degree-granting program Project developed a new interdisciplinary Marsha Richmond, offering a minor in STS and hosting regu- course on End-of-Life issues. This course William Lynch lar colloquia that bring in prominent schol- Richard Grusin was offered successfully during 2001 and David Barondess ars in this area. The University of Michi- 2002. In its second year, the Projects uti- Edward Golenberg gan-Dearborn has also recently established lized funds from a Humanities Center grant Maria Ferreira a program in Science and Technology Stud- to focus on the issue of spirituality at the Jazlin Ebenezer James Woodyard ies of the Automobile, the first STS pro- end-of-life. Project members read and dis- Dana Seitler gram to give special attention to the im- cussed articles related to spirituality and Cannon Schmitt pact of a single technology on American end-of-life care in preparation for the visit Eric Hotchkin Ash culture. Michigan State University has an Charles Hyde of an outside speaker, Dr. Christine David Bowen STS Field of Concentration program within Pulchaski, Director of the Institute of Spiri- Susan Vineberg the Lyman Briggs School. tuality and End-of-Life at George Wash- Alvin Saperstein With the participation of WSU in the ington University. Julie Klein Life Sciences Initiative along with the The group has also developed collabo- End-of-Life Project University of Michigan and Michigan State rative articles, symposia, and research. One Donald Gelfand University, one component of which article is now under review by the Ameri- Juliann Binenda Sherilyn Briller involves funding for social and ethical can Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care Lynda Baker issues of biomedical science, it is a and two other articles are in preparation for Elizabeth Chapleski particularly propitious time for the submission. As its major activity for the George Cooney Ardith Doorenbos University to establish ties between faculty 2002-2003 year, the Project began devel- Sonia Duffy members in the humanities interested in opment of a book tentatively titled, Inter- John Finn topics connected with science, engineering, disciplinary Perspectives on End-of-Life. Allen Goodman William Lang or medicine. The Working Group in Kathryn Mert Science and Society brings together an Left: Fritz Muller, Jeanne Parzuchowski interdisciplinary group of faculty and biologist and Mark Speece advanced graduate students who are explorer, was the Richard Raspa topic of a discussion Stephanie Schim interested in social, cultural, historical, by David A West. Celia Thurston philosophical, and literary aspects of West, author of a Robert Zalenski science, engineering, and medicine. book on Muller, In April 2003 this group hosted David was invited to A. West, author of Fritz Muller: A Wayne State by the working group on Naturalist in Brazil (2003) to speak on Science & Society. “Fritz Muller: Pioneering Evolutionary Biologist” at a brown bag talk in the 26 Humanities Center. 2001-2002 Annual Report Other Supported Activities

Chesney plans to examine the effects of internet culture on interpersonal relationships of couples, and will also look at gender dif- ferences in online communication. Chesney will present her work at a public lecture, to be announced at a later date. Above: The Humanities Center welcomed the famed musicians of The Last Poets to the student center in The Humanities Center teamed with February of 2002. Worldbridge and the department of Art & Art History to bring Antonio Neto to cam- During the year, pus in February. Neto, a native of Brazil, pre- sented “Bahia: The Warm Heart of African- CO-SPONSORED the Humanities Center often has the oppor- EVENTS AND tunity to support special events or to assist Left: Interna- ACTIVITIES other departments with bringing in visit- tional Visitng 2002-2003 ing professors or renowned speakers. Dur- Professor ing the 2002-2003 year the Humanities Wanda Center participated in several such events. Chesney will VISITING SCHOLAR hold residence Wanda Chesney in the Hu- University of THE LAST POETS COME TO WAYNE manities Guyana The Humanities Center celebrated Center in the Guyana Black History month by hosting the famous summer of May-July 2003 musical group The Last Poets at the Student 2003. Center building. This free event drew a large crowd consisting of university and commu- VISITING ARTISTS nity members of all age groups. Antonio Neto For over 25 years, The Last Poets have Brazilian Culture” consisting of Neto’s unique State University had a reputation for fiery politics and bril- mix of photography, design, and photojour- of Bahia liant poetry. The Poets performed songs from nalism. The South End summarized, “Neto Brazil their many albums including their latest, showed a great worldly compassion to the February 1-25, Time Has Come. WSU audience that resonated with aspiring 2003 Comprised of wordsmiths Umar Bin artists as well as professors and profession- The Last Poets Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole and matched als.” by the beats of drummer Don “Babtunde” February 6, 2003 Eaton, the group is well-known as a classic HONORS THESIS GRANT AWARDED example of African-Anmerican music. The In conjunction with the University Hon- Poets continue to draw the admiration of ors Program, The Humanities Center awards UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESIS contemporaries as well as a new generation. up to $500 to juniors and seniors who have AWARD been declared Honor majors in good stand- Soraya Saatchi TWO INTERNATIONAL VISITING SCHOLARS ing. This year’s winner, Soraya Saatchi, won Major: History of Wanda Chesney, a visiting professor support for travel and training in Farsi in the Near East from the University of Guyana, will be at order to complete her Honors Thesis on the Wayne State from May 1 through July of religious history of Iran during the rule of 2003. The Center is pleased to be able to the Qajar kings as seen through the eyes of bring Chesney to Michigan. Persian scholars. 27 Announcing... Faculty Fellows 2003-2004

FACULTY FELLOWS 2003-2004 A LOOK AHEAD: 2004-2005 COMPETITION “THE RELIGIOUS AND THE SECULAR” The 2004-2005 Faculty Fellowship theme is Congratulations to these Faculty Fellows, who “The Body.” Faculty are invited to submit were named in Spring of 2003. They will applications for this prestigious award be- present papers at the Fellows Conference in fore the deadline of March 26, 2004. An ex- March 2004. plication follows. For over two decades, scholars and art- ists in the humanities have been attempting JENNIFER SHERIDAN MOSS to liberate the body from its subservient po- Classics, Greek & Latin sition in the mind/body binary and give it at- SCHEDULED The Religious in the Midst of the Secular: tention in its own right. This work has led to PROGRAMS Religious Rhetoric in the Civil Courts of many methodological and theoretical break- 2003-2004 Roman Egypt throughs that have allowed new ways of thinking about bodies. BRUCE RUSSELL But the body is not thereby conceived RESIDENT SCHOLARS Philosophy as isolated and autonomous; rather, it stands Deadline: July 18, 2003 The Existence of God at the interface of the physiological and the FRANCIS SHOR psychological, the physical and the cultural, the individual and the social. This perspec- 10TH ANNIVERSARY Interdisciplinary Studies From ‘Beloved Community’ to Black Power: tive foregrounds new themes and pushes for- RECEPTION & CONFERENCE ward new questions for the humanities in the November 13-14, 2003 The Religious/Secular Dialectic in the 21st century. For instance, the body is in- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee creasingly studies as a mode of expression, 2004-2005 FACULTY JANET LANGLOIS whether through performance or through English decoration and alteration of the body. FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION: Along these lines, scholars ask how the THEME: ‘THE BODY’ ‘Other Worlds’: An Ethnographic Study of Personal Accounts of the Return of the Dead body functions as a site for the marking of Deadline: March 26, 2003 identity and difference (for instance, the and Other Mystical Experiences in Health- gendered or the racialized body). Others fo- Related Contexts cus on the body in terms of power, asking EDWARD M. WISE BRIAN MADIGAN how disciplined, civilized, and socialized DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP Art & Art History beings are brought into existence in differ- Deadline: October 17, 2003 Roman Ceremonial Sculpture ent cultures and historical periods. At the same time, they consider how embodiment ARTHUR MAROTTI ONGOING PROGRAMS might be a source for grounding agency or English resistance. Such topics and questions may GRADUATE TRAVEL Catholic Writing in Early Modern England lead some scholars to histories and theories MUNUSCULUM GRANTS KEN JACKSON of the body that highlight the power dynam- VISITING SCHOLARS English ics and cultural relations expressed through Deadline: July 18, 2003 for Abraham and the Abrahamic in Shakespeare and on the body; and to question how cul- Fall; November 14, 2003 for ture and power relations are implicated and ELIZABETH DORN expressed in these histories. Spring History The body as an intersection of the cul- ‘For God, Home, and Country’: The tural as and the physiological encourages a WORKING GROUPS Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and new perspective on such phenomena as emo- Deadline: Sept. 26, 2003 Reform Efforts in the Meiji Period tions and affect as well as health and illness. It also suggests attention to areas of agree- ANNE DUGGAN ment or of tension between the emerging per- INNOVATIVE PROJECTS Romance Languages & Literatures spectives on the bodies in the humanities and Deadline: Dec. 5, 2003 The Bishop of Belley’s Bloody Stories: the current theories underpinning physical Divine Justice in the Theater of the World sciences of the body. Finally, new attention BROWN BAG COLLOQUIA ROBERT MARTIN to the body encourages us to ask what is at Art & Art History stake, philosophically and culturally, in maintaining or, conversely, in moving away Voudou: An Interactive Opera from, the mind/body dichotomy. 28 2003-2004 Activities A Look Ahead

BROWN BAG COLLOQUIA NOVEMBER 11 Jerry Cleveland PLANNED FOR 2003-2004 Associate Professor, Theatre SEPTEMBER 9 Title TBA Margaret Winters Associate Provost & NOVEMBER 18 Jeff Nathan Barrett Watten Associate Professor, English Associate Professor, English Title TBA TBA

SEPTEMBER 16 DECEMBER 2 FEBRUARY 12 Steve Winter Norah Duncan IV Sheila Lloyd Professor, Law & Director, Center for Legal Associate Professor, Music Assistant Professor, English Studies “New Trends in African American Spiritual Title TBA “What Makes Modernity Late?” Music” FEBRUARY 17 SEPTEMBER 23 DECEMBER 9 Beth Bates Charles Stivale Matthew Seeger Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures; Associate Professor, Communication Title TBA Interim Chair, Art & Art History Title TBA “Zydeco Will Never Die” FEBRUARY 24 JANUARY 6 Dennis Tini SEPTEMBER 28 Julie Klein Professor & Chair, Music Avis Vidal Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies “The Music Worlds of Dennis Tini” Chair, Geography and Urban Planning “Interdisciplinary, Humanities, and Cultural FEBRUARY 26 “Social capital and community Studies” Dora Apel Development” JANUARY 13 Assistant Professor, Art & Art History Carla Harryman “Antilynching Images: Strategies of OCTOBER 7 Senior Lecturer, English Representation and the Problem of the Abject” Dallas Kenny Title TBA Associate Vice President -Global Education Title TBA MARCH 2 JANUARY 20 Stuart Henry Michael Giordano Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies OCTOBER 14 Associate Professor, Romance Languages & Sandra VanBurkleo “Crime as a Collaborative Project: Personal Literatures Roles in the Creation of Crime” Professor, History “The Visible and the Sayable in Selected “Breaking Promises: The Strange Case of Leg- Visual Media of the Renaissance” islative Divorce in 19th Century America” MARCH 23 Jean Andruski & Eugenia Casielles JANUARY 27 Assistant Professor, ASLP; Assistant Professor, OCTOBER 21 Dana Seitler Eugenia Casielles Romance Languages & Literatures Assistant Professor, English Title TBA Assistant Professor, Romance Language & Title TBA Literatures MARCH 30 “Towards a Typology of Topics” Jose Cuello FEBRUARY 3 Professor & Director, Center for Chicano & OCTOBER 28 Michelle Ronnick Borica Studies Jack Kay Associate Professor, Classics Title TBA Associate Vice President, VP-Academic Affairs “Classical Elements in the Writing of Percival “The Music of Contemporary Hate Groups: Everett, Contemporary African American Nov- APRIL 1 Cyberspace and the Language of Oppression” elist” Mel Rosas Professor, Art & Art History NOVEMBER 4 FEBRUARY 10 Title TBA Robert Thomas Gary Sands Dean, College of Science Professor, CULMA APRIL 8 “Da Ja Ting” (Big Family) - A Personal Per- Title TBA David Weinberg spective on Two Decades of Scientific and Cul- Professor, History & Director, Center for Judaic tural Exchanges with Friends from China” Studies Title TBA 29 2001-2002 Annual Report New Programs

TWO NEW PROGRAMS INTRODUCED IN 2002-2003 ACADEMIC YEAR

FACULTY GRANT MENTORSHIP PROGRAM A new program for 2002-2003, the faculty grant mentorship program aimed to facilitate external grant writing by allowing Above: Arthur Marotti describes successful faculty with experience in obtaining grant grant-seeking techniques at his grant NEW PROGRAMS IN funding in the humanities and arts to share mentoring seminar. 2002-2003 advice with colleagues seeking external grants. The Center appointed two mentors a National Endowment for the Humanities and provided each with an award of $2,000 Fellowship. He was also a Humanities Center FACULTY GRANT for the academic year. fellow at The Johns Hopkins University. This MENTORSHIP In the 2002-2003 year, the program year, Arthur has been chosen to evaluate senior PROGRAM received applicants from numerous well- fellowship applications for the National qualified faculty members with experience in Endowment for the Humanities. Arthur Marotti, both obtaining grants and serving as judges Each of the mentors gave a brown bag English of grants. Arthur Marotti and Nancy Locke luncheon talk about writing successful grant Applying for Indi- were selected as the first grant mentors for proposals, and the two mentors also jointly vidual Fellowships the arts and humanities. held hands-on workshops to assist Wayne State and Grants Locke, of the Art & Art History faculty with their proposals in progress. In department, has served on a panel jurying addition, Drs. Locke and Marotti met Nancy Locke, Art Summer Stipends for the National individually with grant-seekers for one-on-one & Art History Endowment for the Humanities and as a judge advising. In all, the mentors assisted with over Reading Between a dozen grant proposals. the Lines and Left: Nancy Writing Grant MUNUSCULUM SMALL GRANTS Locke was one Proposals in the two Humanities The Center now has set aside $5,000 per Arts and Humanities Center grant year for a “Small Grants” program. The mentors for program offers offer up to $300 to help faculty 2002-2003. with the following academic expenses: data MUNUSCULUM base searches to support research and creative Photo courtesy of Christopher Campbell SMALL GRANTS projects; reproduction (photographs, for the Social Sciences and Humanities microfilms, videos) of things viewed at Research Council of Canada. She is a past libraries or museums; costs of using recipient of nine WSU grants including a copyrighted materials in publications; artwork Humanities Center Fellowship. She won a or photographs used in publications; National Endowment for the Humanities production of camera-ready manuscripts; Summer Stipend and a Dedalus Foundation direct subvention to publishers, but excluding Senior Fellowship. travel expenses. Requests are funded on a first- Marotti, a professor in the English come-first-serve basis until the budget is department, has a long history of writing exhausted. Although the program was not successful grant proposals, including a initiated until after the academic year had Guggenheim Fellowship, an American begun, fourteen faculty received support Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and through this program. 30 2003 Event Preview 10th Anniversary Celebration

CELEBRATION! HUMANITIES CENTER 10TH ANNIVERSARY over as its chair, and his reputation has been The Humanities Center will cel- solidly built on several fronts as well. As a ebrate its first decade of supporting and critic and editor, Gates contributed to 10 Years of Excellence facilitating humanities and interdisci- broadening the discourse on African plinary research at Wayne State with a American literature with books like Figures reception, conference and commemo- in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self 1993 2003 rative volume. On November 13 the (1987) and The Signifying Monkey: celebration will kick off with a recep- Towards a Theory of Afro-American tion and book and art exhibition for Literary Criticism (1988), which offer The center’s largest pro- all faculty who have won awards refreshing critical approaches that consider gram, Faculty Fellowships, has awarded over $250,000 through the Center’s many programs. cultural traditions in African American to WSU faculty in the last The November 14 conference on “Hu- literature. decade. Awardees have been invited to submit an manities and Social Change” will fea- Elaine Scarry is the author of four essay for publication in a ture keynote addresses by Elaine books: The Body in Pain; On Beauty and commemorative Being Just, Dreaming by the Book; and Re- volumebased on the follow- Scarry and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., both ing past fellowship themes: of Harvard University. sisting Representation. She won the Henry Louis Gates Jr. is one of the Truman Capote prize in 2000 for Dream- 2001-2002 most prominent and well-known academics ing by the Book. Her latest book, Who De- The City and Civic in the United States today. He has drawn fended the Country? is a minute-by-minute Virtue the world’s attention to Harvard’s Afro- analysis of the phone calls, official reports, 2000-2001 Plants, Animals & American Studies program since he took responses, and reported actions of passen- Insects gers on two flights hijacked on September in Human Culture 11, 2001. Leading off a provocative de- 1999-2000 bate, she asks if the difficulty we had as a Adults and Children country in defending ourselves on Septem- at Play ber 11 suggests serious flaws in our national 1998-1999 Landscapes of security. Depopulation Wayne State faculty including Zanita 1997-1998 Fenton (Law), Jerry Herron (English), The Question of Sandra VanBurkleo (History), Ron Freedom Aronson (Interdisciplinary Studies), and 1996-1997 Craig Beverly (Social Work) will round out Humanities and the Millennium: Beginnings the the conference schedule. and Endings In addition to the reception and con- 1995-1996 ference, a volume of essays based on the The Influence of Center’s past Faculty Fellowship Compe- Memory on the Study tition themes is planned. Editors for the of History, Language volume are Sandra VanBurkleo (History), and Truth 1994-1995 Heidi Gottfried (CULMA), Mary Garrett Technology in Culture/ and (Communication) Margaret Franklin Culture in Technology Above: Harvard professors Henry Louis (Art & Art History). 1993-1994 Gates Jr., author of “The Signifying Monkey”, As part of the Humanities Center’s Constructing Identity and Elaine Scarry, author of “On Beauty and anniversary celebration, the Honors Above and Below: Being Just” have been engaged as keynote Program will be co-sponsoring a stu- Urban, Transnational, speakers at the conference celebrating the and National Humanities Center’s tenth anniversary. dent essay competition on the impor- Perspectives tance of arts and humanities in all as- 31 pects of culture and life. 2147 Old Main 4841 Cass Avenue Detroit, MI 48202 Tel: 313 577.5471 Fax: 313 577.2843

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