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AANNUAL RREPORT 2003-20042003-2004 HUMANITIES CENTER The Humanities Center YNATWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY ADVISORY BOARD 2003-2004 IRVIN D. REID, PRESIDENT Nancy S. Barrett Our Mission NANCY S. BARRETT, PROVOST & SENIOR VP FOR Provost Ex Officio ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Walter F. Edwards Director
BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2003-2004 Dora Apel Assistant Professor RICHARD BERNSTEIN Art & Art History EUGENE DRIKER Anne Duggan DIANE L. DUNASKISS Assistant Professor Romance Language & Literatures ELIZABETH HARDY PAUL HILLEGONDS Mary Garrett Associate Professor PAUL E. MASSARON, CHAIR Communication Bringing Humanists Together ANNETTA MILLER Heidi Gottfried for Collaborative Research JACQUELINE E. WASHINGTON, VICE CHAIR Associate Professor College of Urban, Labor, & Metropolitan Affairs
Suzanne Hilgendorf Assistant Professor THE HUMANITIES CENTER German & Slavic Languages
aims to foster interdisciplinary and intra-disciplinary studies in the Kristine Miranne humanitites and arts through themed and unthemed competitions, seminars, Director Skillman Center for Children forums, and research discussions among groups of faculty and graduate stu- dents at Wayne State University and through the ideas of invited visiting David Moxley Professor professors. The Center seeks to promote excellence in humanistic and cre- School of Social Work
ative endeavors through rigorous peer review of proposals submitted by fac- John Richardson ulty and students for funding through its various programs, and to involve Assistant Professor departments, programs, and other centers and institutes at the University in Art & Art History collaborative efforts to advance humanisitic and artistic work. Through these Maria Roti PhD Candidate activities, the Center aims to become a site of innovation and excellence in Anthropology the humanities and arts with a strong commitment to interdisciplinary or Michael Scrivener trans-disciplinary study in the arts and humanities. Professor English
Diane Sybeldon 2003-2004 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS Librarian University Libraries DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE 3 Barrett Watten 10TH ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION & CONFERENCE 4-5 Associate Professor English LIST OF AWARDEES, 1993-2003 6-7 STEERING COMMITTEE RESIDENT SCHOLARS 8-10 Dedria Bryfonski INNOVATIVE PROJECTS 11 Gale Publishing
EDWARD M. WISE DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP 12 Mildred Jeffrey (deceased) Governor Emeritas, BROWN BAG COLLOQUIUM SERIES 13-21 Wayne State University RANT ENTORS UNUSCULUM GRANTS G M & M 22 Karin McClow-Orr GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS 23 Michigan Humanities Council ACULTY ELLOWS ONFERENCE Guy Stern F F C 24-25 Distinguished Professor of German & Slavic Studies, Wayne State WORKING GROUPS 26-28 University
VISITING SCHOLARS & OTHER ACTIVITIES 29 Margaret Bruni Assistant Director, Detroit Public A LOOK AHEAD 30-31 Library 2 Left: Humanities Center Director, Dr. A Message From the Director Walter F. Edwards 1993-2003 Overview
This year’s message is excerpted from an address given by the Director ture each other’s work. So far we have housed and funded 55 such on the occasion of the Humanites Center’s 10th Anniversary Reception, scholars. We initiated our Tuesday Brown Bag colloquia in 1997 November 13, 2003: and it has grown exponentially each year. By the end of 2004 year Dear colleagues and friends of the Humanities Center, we will have hosted 152 Brown Bag presentations. The Innovative After a decade of serving the Humanities Center, I’m proud of the Project competition was added in 1999, and so were our Working accomplishments of the Center yet humble that I have had the privi- Groups program, our Visiting Scholars program and our Gradu- lege of being its Director throughout its history so far. Thus, we pause ate Travel program. In 2001 we added our Honors Thesis support at this historical moment, the Center’s 10th anniversary, to reflect on program and in 2002 we added the Grant Mentoring program. this last decade. Any successful enterprise owes its achievements, at least in part, The Center’s journey began in the spring of 1993 when I was an to its leadership. The Center is no exception. From its inception, the associate dean of the Graduate School and Garrett Heberlien was Center had been led by its advisory boards: multi-disciplinary VP for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. I recall poignantly panels of twelve faculty and graduate students drawn from humani- the morning in May when Gary walked into my office and asked me ties and related departments across the campus. With their guid- if I’d like to take on the task of writing up a draft charter for a new ance, the Center has been able to demonstrate that it is a partner Humanities Center. Gary, a biologist, had been given this strange with colleges and departments in supporting the work of human- assignment by President David Adamany who wanted a charter writ- ists at Wayne State. Our board members have helped the Center ten almost immediately. Dr. Adamany had put together an endow- garner the support of faculty, chairs and deans in all the relevant ment fund of some M$2.5, and wanted to use the earnings to support departments and colleges, and from the administration. The breadth a Humanities Center that would encourage interdisciplinary work of that support is evident in this audience. Through the intellectual across the traditional humanities, and would forge alliances between rigor with which they review proposals, the boards have helped to humanists and scholars in the social, natural and medical sciences. characterize the Center as a prestigious academic institution whose I worked on the charter; Gary and the President piloted the applica- grants are won only through the submission of excellent proposals. tion through the Senate and Board of Governors. And on a Novem- Finally, I wish to salute the contributions that the humanities ber day in 1993 our Center was officially born. continue to make to our civilization. The theologian Daniel Maguire In the beginning, the Center was just a funding agency, operating asserted that humanists are “the midwives of new consciousnesses, out of my office in the Graduate School and providing summer fel- the heralds of suppressed or previously unsuspected human possi- lowships to faculty doing interdisciplinary work based on annual bility”. The humanities are the mirror which shows us the reflec- themes identified by our advisory board. However, it was immedi- tion of our experience. Through the humanities we revive and insis- ately clear that faculty saw the need for the Center’s mission. This tently maintain our capactiy to feel, affirm and rejoice over our was evident from the surprisingly strong response to our very first dignity and worth. Through the humanities we carry on a discourse faculty fellowship competition in 1994 on the theme “Constructing about our societies, we actively contemplate and negotiate mean- Identity from Above and Below: Urban, Transnational, and National ings and values. Through the humanities we explore the most cen- Perspectives”. A total of 34 faculty sent in proposals; we funded 15 of tral aspects of our humanity: our minds, feelings, and our culture. these projects, and we were on our way. To date we have awarded It is because of the importance of humanities that Centers such as grants totaling some $800,000 to fund 102 projects. ours are crucial to our academic and intellectual infrastructure. This Since 1994 we have had an annual spring conference that show- Humanities Center seeks and has sought, via systematic encour- cases the research and art accomplished by our grant recipients, and agement, to provide the experimental, interactive, interdisciplinary a fall symposium on an interdisciplinary theme. Through these gath- culture that is supportive of the humanities and arts, and we shall erings we have further explored the annual themes and also such continue to do so. In this gathering of friends I wish to ask for your topics as “The Humanities and Civic Engagement”, “The Notions of continued support for the humanities and the Humanities Center Beauty and Truth”, “The Meaning of Citizenship;” and “The Hu- at WSU. In a complex university like ours where many excellent manities and Social Change.” These conferences and symposia have programs are competing for support, it is important that you let featured our own faculty and students along with distinguished schol- your voices be heard in support of the Center. In the poem “The ars who have been keynote speakers. Our keynoters have included Second Coming”, W.B. Yeats observed that in our contemporary Arnold Rampersaud, Bell Hooks, David Hickey, Patricia Williams, society, “The best lack conviction while the worse are full of pas- Eric Foner, Nancy Leiberman-Kline, Donna Haraway, Thomas sionate intensity”. I’d like to encourage you to reverse that para- Sugrue, Emilio Vergara, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Elaine Scarry. digm and be passionately intense about your support of the Center In 1994-95 the Center added its doctoral dissertation fellowship, wherever and whenever the opportunity presents itself. And so I which has now become the Edward Wise Dissertation Fellowship. ask you to raise your glasses: “To the humanities, to the arts, to Since then we have awarded 19 doctoral students some $114,000. In you, and to the future!” 1997, the Center moved into Old Main and introduced our Resident Thank you! Scholars program which allows us to have humanists from different disciplines working in the same place with the opportunity to nur- 3 10th Anniversary Celebration The Humanities and Social Change
TENTH ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION AND TENTH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE 10 Years of Excellence EXHIBITION, NOVEMBER 13, 2003 NOVEMBER 14, 2003 On the evening of November 13, 2003, the The next day, November 14th, the halls of Old Main outside the offices of the Cen- Center’s Tenth Anniversary Conference took ter were filled with faculty, students, and sup- place in McGregor Hall, with keynote lectures porters of the Center gathered to celebrate the given by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Elaine mission, achievements, and future of the Center. 1993 2003 Scarry, both of Harvard University. Wayne Diane Sybeldon of the University Libraries em- State faculty and one former WSU faculty ceed the event. An oral history was given by member also presented the following at the Walter Edwards, who has been Director of the CONFERENCE TITLES conference: 1993-2003 Center from its inception in 1993. Mame Jack- son (Former Chair of Art and Art History, WSU) Ronald Aronson (Interdisciplinary Stud- ies Program), “Philosophy and Social 1993-1994 Mary Garrett, (Chair, Communications) and Constructing Identity Margaret Winters (Associate Provost) offered Change”; Beverly Creigs (Social Work), Above and Below: Urban, “Community and Social Change”; Marc Transnational, and welcome, greetings, and support for the Center’s National Perspectives goals. Later, those gathered were treated to Cogan (Humanities), “Dante vs. Plato: The music, poetry readings, food and drink, and the Battle of the Centuries”; David Fasenfest 1994-1995 Technology in Culture/ company of other supporters of the humanities (CULMA); “Sociology and Social Change”; Culture in Technology and the Humanities Center. Zanita Fenton (Law School), “Law and So- Christopher Collins and members of his 1995-1996 cial Change: Humpty Dumpty and the Chicken The Influence of Memory band performed his stirring composition “The Salad Sandwich”; Jerry Herron (English), on the Study of History, Banshee”, among other selections; William “Literature and Life, or, Why Quotation Mat- Language and Truth Harris read from one of his plays in progress; ters”; Bill Trapani (Communication), 1996-1997 Robert Conway performed his interpretation “Strange Angels: Communication and the Poli- Humanities and the of classical pieces for piano; Melba Boyd read tics of Hope”; Sandra VanBurkleo (History), Millennium: Beginnings several of her poems, including “I want my city and Endings “History and Social Change”; Margaret Win- back”; and M.L. Leibler performed several of 1997-1998 his own poems. ters (Associate Provost and Professor of Ro- The Question of Freedom An exhibition of published books, articles mance Languages & Literatures), “Language and Social Change”; and Mysoon Rizk (Con- 1998-1999 and CDs resulting from the Humanities Center’s Landscapes of financial support over the last decade was also temporary Art History, University of Toledo), Depopulation on display during the reception, along with a “Manifesto for Maintenance: Art IS Social 1999-2000 commemorative booklet listing the winners of Change.” Adults and Children at awards over the last ten years (see list, pp. 6-7). Play
2000-2001 Plants, Animals & Insects in Human Culture Right: Humanities Center Director 2001-2002 Walter F. Edwards The City and Civic Virtue addresses a large 2002-2003 audience at the The Religious and the reception, held in Secular: Past, Present Old Main.on and Future November 13, 2003.
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Right: Henry Steeltown and Literate Practices” by Gwen 10 Years of Excellence Louis Gates, Jr. Gorzelsky (English); and “Homosexuality and Elaine Scarry, and Biblical Interpretation” by John Corvino both of Harvard, (Philosophy). delivered keynote Part II, Memory, will include “The addresses at the Humanities Double Deployment of Memory: Enacting and Center’s 10th Remembering the Paterson and Star of 1993 2003 Anniversary Ethiopia Pageants” by Francis Shor conference on the (Interdisciplinary Studies), “The Sibling FALL SYMPOSIA TOPICS theme, “The Archipelago: Brother-sister Love and Class Humanities and 1993-2003* Social Change” Formation in Nineteenth-Century France” by Christopher Johnson (History); “Six Centuries of Collaboration” by Lisa 2000 The Humanities and Civic Vollendorf (Romance Languages & Engagement Literatures); “The Affair - Pinochet in 2001 London: Its Echoes in Chilean Authors and The Notions of Beauty Its Mirror in Spain” by Jorgelina Corbatta and Pleasure (Romance Languages & Literatures); and 2002 OMMEMORATIVE OLUME UBMITTED FOR “Brer Rabbit” by William Harris (English). The Meaning of C V S Citizenship PUBLICATION TO WSU PRESS Part III, Nationalism and Globalism In addition to our special anniversary will include “The Making of the English 2003 Hunting Seat” by Donna Landry (English); The Humanities and reception and conference, the Humanites Social Change (10th Center decided to issue a call for papers that “The Sultan’s Beasts: James Bond Goes to Anniversary Conference) had resulted from the Center’s faculty Istanbul” by Gerald MacLean (English); fellowships awarded over the last ten years. “Narratives of Place” by Richard Marback The Wayne State Press has agreed to consider (English); and “Mexico in 1824: The publishing this as a commemorative volume Consequences of Freedom” by Robert of previously unpublished work. The volume, Aguirre (English). entitled REMAPPING THE HUMANITIES: The final part of the volume is entitled Identity, Community, Memory, Toward (Post)Modernity and will include “In (Post)Modernity will be edited by Mary The Shadows of the Galileo” by Bob Strozier Garrett (Communication), Heidi Gottfried (English); “Adults at Play” by Anne Duggan (CULMA), and Sandra Van Burkleo (Romance Languages & Literatures); *NOTE: 1994-1999 SYMPOSIA (History). It will include a preface, “Depopulated Landscapes (reproductions)” by WERE MINI-CONFERENCES ON THE SAME THEMES AS THE FACULTY “Integrating the Humanities and the Arts”, by Jim Nawara; “The Cajun/Zydeco Music and FELLOWS COMPETITION. SYMPOSIA ARE HELD IN THE FALL Walter F. Edwards, Humanities Center Dance Arena Online: Diaspora in Cyberspace” EACH YEAR, AND CONFERENCES by Charles Stivale (Romance Languages & ARE IN THE WINTER. THE 2003 Director. ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE Part I of the volume will focus on Literatures); and “Coercion and the Quest REPLACED THE FALL SYMPOSIUM FOR THAT YEAR Identity and Community and will include for Substantive Freedom” by Brad Roth “Staged Feminisms” by Anca Vlasopolos (Political Science). (English); “Prolegomena to a Becoming-Free: We are excited about the prospect of Mapping Liberty over Bodies, Identities and publishing this anthology as a celebration of Multiculturalism” by Fabienne Chauderlot the Center’s rich tradition of supporting (Romance Languages & Literatures); scholarship covering a broad spectrum of “Utopians at Play” by Philip R Abbott humanities disciplines. (Political Science); “Manufacturing Citizens: 5 2003-2004 Anniversary Celebration Humanities Center Awardees, 1993-2003
Over the past ten years, the Humanities Center has awarded over $800,000 in grants, fellowships, and travel support to faculty and students for outstanding innovative, collaborative, humanistic and creative research projects. The next two pages list major awardees.
Faculty Fellows Faculty Fellows Faculty Fellows 1993-1994 1996-1997 2001-2002 Corey Creekmur, English Karen Jankowsky, German & Slavic Jeffrey Abt, Art & Art History Cynthia Erb, English Nancy Locke, Art & Art History Dora Apel, Art & Art History Jerry Herron, English Arthur Marotti, English John Corvino, Philosophy Manuel Martín-Rodriguez, Romance Jacqueline Huey, Sociology Margaret Franklin, Romance Languages Michele Valerie Ronnick, Classics Christopher Johnson, History Gwen Gorzelsky, English Marc Kruman, History Anca Vlasopolos, English Richard Marback, English Nancy Locke, Art & Art History Peter Williams, Art & Art History Janice Mann, Art & Art History 1997-1998 Laura Reese, Geography & Urban Planning Eva Powers, Dance Robert Aguirre, English Barrett Watten, English Alana Barter, Dance Ellen Barton, Linguistics 2002-2003 John Reed, English Lesley Brill, English Elizabeth Dorn, History Francis Shor, Interdisiplinary Studies John J. Bukowczyk, Alfred Cobbs, Lisa Anne Duggan, Romance Charles Stivale, Romance Languages Gurr, Sheila Lloyd, History, German & Ken Jackson, English Robert Strozier, English Slavic, Anthropology, English (respectively) Janet Langlois, English Anca Vlasopolos, English Fabienne-Sophie Chauderlot, Romance Brian Madigan, Art & Art History Joseph Ward, Donna Landry, Gerald MacLean, Jorge L. Chinea, History History, English, English (respectively) Brad Roth, Political Science Arthur Marotti, English 1994-1995 Frances Trix, Anthropology Robert Martin, Art & Art History Jeffrey Abt, Art & Art History Sandra Van Burkleo, History Jennifer Sheridan Moss, Classics Ellen Barton, Linguistics Olivia Washington, Nursing Bruce Russell, Philosophy Nancy Baym, Art & Art History Edward M. Wise, Law Francis Shor, Interdisiplinary Studies Jackie Byars, Communication 1998-1999 Kenneth Cory, Library & I.S. Cynthia Erb, English Innovative Projects Henry Golemba, English Jerry Herron, English 1999-2000 Effie Hanchet, Nursing Linda Housch-Collins, History Ronald Aronson, Interdisciplinary Studies Jack Kay, Communication James E. Nawara, Art & Art History James Hartway, John Reed, James Hartway, Music Ruth Ray, English Barbara Humphries, Philosophy John Richardson, Tom Paul Fitzgerald, Music, English (respectively) James Lentini, Music Robert Martin, Jiro J. Masuda, Erika Wolf, 2001-2002 Gerald MacLean, English Art & Art History Dora Apel, Art & Art History Charles Stivale, Romance Languages May Seikaly, Near Eastern Studies Barrett Watten, Carla Harryman, English Horst Uhr, Art & Art History Marilyn Zimmerman, Art & Art History John Corvino, Philosophy Barrett Watten, English 1999-2000 M.L. Liebler, Olivia Washington, 1995-1996 Phillip Abbott, Political Science English, Nursing (respectively) Phillip Abbott, Political Science Abigail Butler, Music Ronald Brown, Political Science 2002-2003 Robert Conway, Music Jean Andruski, Eugenia Casielles, Jorgelina Corbatta, Romance Languages Jorgelina Corbatta, Romance Languages Audiology & Speech Language Pathology, John Eipper, Romance Languages Anne Duggan, Romance Languages Michael Giordano, Romance Languages Kirsten Thompson, English Romance Languages (respectively) Michael Goldfield, C.U.L.M.A. Lisa Vollendorf, Romance Languages Tamara Bray, Anthropology Christopher Johnson, History Edward M. Wise, Law Chris Tysh, English Osumaka Likaka, History 2000-2001 Sandra Dupret, Mame Jackson, Kathryne Lindberg, English Gordon B. Neavill, Library & I.S. Christopher Collins, Music Art & Art History Martha Ratliff, Linguistics William Harris, English Lisa Vollendorf, Romance Languages Monica Schuler, History Donna Landry, English Ronald Aronson, Interdisciplinary Studies Gerald MacLean, English Melvin Small, History Barrett Watten, Carla Harryman, English Anca Vlasopolos, English Cynthia Erb, English Daphne Ntiri, Feleta Wilson, Peter Williams, Art & Art History Linda Hogle, Anthropology Interdisciplinary Studies, Nursing (respectively) 6 2003-2004 Anniversary Celebration Humanities Center Awardees, 1993-2003
Ten Years of Excellence 1993 - 2003
Resident Scholars Working Groups Dissertation Fellows 1997-1998 in the Humanities and Arts (Topics) 1994-1995 Ronald Aronson, Interdisciplinary Studies 1999-2000 Deborah Najor, English Cynthia Erb, English Interdisciplinary Approaches to Folk Tales Marie-Claire Simonetti, Communication Marion Jackson, Art & Art History and Fairytales 1995-1996 Osumaka Likaka, History Gordon Neavill, Library & I.S. Justice Studies Stephen Germic, History Guy Stern, Romance Languages Suchitra Mathur, English 1998-1999 2000-2001 David Riddle, History Ron Brown, Political Science Digital Culture David Smith, History Marion Jackson, English 1996-1997 Osumaka Likaka, History Justice Studies William Elster, History Olga Tsoudis, Criminal Justice Jodi Wyett, English Sandra VanBurkleo, History Interdisciplinary Approaches to Arabian 1997-1998 Edward M. Wise, Law Nights 1999-2000 Jose Ibanez, Romance Languages Ron Brown, Political Science 2001-2002 Robert Mellin, English David Canales-Portalatin, Criminal Justice End of Life Maria Pons-Hervas, Romance Languages Jorgelina Corbatta, Romance Languages 1998-1999 Li-Mei Chang, English Philosophy of Mathematics Natalie Atkin, History Valerie Felita Kinloch, English Glen Bessemer, History Sandra Van Burkleo, History Fairy Tales in Visual Culture 1999-2000 Leon Wilson, Sociology Li-Mei Chang, Communication Edward M. Wise, Law Justice Studies 2000-2001 Susan Honeyman, English Valerie Felita Kinloch, English Richard Bilaitis, Art & Art History Digital Culture Ron Brown, Political Science Lisa Marie Portiz, Romance Languages Donald Haase, German & Slavic Gender and Workplace 2000-2001 Chris Leland, English Joseph Helminski, English Kathryne V. Lindberg, Zanita E. Fenton, Detroit Voices Jane Yamazaki, Communication Law, English (respectively) Sandra Van Burkleo, History 2002-2003 Edward M. Wise Dissertation Fellows & Kathleen McNamee, Classics Detroit Voices 2001-2002 Awardees 2001-2002 Richard Bilaitis, Art & Art History Diasporic Communities in North America: Julie Towell, English, (Fellow) Donald Haase, German & Slavic Expressions of Displacement and Evolving Chris Leland, English Identities Craig Smith, History (Awardee) M.L. Liebler, English Mark Huston, Philosophy (Awardee) Jennifer Sheridan Moss, Classics A Cross-Linguistic View of the Nature of 2002-2003 Steven Stack, Criminal Justice Nonessential Speech Erik Mortensen, English (Fellow) Lisa Vollendorf, Romance Kyoung Lee, English (Awardee) Renata Wasserman, English The Fold: Theory and practice Parvinder Mehta, English (Awardee) 2002-2003 Alfred Cobbs, German & Slavic Transatlantic Exchanges: Interchange of Grant Mentors Anne Duggan, Romance Languages Cultures between Great Britain/Europe and 2002-2003 Marc Kruman, History the Southern Western Hemisphere Janet Langlois, English Arthur Marotti, English Robert Silverman, Sociology Science and Society Nancy Locke, Art & Art History Elizabeth Faue, History Kathryn Paesani, Romance Languages Digital Culture Roslyn Abt Schindler, Interdisciplinary Studies End of Life Anca Vlasopolos, English David Weinberg, History 7 2003-2004 Annual Report Resident Scholars
One of the Center’s oldest programs, the gual first language acquisition, which I am Resident Scholars Program is open to all full- developing in collaboration with two col- time faculty in the humanities, arts, and leagues at WSU: Jean Andruski and Geoff related disciplines. This program provides Nathan. This interdisciplinary project was ini- office space, basic office equipment, and tially supported by the Center’s Innovative administrative support from Center staff. Projects Awards and has been recently funded Additionally, monthly “roundtable” meetings by the President’s Research Enhancement Pro- allow our residents to discuss and present their gram. I am very thankful to the Humanities current research in an engaging Center for funding and for providing such HUMANITIES CENTER interdisiplinary environment. Resident calm, stress-free environment, which is per- RESIDENT SCHOLARS Scholars are also eligible for up to $600 in fect for residents to concentrate on their re- 2003-2004 support for travel and equipment expenses, search projects. I also appreciated the stimu- or to pay for research assistance. Over the lating interaction between faculty promoted EUGENIA CASIELLES years, over 50 faculty at WSU have taken part by the Center. It was a real pleasure to share ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in this program. The work of the Resident projects, and ideas with other residents and ROMANCE LANGUAGES Scholars for 2003-2004 is described below. to participate in the Center’s Brown Bag pre- sentations and Working Groups Program.” Dr. SUZANNE HILGENDORF Casielles used her Resident Scholar award to purchase audio recording equipment for this ASSISTANT PROFESSOR project. GERMAN & SLAVIC STUDIES Suzanne Hilgendorf CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON FULL YEAR RESIDENT PROFESSOR During her year in residence, Dr. HISTORY Hilgendorf received Center support for her expansion and revision of her dissertation for publication as a volume. The tentative title of the volume is English in Germany: The Other Tongue in the Federal Republic. Dr. Hilgendorf describes this work as “a qualita- tive, macrosociolinguistic examination of the Suzanne Hilgendorf, Assistant Professor of German, was a impact of the world’s lingua franca in Europe’s full-year Resident in 2003-2004, during which time she worked toward the completion of a book. most populous country as well as its most powerful economy.” Dr. Hilgendorf reported that much progress was made toward her goal Eugenia Casielles during her residency. She also used part of FULL YEAR RESIDENT her Resident Scholar award toward travel ex- Dr. Casielles describes her residency, penses to attend the American Council of “I really enjoyed being a resident at the Hu- Teachers of Foreign Languages conference in manities Center for a full year. It was a great Philadelphia. experience personally and professionally. I was able to finish revising my manuscript The Syn- Christopher Johnson tax-Information Structure Interface: Evidence FULL YEAR RESIDENT from Spanish and English, which will be pub- Dr. Johnson’s year-long residency at lished by Routledge in 2004. I also started the Center allowed him to pursue several 8 working on a new research project on bilin- goals. He prepared a manuscript, “Kinship, 2003-2004 Annual Report Resident Scholars
Civic Action, and Power in Nineteenth- theoretical principles of generative grammar.” Century Vannes” for publication in a Using her Winter 2004 sabbatical, Dr. Paesani Cambridge University Press volume. He also utilized her office in the Center almost daily, used his residency to complete the text of a and participated in Brown Bag talks and paper presented in Berlin in March 2004, and Working Groups presentations as well. She used the Center’s financial award for travel to made significant progress toward the that conference. Dr. Johnson’s third project completion of her manuscript. was a paper on masculinity, gender relationships and regional loyalties within the French-speaking Bretons in the 1800s, which HUMANITIES CENTER he subsequently presented at a conference in RESIDENT SCHOLARS Paris. Dr. Johnson also worked on a book 2003-2004 manuscript, Becoming Bourgeois: Class, Family, and Kinship in Vannes, 1650-1900. DANIEL MARCUS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Daniel Marcus COMMUNICATION FULL YEAR RESIDENT Dr. Marcus utilized the Center’s KATE PAESANI Resident Scholarship to pursue research on a ASSISTANT PROFESSOR project entitled Dollar Signs: The Media, the ROMANCE LANGUAGES Economy, and American Politics. Dr. Marcus writes in his proposal, “In what I foresee as a book-length project, I will examine media STEVEN STACK coverage of economic issues in American life PROFESSOR from 1980 to the present day. The support of CRIIMINAL JUSTICE the Center will assist me in completing two major parts of the project during the Left: Resident Scholar Kate Paesani in the Humanities forthcoming year. The interaction with other Center conference room. resident scholars will undoubtedly enrich my understanding of the work, given the interdisciplinary nature of the project, which Steven Stack addresses media, economics, history, and WINTER RESIDENT politics.” About his Winter 2004 residency at the Center, Dr. Stack reported, “I have been Kate Paesani analyzing the influence of religiosity on FULL YEAR RESIDENT attitudes towards deviant behavior in 36 During her 2003-2004 residency at the nations. Data refer to over 50,000 respondents Center, Dr. Paesani worked toward in the World Values Surveys. Religiosity can development and revision of her ongoing help to make secular society possible through research into the French passe supercompose discouraging deviation from the normative for her forthcoming book. “The seven chapters structure. My Humanities Center fellowship of my book project develop a semantic has assisted me in my research by providing a characterization of the temporal-aspectual most pleasant working environment. The meaning of passe supercompose sentences, provision of an office, in particular, has and a syntactic characterization of its tripartite protected me from distractions in my home verbal structure, all articulated within the department. Thus far I have analyzed 3 types 9 2003-2004 Annual Report Resident Scholars
of deviant behavior: suicide, tax fraud, and prostitution. A paper on suicide and religion was presented at the annual meetings of the American Association of Suicidology, Miami, FL, April 15-17, 2004. A second paper on attitudes towards tax fraud and religion will be presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social problems in HUMANITIES CENTER San Francisco, August 13-17, 2004. The third paper will be completed this summer. All RESIDENT SCHOLARS papers will be submitted to journals for 2003-2004 publication this summer.” Above: Steve Stack, who has held two Humanities Center resi- dencies, used the Center’s resources for his research on violent ANCA VLASOPOLOS crime, suicide, and their causes. PROFESSOR Anca Vlasopolos NGLISH E FULL YEAR RESIDENT Dr. Vlasopolos reports, “I expect to monetary award to travel to the National LISA VOLLENDORF have finished my book, now entitled A Women’s Library in London to further this ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Japanese Odysseus: A Heroic Journey in research. Writes Dr. Vollendorf, “I am deeply ROMANCE LANGUAGES Whose Wake Lay the Deaths of Whales and grateful to the Humanities Center for the Albatrosses, by the end of May, 2004. I cannot generosity and intellectual stimulation the DAVID WEINBERG imagine having been able to complete this Center has provided over the years.” manuscript without the Humanities Center PROFESSOR residence I had the fortune to hold for two HISTORY David Weinberg years. The quiet of the office, the up-to-date & FULL YEAR RESIDENT technology of a new computer that allowed DIRECTOR Dr. Weinberg’s residency in 2003- me not to waste time in slow web connections, 2004 enabled him to continue work on his COHN-HADDOW CENTER FOR the interaction with scholars from other fields JUDAIC STUDIES project on European Jewish reconstruction who asked pertinent questions about my after World War II which he began in the project, and the general feeling of intellectual previous year. Writes Dr. Weinberg, “Thanks excitement, and the welcome we as residents in part to the support of the Humanities have from the Director, the staff, and the other Center, I have had an opportunity to present members make the residence invaluable. I my findings at colloquia and conferences at don’t want to think of myself as undergoing Arizona State University, the YIVO Institute Pavlovian conditioning, but I do think my in New York, the Western Jewish Studies computer in my Humanities Center is in an Association in Portland, and Hebrew Union uncanny way magical. When I sit before it, I College in Cincinnati. I have also published write.” two essays drawn from my research – one in a scholarly journal, the other in a collection Lisa Vollendorf of essays.” Dr. Weinberg also reported that FALL RESIDENT two publishers have expressed interest in his Continuing her one year residency planned manuscript on which he worked which began in Winter 2003, Dr. Vollendorf during his 2003-2004 residency. began work on a new book project, Women and Intimacy in the Hispanic World: 1500- 10 1800. Dr. Vollendorf also utilized the Center’s 2003-2004 Annual Report Innovative Projects
This program continues to encourage fac- of research finding of an NIH-sponsored study that portrays eight women’s survival of ulty members from a variety of departments homelessness. The project documents first-per- to develop unique projects in the humani- son accounts of women surviving homelessness ties and the arts. For 2003-2004 the Cen- in late life, examines the dynamics and causal ter offered grants of up to $4000 and made experiences associated with the women’s eight awards, an increase of three over last homelessness, and explores how they view homelessness, their experiences with recovery, year. and factors that promote their healing. The purpose of Innovative Projects Exhibition on Imagery of Lynching: Dora awards is to promote and encourage new Apel (Art & Art History). Dr. Apel traveled to 2003-2004 AWARDEES ideas and projects in the humanities and the Minneapolis to hold discussions with represen- arts. The Center funds proposals from tatives of the Weisman Art Museum and col- leagues at the University of Minnesota on a pos- DORA APEL faculty that will chart new research or sible art exhibition addressing contemporary ra- Art & Art History artistic territory. These new projects may cial narratives rooted in lynching. Her upcom- CHRISTOPHER COLLINS be proposed by individual faculty or by ing book Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, Music White Women, and the Mob serves as a foun- collaborative teams, with preference given MARY COONEY to projects involving collaborative efforts dation for the exhibition. Opening the Curtain on Process Drama and Theater by two or more faculty. Following are the the Teaching of Language Arts: Gina DeBlase GINA DEBLASE projects funded in 2003-2004: (Education), and Mary Cooney (Theatre). The Education Global Poetics: A Reading and Lecture Se- power of process drama as a teaching tool grows ANNE DUGGAN ries: Barrett Watten, Johnathan Flatley , and out of the power it gives students: they learn to Romance Languages Carla Harryman (all of the English department). explore issues, alternative courses of action, and The project presented a series of lectures by spe- relationships among people. This pilot project JOHNATHAN FLATELY cialists on the literature, culture and theory of Mo- uses “process drama” to prepare youth to at- English dernity in an age of globalization to tend a Hilberry Theatre performance of MARK FERGUSON multidisciplinary audiences. The speakers were Macbeth, resulting in a significant increase in German & Slavic emerging innovative writers whose work is the relevance of classical theatre to these young DONALD HAASE grounded in their relation to transnational urban people. environments. Jazz & Conspiracy: America through Eu- German & Slavic Toward a Virtual Reconstruction of a 19th- ropean Eyes: Christopher Collins (Music), CARLA HARRYMAN Century Black Scholar’s Library: Michele M.L. Leibler (English), and Mark Ferguson English Ronnick (Classics). William Sanders (German). This project combines music, lit- CHRISTIAN KREIPKE Scarborough (1852-1926), the first African erature, German Studies and performances in Psychiatry American classicist of international renown, col- two different programs at Wayne State Univer- lected a famous library, but it has never been stud- sity and The Scarab Club. The project also in- M.L. LEIBLER ied. Born in slavery when most blacks had no vited internationally acclaimed scholar Brendt English access to books, he nonetheless craved learning. Ostendorf, Ludwig Maxmillian University’s MICHELE RONNICK This project seeks to reconstruct his cherished col- American Institute Founding Director, to Wayne Classics, Greek, Latin lection of approximately 2000 volumes. State to offer two innovative and very acces- ANCA VLASOPOLOS Creative Storytelling and the Urban Child: sible educational programs to faculty and stu- Pilot Program: Donald Haase (German) and dents. Professor Ostendorf will also make sev- English Anne Duggan (Romance). Based on the eral classroom visits to both American Studies OLIVIA WASHINGTON premise that cultural and personal narratives and German Studies classes while visiting the Nursing play a defining role in our lives, this project University in fall 2004. BARRETT WATTEN builds on the innovative model documented by Evanescence Held Fast: Christian Kreipke English Jack Zipes in Creative Storytelling: Building (Psychiatry), and Anca Vlasopolos (English). Community, Changing Lives to establish a This project is the production of a CD that com- storytelling program in collaboration with up- bines several of Dr. Vlasopolos’s poems with per-elementary Detroit schoolteachers. the music composed by Christian Kreipke spe- Telling My Story Project: Olivia Washing- cifically for these poems. The CD also includes ton (Nursing). The “Telling My Story Project” poems by two other poets, giving a total of 24 employs innovative strategies to present results tracks. 11 2003 -2004 Annual Report Edward M. Wise Dissertation Fellowship
$16,000 FELLOWSHIP AWARDS MADE The Humanities Center offers $12,000 completion of her work, Semantic Drift and in support each year to one student in Complex Organizations: Appropriation and the final stages of writing his or her Translation of Text in Engineering Networks. dissertation through the Edward M. Stephanie Hall-Sturgis, a doctoral Wise Dissertation Fellowship. The student in English received an award of $1000 for her thesis, Does Community- Fellow may also be eligible for tuition Based Pedagogy Foster Critical EDWARD M. WISE reimbursement for up to 10 non-audit Consciousness? FELLOWSHIP AWARDS dissertation credits. In addition, the Jennifer Tatsak-Danyliw, a candidate 2003-2004 Center may offer additional awards, for a PhD in Communication, was also each worth $1,000 to deserving students awarded $1000 for her work, The ‘Great FELLOW who apply for the fellowship. This year Good Place’ for Some People: A Rhetorical Susan Lynne the Edward Wise Estate generously Criticism of Starbucks Coffee Company. Beckwith agreed to support the fellowship with The awardees were honored at a luncheon English an annual grant of $6000. on April 2, 2004, during which they each For the 2003-2004 academic year the made a short presentation summarizing their dissertation project. AWARDEES Center received many excellent Carolyn Psenka applications. From these, the following Anthropology awards were made: Susan Lynne Beckwith, a PhD candidate in English, was named the Stephanie Hall- Edward M. Wise Fellow for her thesis Sturgis titled Fractured Voices, Failing Bodies, English and the Art of Narratives: Tracing the Self and Other in Narrative Form and Function Jennifer Tatsak- from the Victorians to Today. Danyliw Carolyn Psenka of the Anthropology Communication department was awarded $1000 to support
Right: Edward M. Wise Fellow for Above: Edward M. Wise 2003-2004, Susan Lynne Beckwith (right), receives a ABOUT THE AWARD certificate from The Edward M. Wise Dissertation Fel- Sandra VanBurkleo, lowship for Doctoral Students in the Humani- Professor of ties and Arts is named for the late Edward M. History and widow Wise, who was a Wayne State University Pro- of Edward M. Wise. (left). fessor of Law and Humanities Center Fellow in 1997-1998 and 2000-2001 and a Humani- ties Center Resident Scholar in 1999-2000. 12 Dr. Wise passed away in October 2000. 2003-2004 Annual Report Brown Bag Colloquium Series
Since the inception of the weekly Brown Bag Collo- reasoning; and, second, that the consequent contingency of quium Series, literally hundreds of Wayne State hu- normative projects places severe constraints on what social manities and arts faculty and students have partici- and political theory can meaningfully contribute in any pated either as speakers or as members of the audi- particular era. I develop these claims in a discussion of how ence. Each new year brings an increase in the num- we came to the condition that many identify as “late” or “post” modernity. In place of the conventional story that focuses on ber of faculty volunteering to present talks. As a re- the intellectual transformations wrought by the Enlightenment, sult, the Center now regularly hosts talks on both I take up Charles Taylor’s dialectical account that emphasizes Tuesdays and Thursdays. Brown Bag talks are open the reflexive relation between the social developments of to the public. See page 31 for a list of talks already modernity and the concomitant changes in social scheduled for next year’s series. Abstracts of pre- understandings. I extend this approach to consider the nature sentations from the 2003-2004 year follow. and import of contemporary practices and conditions of late modernity, their relation to the “postmodern,” and their implications for the spread of democracy under conditions of globalization. SEPTEMBER 9 - MARGARET WINTERS, ASSOCIATE PROVOST & PROFES- SOR, ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES, AND G EOFF NATHAN, SEPTEMBER 23 - CHARLES STIVALE, PROFESSOR, ROMANCE LANGUAGES ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ENGLISH, “HOW MANY OUNCES IN A STANLEY & LITERATURES; “ZYDECO WILL NEVER DIE: AFFIRMATION AND CUP? ON BUTTER, SPORTS TROPHIES, AND CATEGORIZATION” IDENTITY IN LOUISIANA NOUVEAU ZYDECO” A major point of controversy among linguists since fairly early All music, to a greater or lesser extent, is the result of the in the twentieth century is whether structure or meaning should intersection and overlapping of prior influences, themes, and be the basis of language analysis. Indeed, beliefs about the even forms of instrumentation. In my research on Louisiana very nature of language crucially depend on one’s stand on Cajun music and the Afro-Caribbean musical form known as this issue. For those who, like us, choose semantics as the zydeco, I have been impressed by the complex forms of mixing, point of departure, there is an obligation to be explicit about blending, and fusion, a kind of hybridity that provides the the nature of meaning and how it functions, both in Language source and the strength especially in the zydeco musical in the abstract and in individual languages. Our presentation, tradition. In this presentation, I introduce very briefly zydeco accordingly, is on Cognitive Grammar, a theory of language with an excerpt from the king of zydeco, Clifton Chenier, and and meaning that crucially makes use of the psychological then provide a number of excerpted examples that show the notions of prototypes and mental categories. We will illustrate breadth of borrowings by the 1990s generation of zydeco this theory by discussing the meaning of individual words, musicians. This younger, so-called “nouveau zydeco” group grammatical markers (e.g. ‘plural’), and full constructions. – notably, Keith Frank, Chris Ardoin, Sean Ardoin, Lil’ Brian We will also address how phonemes (the basic sounds of a Terry and the Zydeco Travelers, among many others — have language which are not meaningful in their own right but borrowed unapologetically from folk, hip-hop, rap, reggae, contribute to the communication of meaning) can also be do-wop, and Motown, and have deliberately incited reaction understood within Cognitive Grammar. Finally, we will discuss from neo-traditionalists. Although this talk can only be a some aspects of language change as semantically based and rudimentary outline, I hope to provide sufficient examples (as analyzable using the same tools as synchronic (descriptive) well as a selected discography as a handout) to emphasize linguistics. some crucial paradoxes in contemporaryzydeco.
SEPTEMBER 16 - STEVE WINTER, PROFESSOR, CENTER FOR LEGAL SEPTEMBER 30 - A VIS VIDAL, CHAIR, GEOGRAPHY AND URBAN STUDIES, “WHAT MAKES MODERNITY LATE?” PLANNING, “SOCIAL CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT” The aim of this paper is to tease out the philosophical and Robert Putnam’s research on social capital and William Julius socio-political implications of the claim that human knowledge Wilson’s research on the social structure of poor African is contingent. Philosophically, this will entail a reconfiguration American neighborhoods have sparked lively debate about the of our understanding of the concepts of foundations, relationship between social ties and economicwell-being. Prof. contingency, relativism, nihilism and of the relationships among Vidal argues that community development – broadly them. Socio-politically, this will imply, first, that that there is understood as the strengthening of assets in poor communities a constitutive relation between social practice and normative 13 2003-2004 Annual Report Brown Bag Colloquium Series
– properly includes attention to building social capital. In this colloquium, she will examine different types of social capital and how they can benefit poor individuals and communities. Then, drawing on material in Building Community Capacity (written with Rob Chaskin, Prudence Brown and Sudhir Venkatesh), she will discuss four approaches that community development can take to build social capital in poor communities.
OCTOBER 7 - CANNON SCHMITT, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, EDITOR OF CRITICISM, “VICTORIAN BEETLEMANIA” The Victorians were inordinately fond of beetles. With the help Left: Provost Nancy Barrett’ (center, at head of table) presents “The Politics of of such publications as J. F. A. Stephens’s Manual of British Gender.” This talk attracted a large audience and made for a lively discussion Coleoptera, they gathered and identified beetles at home and among the attendees. abroad; in a less technical register, they arranged beetles in pleasing designs in display cases and wore clothing patterned OCTOBER 9 - A BBY BUTLER, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, MUSIC EDUCA- after beetles or studded with the carapaces of dead beetles. In TION, “REMEMBERING, PRESERVING, DISCOVERING… THE LEGACY OF this paper, I resist the temptation to dismiss these pursuits as THE BRAZEAL DENNARD CHORALE” merely faddish. That they can appear to us so alien and The year 2002 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Brazeal frivolous dramatizes the necessity of retheorizing what it meant Dennard Chorale. Dedicated to the preservation and promo- to know the natural world in the nineteenth century. To begin tion of African American choral music, this Detroit based en- that retheorization, I attend to beetlemania as it manifests itself semble has inspired audiences throughout the United States in the work of two Victorian scientists: Charles Darwin and and around the world. Through their moving performances, Alfred Russel Wallace. Close scrutiny of passages dealing with numerous recordings, and conference appearances, the Cho- beetles central to Darwin’s Autobiography (1887) and rale has worked hard to further our understandingand appre- Wallace’s My Life (1905) reveals something like a coleopterous ciation of the African-American spiritual. Brazeal Dennard epistemology: a way of knowing nature that exceeds the bounds founded the Chorale in 1972 to provide an opportunity for of the merely positivistic and classificatory. Beetles in these highly trained African American singers to perform quality texts are not objects of curiosity so much as organisms whose music within a variety of professional venues. In order to ex- alluring alterity—for what could be more unlike humans?— tend these performance opportunities to other African Ameri- occasions paroxysms of desire and bouts of miserly cans within the Detroit area, the Chorale organized the Brazeal acquisitiveness. Darwin’s and Wallace’s treatment of beetles, Dennard Community Chorus and the Brazeal Dennard Youth and of the whole inhuman array of crabs, snakes, spiders, flies, Chorale. The Community Chorus offers opportunities for ama- and slugs for which beetles stand by way of synecdoche, teur singers to develop their vocal skills and perform in a va- enables a new way of thinking about the consequences of riety of settings while the Youth Chorale provides young sing- evolutionary theory for how the Victorians went about knowing ers between the ages of 13 and 22 with the chance to study nature and knowing themselves. Those consequences are and perform music of the highest caliber. Using historical and usually analyzed in terms of the transformation of what had qualitative methodologies, this paper will present a history of been a relation of similitude (between apes and humans, say) the Brazeal Dennard Chorale, documenting the contributions into one of kinship. But at once more distressing and more of the ensemble and the founding director, Dr. Dennard, to- obviously demanding of less straightforward models of relation ward the advancement of African American choral music. In than self/other was the transformation of what had been addition, this paper seeks to explore the role of the Chorale in radically unlike humans (beetles, say) into kin. shaping both a cultural and musical identity for African Ameri- cans as well as their perceptions of that identity. 14 2003-2004 Annual Report Brown Bag Colloquium Series
OCTOBER 14 - S ANDRA VANBURKLEO, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, HISTORY, “BREAKING PROMISES: THE STRANGE CASE OF LEGISLATIVE Left: Sheila Lloyd, Assistant DIVORCE IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA” Professor of English, listens Over the course of the 19th century, roughly from 1819 into to a question from the the 1890s, public officials in the states and territories gradu- audience at the end of her presentation which ally adopted judicial divorce in the place of the more tradi- discussed the work of tional (and English) legislative or parliamentary divorce. His- W.E.B. DuBois and torians have not been clear as to when and why this transition Chinua Achebe. occurred, ascribing it — when it is mentioned at all — to such amorphous and seemingly competing forces as “democratiza- tion,” “progressive reform,” “legalization,” “juridification,” “bureaucratization,” “modernization,” or “judicial patriarchy.” A sufficient, if not complete, explanation for this change can offer a preliminary collection of features that can be used to be found in constitutional pressures, illustrated dramatically characterize topics in different languages. From this point of in acentury-long conversation among state and territorial jus- view, the long term research agenda is to examine in detail tices about the constitutionality of legislative divorce in the how languages encode non-focal elements, isolate the relevant American republic. The resulting change seems to move against features, find out how they combine, and ultimately establish the prevailing wind — from “contract” to “status” — in an a typology of topics. age supposedly characterized by a shift from “status” rela- tionships to black-letter contractualism. To make matters even OCTOBER 28 - J ACK KAY, ASSOCIATE PROVOST FOR ASSESSMENT AND more puzzling, many women’s rights advocates pointed dis- RETENTION AND PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION, “THE MUSIC OF approvingly to such developments, characterizing them as part CONTEMPORARY HATE GROUPS: CYBERSPACE AND THE LANGUAGE OF and parcel of a conservative reaction against marital reform, OPPRESSION” and noting that the parallel rearticulation and mystification of In this excursion to the ugly side of the World Wide Web, the marital contract (supposedly mandated by the transition to listeners are invited to interrogate the lyrics and sounds of judicial divorce) made it much more difficult for women, par- such bands as Angry Aryans, Aggravated Assault, Blue Eyed ticularly impoverished or illiterate women, to divorce abusive Devils, Rahowa, Extreme Hatred, Berserkr and Extreme men. Although VanBurkleo will be working from well over a Hatred; groups recording on such labels as Resistance Records, hundred judicial rulings and other, similarly turgid texts, she Panzerfaust, Tri-State Terror and Imperium. The multi-media promises not to read all of them to her audience. presentation focuses on the music used by white supremacist groups to recruit members and articulate an ideology of OCTOBER 21 - EUGENIA CASIELLES, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ROMANCE othering, separatism, and racialism. Musical genres including LANGUAGES & LITERATURE, “TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF TOPICS” Reich’n’roll, White Power Rock, Skinhead, Oi!, National It has recently been pointed out that linguists appear to have Socialist Black Metal, Facist Experimental, and Racist Country given up on a definition of “topic”. Although several different and Folk are presented and discussed. The use of music on notions can be found in the literature, none of them allow us to “Cyberhate” web sites is also be explored. Concepts such as characterize what are viewed as topical elements in different communication as culture and the language of oppression and languages and identify the topic of a sentence in a particular liberation are used to describe, interpret, evaluate, and, perhaps, structure. In this talk I will suggest that the reason why no understand the pathology of hate. Ultimately, the relationship appropriate definition of topic has been found is because this of humanistic inquiry and social responsibility is addressed. unitary entity we have been trying to define does not exist. November 4 - Robert Thomas, Dean, College of Science & That is, due to the variety of phonological, morphological, Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts, “’Da Ja Ting’ (Big lexical and/or syntactic ways in which languages can mark, if Family) - A Personal Perspective on Two Decades of Scientific at all, topical elements, any specific definition of topic based and Cultural Exchanges With Friends From China.” This talk on a particular language will not be adequate to characterize discussed the following in the context of Dr. Thomas’ topical elements in a different language. Thus, I propose associations, scientific and cultural, with many friends from abandoning the traditional view of topic in favor of a feature- China. “Reverse Brain Drain”: Those who study and perhaps based typology of topics. I suggest that particular combinations work abroad for a time, but ultimately return to their home of certain phonological, syntactic, semantic and discourse features will give us different types of topical elements, and I 15 2003-2004 Annual Report Brown Bag Colloquium Series
countries. Is the United States “giving away the store” – to have been anticipated, in its major features, in the earlier period, allowing the transfer abroad of its technology and modernism is thereby reinstated—as a historically contingent, manufacturing base? Are “we putting our money and our best rather than universalist, model for literary and cultural value. talent into training our economic competitors? Those who have This paper questions the nature of modernist form after the returned have opened up economic opportunities for the United challenge of the postmodern, and seeks to expand the formal criteria States through Science & Technology partnerships and have of the modernist work to account for a broader range of cultural benefited the U.S. diplomatically by allowing the U.S. to agency. I will also touch on the nature of avant-garde paradox demonstrateINSERT its leadership PHOTO inHERE enabling developing countries to (from The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural achieve their national scientific capabilities. Poetics; Wesleyan University Press, 2003). We will look at a series of modernist and postmodern literary examples—to defend the cultural importance of modernism, but also to test its limits. NOVEMBER 11 - JERRY CLEVELAND, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, THEATRE, “WITTICISM AND THE DEVOTEE OF THE ANTILLES AS SEEN BY DEREK WALCOTT: THE NOVEMBER 25 - T AMARA BRAY, MUSEUM DIRECTOR, ASSOCIATE BLISS OF IGNORANCE OR LIVING IN ACCORD WITH THE NATURE OF THINGS” PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY, “IMPERIAL INCA INCONOGRAPHY: THE ART Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for literature, Derek Walcott OF EMPIRE IN THE PRECOLUMBIAN ANDES” is a professor of English and Playwriting at Boston University Scholars of pre-Columbian art have long viewed the imperial and an internationally known poet and playwright. While the style of the Inca state as formulaic and homogenous. This style and imagery for most of Derek Walcott’s poetry and plays general attitude has discouraged serious interest in the imagery are largely influenced by the Eurocentric, and while he fully of the Inca empire. A closer look at the beautiful polychrome embraces the English language as his primary mode of ceramic tradition associated with the Inca, however, reveals expression, his themes reflect an affinity towards Afro- considerable variability in details of manufacture, dimensions, Caribbean life. In the case of “Dream on Money Mountain” decorative elements, and design structure. In this paper, I the topic centers on the Afro-Caribbean and their resiliency discuss how the imagery expressed in the corporate art of the under British colonial rule. The humor in this play is derived Inca aided in the construction of state authority and informs from signification and the African trickster element. The play upon the nature of rulership. In analyzing the imagery of the of Afro centric and the voice of the imperialists is absent except Inca state as it relates to the processes of imperial expansion for the mumbo-jumbo of Corporal Lestrade. The silent, female and political legitimization, the study highlights the relationship Apparition dressed in white serves as metaphor and symbol between art, ideology, and politics. for the imperialists’ cultural and religious influences in the islands. The subject of this discourse will be examined using DECEMBER 2 - NORAH DUNCAN IVIV, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, MUSIC, those elements contained within the play-language, mime, dance “NEW TRENDS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUAL MUSIC” and music. This lecture anticipated the Bonstelle Theatre’s From slave songs to contemporary gospel music, African production of Walcott’s “Dream on Monkey Mountain” in American Church music has long been a source of strength January 2004. and encouragement for Black Americans. This lecture will discuss the current state of music in African American churches
NOVEMBER 18 - BARRETT WATTEN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ENGLISH, by taking both a theoretical and reflective look at important “MODERNISM AT THE CROSSROADS” writings on this topic. Through an assessment of resources What’s wrong with this picture? Bambi has two heads. A fish provided by traditional African American denominations, we perched on a see-saw holds a kite string that arcs upward toward will look at what has been and is being done now to preserve the sky—but there is no kite. The little girl running toward her this rich musical heritage, which will forge a path for the mother has an X on her sleeve. The sky over the playground is, in continual growth and development of African American church fact, black. Modernism and postmodernism walk hand in hand music. under the weeping willow tree. The new modernist studies was brought about by a sustained critique of the certainties of modernist DECEMBER 9 - MATTHEW SEEGER, PROFESSOR, COMMUNICATION, authorship, form, and, finally, agency. But in the process of opening “LESSONS FROM ENRON, ANTHRAX AND 9/11: CRISIS AND RISK COMMU- up modernism and showing its constitutive lack, modernism was NICATION IN A THREATENING WORLD” reinvented—as a register of the aporia of the modern, rather than (Co-sponsored by WSU’s Institute for Information Technol- a defense against it. If the negativity of the postmodern turns out ogy and Culture). From the recognition of risk, to the co- ordination of response, and explanations of cause, commu- 16 nication is recognized as an essential feature of crisis man- 2003-2004 Annual Report Brown Bag Colloquium Series
agement and disaster response. Mathew Seeger from the De- JANUARY 20 - MICHAEL GIORDANO, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ROMANCE partment of Communication will discuss the role of com- LANGUAGES & LITERATURE, “THE VISIBLE AND THE SAYABLE IN SE- munication in such events as the recent SARS outbreak, 9/ LECTED VISUAL MEDIA OF THE RENAISSANCE” 11, the Enron collapse and the anthrax attack. In addition The title of this paper is based on an exploration of the French Seeger will describe the emergence of theory in the study of Renaissance’s penchant for pitting the sayable against the crisis communication as described in his book, Communi- visible in its revitalization of classical humanism. In the cation and Organizational crisis (2003 Quorum), and pro- disputes about whether thought was primarily visual or verbal, vide an overview of two of his recent research projects, or inextricably mixed, Renaissance writers found it necessary Media Use, Information Seeking and Reported Needs in the Post 9/11 Context (2002) and Crisis and Emergency Risk to verbalize the significance of what could be visualized, Communication as an Integrative Model (in press) prepared because they felt that one or the other medium alone was with the Centers for Disease Control Crisis Communica- incommensurate with the demand for adequate expression. This tion Division. skepticism at the heart of complex cultural transvaluations could be obscured by the unquenchable enthusiasm for renewal DECEMBER 11 - R OBERT HOLLEY, PROFESSOR, LIBRARY & INFORMATION and rejuvenation in such areas as the Classics (Heraclitus, SCIENCE PROGRAM, “THE ETHICS OF SCHOLARLY RESEARCH AND THE Epicharmus, Pythagoras), religious reform (Marguerite de INTERNET” Navarre), astronomy (Copernicus), medicine (Paracelsus), The Internet is challenging long held ethical conventions in descriptive anatomy (Vesalius), and pedagogy (Pierre de la the area of scholarly research. Bob Holley will recount how Ramée). But this joyful reawakening to human potential tended his research for an article in the second edition of Library and to de-emphasize smoldering tensions that would later flare up Information Science Encyclopedia led him to reflect on the in religious disputes and the fulgurations of civil war. methodological differences between this article that made heavy use of Internet resources and a similar one written a decade JANUARY 27 - DANA SEITLER, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ENGLISH, ago when print was the only option. He will articulate his “HIRSUTICAL EXCHANGE: APE, GORILLA, WOLF, MAN” concerns that started from using an internal document that, It has been well-noted that Freud persistently turned to human though available on the Web, seemed more private and internal prehistory as the ground and means of his theories, especially than officially published sources. His comments will focus on but not only in works like Civilization and its Discontents and whether availability on the Web is “publication” as accepted Totem and Taboo. Freud’s over-riding interest in these works in the print world and whether internal documents can be used concerns not only what the individual may tell us about human in scholarly research where the document’s author would have prehistory, but also what human prehistory may tell us about been hesitant to speak on the topic in a journal article or our modern selves. This talk takes up Freud’s case studies professional newsletter. To help continue his research in this “The Wolf Man” and “The Rat Man” to further explore area, Bob hopes to have many questions and comments from questions about the way in which the persistent figure of the the audience. animal, operating as a sign of evolutionary precedent, conventionalizes human sexual drives as atavistic and the JANUARY 13 - CARLA HARRYMAN, SENIOR LECTURER, ENGLISH, “RULES desiring subject as a “savage” subject. When Freud compared AND RESTRAINTS IN WOMEN’S INNOVATIVE WRITING: KATHY ACKER, the content of the unconscious to “a primitive population in CONCEPTUALISM, AND THE INTERGENRE” the mental kingdom,” he characterized the psyche as a residue “Acker Unformed” is a literary essay that focuses on several of the past and figured the hermeneutics by which human sexual of the later works by the postmodern novelist Kathy Acker. development could be comprehended. I argue that the trope of Central to my consideration is Acker’s deregulation of the space the animal in these case studies illuminates a particular history of the novel through her presentations of childhood. In order in which the archaic, the evolutionary past, is deployed to orient to elucidate, or demonstrate, the relationship between the the unfamiliar terrain of sexual modernity. Sexuality itself is difficult narrative spaces of Acker’s prose and her stagings of deployed as an archaic and “primitive” category or practice childhood, I turn to several concepts, including “a-subjectivity” as a relay through which knowledge of human being can be and “unedifying architecture,” discussed in Denis Hollier’s both established and deferred. Freud’s animals, then, not only well-known interpretation of George Bataille, Against complicate the nature of sexual identification, but supplement Architecture. While the essay predominantly engages Acker’s what remains inarticulable about sexual desire. work, it also represents a conversation, between my own artistic practice and Acker’s, in regards to the deregulation and 17 redistribution of prose narrative and childhood. 2003-2004 Annual Report Brown Bag Colloquium Series
FEBRUARY 3 - MICHELE RONNICK, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, CLASSICS, FEBRUARY 10 - GARY SANDS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF URBAN, LABOR “CLASSICAL ELEMENTS IN THE WRITING OF PERCIVAL EVERETT, CONTEM- AND METROPOLITAN AFFAIRS, “WELL MADE PLACES? RESIDENT SATISFACTION IN PORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVELIST” NEW URBANIST SUBURBS” Fiction and poetry of every sort looking back to classical The principles of New Urbanism advocate for a form of urban antiquity for settings, plots or characters is nothing new in development that incorporates higher densities, mixed uses and a Western literature. But an attempt to analyze the African pedestrian (rather than an auto) oriented public realm. The New American contribution to this endeavor is. Classical elements Urbanist paradigm is quite distinct from the typical suburban are found in works of poetry written by 18th, 19th and 20th pattern of development. This research examines the relative level century authors ranging from Phillis Wheatley and Pauline of satisfaction of the residents in two New Urbanist communities Hopkins to Countee Cullen, Robert Hayden, Derek Walcott with those characteristics of their neighborhoods that set them and Rita Dove. Here, in an effort open the question of black apart from the surrounding areas. There appears to be a good classicism up to wider examination, is a survey of some African deal of support for most elements of the New Urbanist model, American novelists who published works in the last hundred years. although there may be an element of self-selection involved. We’ll start with W.E.B. Du Bois’ Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) and move to the experimental novelist Percival Everett. Two of Everett’s novels, For Her Dark Skin (1990) and Frenzy (1997), FEBRUARY 12 - S HEILA LLOYD, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ENGLISH, use themes from classical mythology. “LETTING DADDY DO IT TO/FOR YOU AND OTHER OBSCENITIES OF BLACK POLITICAL CULTURES IN THE WRITINGS OF CHINUA ACHEBE AND U OIS FEBUARY 5- JULIE KLEIN, PROFESSOR, (HUMANITIES) INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, W. E. B. D B ” CULMA “INTERDISCIPLINARITY, HUMANITIES, AND CULTURE: THE CHANGING My questions for this presentation are: why is group identity AMERICAN ACADEMY” still at the forefront of U.S. multicultural thinking and criticism, Three major ideas – interdisciplinarity, humanities, and culture and what might multicultural critics gain from examining other — converge with particular force in the current term “American literary formations in which the question of identity is more cultural studies.” Although the term is usually linked with American marginalized or at least more vexatious? Looking at one studies, the study of American culture is not confined author’s representations of decolonization and nationalisms, to a single field. It is a broad-based set of interests located within my claim is that the process by which group identity is and across disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. When disciplines established and maintained may also result in the undoing of became professionalized specialties in the late nineteenth and early the political aims associated with that group. This is perhaps twentieth centuries, the “culture camp” of humanities asserted a even more the case when the enjoyment purportedly derived competing vision, upholding a generalist model of knowledge and from an identitarian logic requires that some fixed point—be culture with deep historical roots. The generalist model found a it linguistic, social, or ideological—serve to signify the new home in the general education movement that arose in the uniformity of group identity. Oddly, the manifestation or early twentieth century. From the beginning, however, competing narrativization of this uniform identity is only possible when notions of interdisciplinarity were apparent and, in the latter half some obscene display of power has not been rendered visible. of the century, a plurality of developments fostered new This particular play of presence and absence is one that the interdisciplinary approaches. Their history extends from the Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe textualizes to great importation of European theories to today’s field of cultural studies. effect in his early novels. In these works, structural excesses This talk will give an overview of the implications for current of state power signal an exploitative disregard for theory, practice, and institutional forms of interdisciplinarity in “unanimism”— and this excess is metaphorically rendered three disciplines (literary studies, art history, and music) and three through paternal figures that cannot be restricted to the single fields that center on American cultural experience (American function of securing group feeling. That unanimism itself might studies, African-American studies, and women’s studies). prove disabling, through its promotion of passive identification with predetermined concepts, is something that Achebe queries in novel after novel. The disidentifications practiced by many of his protagonists, as they blindly move about in the symbolic spaces represented in the early novels, might be instructive when we find that “daddy” keeps doing it for and to us. 18 2003-2004 Annual Report Brown Bag Colloquium Series
America. (Musical examples will be played/viewed.) Professor Left: Steve Winter, Tini has been on the WSU faculty for over 28 years, and is in Director of the his 12th year as Department Chair. Tini is also Past-President Center for Legal of the International Association for Jazz Education, with 9000 Studies, asked his audience to members throughout 38 countries. In 1992 while IAJE consider, “What President, Professor Tini founded the International Music Makes Modernity Relief Effort for South Africa in Johannesburg. He has taken Late?” five voluntary trips presenting masterclasses, concerts and offering donated music, instruments and textbooks to impoverished schools throughout South Africa. Professor Tini will briefly discuss his global concert tours as a pianist/guest conductor, and as Conductor of the WSU Concert Chorale, FEBRUARY 17 - BETH BATES, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, AFRICANA WSU Jazztet and Vocal Jazz Ensemble international tours. STUDIES, “A TALE OF TWO CITIES: BLACK WORKERS CHALLENGE Tini is also Director of Choral Activities and Co-Founder of PATERNALISM IN DETROIT AND CHICAGO, 1920’S - 1930’S” In the early part of the Twentieth Century, African American the Jazz Studies Division at Wayne State University. workers in two cities – Chicago and Detroit — led the challenge that eventually overthrew the paternalistic labor relations of FEBRUARY 26 - DORA APEL, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ART & ART HISTORY, “ANTI- leading employers and ushered in an era of growing support LYNCHING IMAGES: STRATEGIES OF REPRESENTATION AND THE PROBLEM OF THE ABJECT” In contrast with lynching photographs that became the benchmark for organized labor. Local branches of the NAACP eventually for the representation of racial violence and the departure point embraced and supported labor unions. By World War II, both for antilynching art, antilynching artworks intwo exhibitions of Chicago and Detroit had leading chapters of the National the 1930s demonstrate that similar imagery could be mobilized Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. and aesthetically modulated for radically different political ends. Yet in the early thirties these NAACP locals had been dismissed But this raises someimportant questions. How did antilynching as irrelevant by the black majority because they were perceived artists contend with the problem of representing lynching, based as high-brow organizations controlled largely by white as it was on inherent forms of sadistic voyeurism, without patronage. What brought about this dramatic change in the unwittingly recreating a position of mastery and control for the way these chapters were perceived by the larger local viewer of abject and victimized black bodies? How did artists communities? This paper uses the local NAACP chapters in produce antilynching images that avoided the effects of souvenir the two cities as windows for examining the shift in power postcards meant to glorify lynching and reaffirm white supremacy? relations within the black communities of Detroit and Chicago This talk will examine some of the disparate strategies of and argues that black workers’ challenge to paternalism set representation for antilynching imagery and their ideological the tone for revising the approach and agenda of the NAACP. effects. The paper suggests that overturning the politics of patronage which had defined labor relations for black workers employed MARCH 2 - STUART HENRY, PROFESSOR & CHAIR, INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, by the Pullman Company in Chicago and the Ford Motor CULMA, “CRIME AS A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT: PERSONAL ROLES IN THE Company in Detroit unleashed challenges that focused on CREATION OF CRIME” broadening the agenda of the NAACP to include the interests Traditional approaches to criminological theory often take a of black workers. reductionist approach in which the cause or multiple causes of crime are identified and criminal justice policy is developed to FEBRUARY 24 - D ENNIS TINI, PROFESSOR & CHAIR, MUSIC, “DENNIS prevent and control its occurrence. In 1991, my colleague, Dragan TINI: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC” Milovanovic and I embarked on a radical new postmodernist Dennis J.Tini, Professor of Music and Chair of the Department inspired approach to thinking about crime which we call of Music, will overview the creative/artistic process involved “Constitutive Criminology.” We describe this approach, which with his newly-released CD album The Eyes of Youth. Many has resulted in two books and numerous articles through 2003, as of the compositions featured on this Dennis Tini Quartet-Trio- “a broad sweeping, wide-ranging holistic perspective on crime, Quintet CD were composed in the Swiss Alps, and have been criminals and criminal justice. . . whose objective is to help build performed throughout Europe, South Africa, and South a less harmful society.” The core of the constitutive argument is 19 2003-2004 Annual Report Brown Bag Colloquium Series
that crime and its control cannot be separated from the totality of the structural and cultural contexts in which it is produced, nor from human agents’ active production of these contexts, and through them, crime itself. Constitutive criminology rejects the argument of traditional criminology that crime and “criminals” can be separated from that total coproductive process and analyzed and corrected apart from it. Crime is an integral part of the total production of society, and insofar as societies are interconnected through globalization processes, crime is also a global production. It is a coproduced outcome of humans and the social and organizational structures that people develop and endlessly (re)build. Therefore, criminological analysis of crime must relate crime to the total social, and ultimately, global picture, rather than to any single part of it. This is not an easy task. In this talk, I will outline the theory and discuss the implications of the Above: Jose Cuello (at right), History, discusses concepts of race in the New World, before a full audience. observation that we all have a role in the production of crime.
MARCH 25 - SUSAN WIDAWSKI, LECTURER, CLOTHING DESIGN, ART AND ART MARCH 23 - JEAN ANDRUSKI, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH- HISTORY, “IDENTITY AND THE USE OF CLOTHING IN DISPLACED PERSONS CAMPS IN LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY, EUGENIA CASIELLES, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ROMANCE AUSTRIA AFTER WW II” LANGUAGES & LITERATURES AND GEOFFREY NATHAN, ENGLISH, “THE NATURE OF Many factors influence clothing acquisition and use. Personal BILINGUAL FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION” characteristics such as age, gender, economic status and values The investigation of the concomitant acquisition of two languages as well as social environment support individual choice and from birth is a research priority in language acquisition studies consumption. Under normal and stable living conditions these for several reasons: a) our ever more globally-oriented world, factors can reflect the importance of clothing in our everyday where bilingualism is the norm rather than the exception; b) the lives. However, if a major event such as war, overturns the order fact that bilingual children are ideal subjects for cross-linguistic of life, would these factors continue to influence clothing studies, since with them we can control otherwise interfering practices?My research examines how clothing was used to sustain factors such as cognitive development, personality, cultural identity and culture in two German and Austrian Displaced differences, etc.; and c) the new research questions that bilingual Persons Camps after World War II. This presentation will outline acquisition offers, namely, to what extent the bilingual’s two how the study was conducted and the results from the data languages are differentiated and to what degree bilingual collected. Additionally, original “in-camp” photographs will be acquisition parallels monolingual acquisition. Although earlier examined. studies claimed that children acquiring two first languages start with one system and that their language acquisition differs MARCH 30 - JOSE CUELLO, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, HISTORY, “IS THERE AN significantly from monolingual acquisition, recent research has UNDERLYING COMMON STRUCTURE TO RACIALIZED SOCIETIES IN THE AMERICAS?” rejected this single-system hypothesis and suggests that bilingual The hypothesis I put forth for your consideration, comment and children are able to differentiate between the two languages from debate is that racialized societies across the Americas do indeed early on. However, this two-system hypothesis still needs to be share a common substructure despite the tremendous variety of refined in order to explain the precise nature of the development conditions in which they exist or have existed. Beneath their of the two systems. Most investigations have been restricted to ecological and cultural variations, they share common purposes, one domain: either the acquisition of sounds, or words, or the ideologies, principles of organization and operation, systems and morphosyntactic features of each language. In this talk, we suggest mechanisms of enforcement, along with social stereotypes and that what is needed is a multidisciplinary approach, that is, a roles. Racism or racialization can be seen as an operational study that takes into account several domains and their interaction. principle and system that interacts with the other principles and From this perspective, our research project will start by systems of social organization: gender, age, cultural identity, investigating prosody, the earliest linguistic feature monolingual economic status, and political position. All social identities are, infants are known to be able to discriminate and the master therefore, racialized (coded by skin color and defined by collective interface, which is influenced by virtually all levels of linguistic stereotypes) and play a major role in organizing human relations structure, from phonetics, to syntax, to pragmatics. at all levels of public and private interaction. I will draw on my 20 research on colonial Mexico and my experiences in the United 2003-2004 Annual Report Brown Bag Colloquium Series
States to draw some comparisons in support of the hypothesis APRIL 15 - STEVEN ILMER, ASSOCIATE DEAN, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, “OUTCOMES that common patterns are at work. I invite your active FROM UNIVERSITY AND K-12 SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS IN ATLANTA, HOUSTON, KANSAS CITY, ST. LOUIS AND MILWAUKEE: AN INITIATIVE SPONSORED BY THE BY THE U.S participation. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE GREAT CITIES’ UNIVERSITIES” The formation of partnerships between K12 schools, universities, APRIL 6- MEL ROSAS, PROFESSOR, ART & ART HISTORY, “MAGIC REALISM AND and community agencies has played a major role in implementing CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN PAINTING” K12 urban school reforms. Partnerships intended to address The term “Magic Realism” in present-day conversation, has nearly teacher preparation needs among urban schools have similarly become synonymous with “surrealism” in the minds of its users. assumed increased significance in recent years. What are some of the personal experiences shared among partners attempting to However, though sharing similarities, these two movements address urban teacher preparation needs? What is the impact of possess their distinctive attributes. From 1924 to 1945, a tight these experiences upon improving urban teacher preparation? To group of artists constituted the highly political movement of learn more about the effects of partnership experiences upon surrealism. They shared in Freudian ideas based in sex, dreams, preparing urban teachers, the focus of this research project was and the subconscious. Magic Realism, as described by The to examine selected partnership team experiences within Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001, “mingles realistic partnerships in five major cities. These partnerships, comprised portrayals of ordinary events and characters with elements of of representatives from urban schools and urban teacher preparation programs, are a major initiative of the Urban Educator fantasy and myth, creating a rich, frequently disquieting world Corps (UEC) within the Great Cities’ Universities (GCU). that is once familiar and dreamlike.” Currently, Magic Realism Successor to the Urban 13, the GCU is a consortium of 21 urban, refers, but is not exclusive to, Latin American writers such as public research universities committed to addressing urban issues Marguez (Columbia), Rulfo (Mexico), Allende (Chile), Cortazar in areas/strands such as community development, education and (Argentina) and Fuentes (Mexico) to name a few. My own teacher preparation, transportation, and workforce training. In experience with their writings is one of familiarity and a strange the present study, partnership team group interviews were conducted and audio-taped in April, 2003. Each group responded connection to the people, places and events. My interest lies within to 23 questions listed in the group moderator guide. Audio-tapes the “ambiguity of time” in these novels. The blending of the from the group interviews were transcribed into verbatim hard- “ancient” and the “modern” creates difficulty in contextualizing copy narratives for analysis. Results will be presented and the story. This sensation is not unlike my experiences when discussed that hold implications for improving partnership traveling throughout Latin America. experiences that impact developments in urban teacher preparation.
APRIL 13 - DERYCK M. BERNARD, HUMANITIES CENTER VISITING SCHOLAR, APRIL 20- NANCY BARRETT, PROVOST, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC PROFESSOR, GEOGRAPHY; DEAN, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMANITIES, AFFAIRS, “THE ECONOMICS OF GENDER” UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA, “THE AFRICAN FOLK MUSIC TRADITION FROM GUYANA: A Decades have elapsed since the passage of the Equal Pay Act and DISCOURSE AND PERFORMANCE” Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and still a sizeable pay gap The traditional folk music of the African rural communities in between men and women persists. Over the past four decades, Guyana is consistent with the ethnomusicologist’s women have entered the workforce in increasing numbers and characterisations of the range of the syncretic forms of ritual and now represent the majority of college graduates in the United States. But the majority of adult women still work in relatively entertainment which evolved in the Afro Caribbean Diaspora in low-paying, stereotypically female jobs, or in female-dominated the Caribbean. This evolution of the form was noted in the subspecialties in traditional male occupations. This presentation observations of European visitors to Guyana from the beginning will analyze these trends and suggest some barriers to women’s of the nineteenth century to the recognised Creole culture creating full economic participation. a duality within which the folk tradition was regarded as the primitive and backward underground aspect of the black existence. APRIL 22- DAVID WEINBERG, PROFESSOR, HISTORY; DIRECTOR, COHN-HADDOW The form survived and indeed had a renaissance in the pre and CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES, “FINDING A VOICE: ISSUES IN POSTWAR EUROPEAN JEWISH RECOVERY” post independence era. Unfortunately, its survival in the face of All Lectures are Free and Open to the Public There is a tendency pressure from the global cultural industry is by no means certain. to assume that European Jewry disappeared during the Holocaust, Guyana is complex of several cultures from Europe, Asia, and with its scattered remnants fleeing to either America or Israel. Africa. The descendants of African slaves have evolved cultural The reality is far more complicated. Despite numerous material forms which though similar in structure have a unique place in and psychological obstacles in the post-war period and continuing the Diaspora and reflect the cultural clashes and interactions within threats of antisemitism, a number of communities have managed to revive themselves. The presentation discusses the challenges the African community and interactions with the Dutch and British and opportunities facing the Jews of Europe today as they attempt colonial experience. to find their own distinctive path, separate from that of both American and Israeli Jewry. 21 2003-2004 Annual Report Grant Mentorship & Munusculum Grants
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FACULTY GRANT MENTORSHIP PROGRAM The faculty grant mentorship program aims to facilitate external grant writing by allowing faculty with experience in obtaining grant funding in the humanities and arts to share advice FACULTY GRANT with colleagues seeking external grants. Above: Arthur Marotti (center, at head of table), a Grant MENTORS The Center appointed two mentors for Mentor for 2003-2004, gives specific advice about the Arthur Marotti the academic year. Grant mentors for the process of writing successful grants applications. English Sarah Bassett 2003-2004 year were Sarah Bassett and Art & Art History Arthur Marotti.
Sarah Bassett, Associate Professor MUNUSCULUM (SMALL) GRANTS MUNUSCULUM of Art & Art History. Dr. Bassett has Beginning in 2002-2003, the Center GRANTS RECIPIENTS Jeffrey Abt been successful in winning external set aside $5,000 per year for a “Small Art & Art History funding from sources such as NEH, Grants” program. The program offers Robert Aguirre Dumbarton Oaks Research Center/ one-time awards of up to $300 to help English Dora Apel Library of Harvard University, and the faculty with the following academic Art & Art History American Research Institute of Turkey. expenses: data base searches to support Tamara Bray She also has received a number of research and creative projects; Anthropology internal grants. She presented a grant reproduction (photographs, microfilms, John Bukowczyk History writing workshop on March 9, 2004. videos) of materials viewed at libraries Eugenia Casielles Arthur Marotti, Professor of or museums; costs of using copyrighted Romance Languages English. Dr. Marotti has a long history materials in publications; artwork or Jorgelina Corbatta Romance Languages of writing successful grant proposals. He photographs used in publications; Donald Haase has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, an production of camera-ready German & Slavic American Council of Learned Societies manuscripts; direct subvention to Ken Jackson Fellowship, and a NEH Fellowship. He publishers, but excludes travel English Daniel Marcus was also a Humanities Center Fellow at expenses. Requests are funded on a first- Communication Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Marotti come-first-serve basis until the budget Daphne Ntiri presented a grant writing workshops on is exhausted. This year sixteen faculty Interdisciplinary Studies September 12, 2003 and April 7, 2004. Marsha Richmond received small grants: Eugenia Casielles, Interdisciplinary Studies This year’s mentors met with grant Dora Apel, John Bukowczyk, May Michele Ronnick seekers to give advice at the workshops Seikaly, Daphne Ntiri, Robert Aguirre, Classics, Greek & Latin in March and April. In addition, men- Michele Ronnick, Barrett Watten, May Seikaly Near Eastern Studies tors met with grant-seekers for one-on- Jorgelina Corbatta, Daniel Marcus, Barrett Watten one advising. In all, the mentors as- Naomi Liebler, Donald Haase, Tamara English sisted with over a dozen grant propos- Bray, Marsha Ricmond, Ken Jackson, 22 als in 2003-2004. and Jeffrey Abt. 2003-2004 Annual Report Graduate Student Travel
The Humanities Center wishes to encour- age graduate students in the Humanities and SARAH LABEAU the Arts to present their research or artistic English work at national conferences and exhibitions. VICTORIA M. ABBOUD These are good opportunities for graduate stu- English dents to establish and broaden their contacts in their fields, gain valuable presentation ex- JAMES JENNER perience, and add to their curriculum vitae. English Students may apply throughout the year for travel assistance of up to $400 to present their NANCY L. WELTER CONFERENCES ATTENDED work at conferences. English NATIONAL COMMUNICATION The Humanities Center budgeted $10,000 CONFERENCE TEXAS MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION to support this program in 2003-2004. By the NAOMI FOX Linguistics COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION year’s end, this amount was exhausted. The AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION twenty-seven graduate students who took ad- SARAH JAMES vantage of travel support are listed below. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR 18TH English CENTURY STUDIES MIDDLE EAST STUDIES JULIE BORKIN GEORGE LATIMER-KNIGHT ASSOCIATION Communication Philosophy MODERN LANGUAGES ASSOCIATION SOCIETY FOR THE INTERDISCIPLI- NARY STUDY OF SOCIAL IMAGERY NANCY J. BROWN NARISSARA TAWEEKUAKULKIT TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE English Communication MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ARTS & LETTERS CHRISTINE ALSTON PATRIC R. SPENCE NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE Art History Communication ASSOCIATION DENA'INA LANGUAGE WORKSHOP UC SANTA BARBARA HISPANIC CHRISTINE MILLER ELSA DELLATORRE AND LUSOPHONE CONFERENCE Anthropology & Organization studies Romance Languages and Literatures MIDWEST AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION ADRINA GARBOOSHIAN LISA QUINTERO INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures ASIAN STUDIES CENTRAL STATES COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION LINA BEYDOUN MARIA D. RAMOS SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE ON Sociology Romance Languages and Literatures LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE TWELFTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROMANCE SHONU NANGIA BRIAN BITTNER STUDIES Romance Languages and Literatures Communication CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCATION AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION NICOLA WORK KIM M. DAVIS Romance Languages & Literatures CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE English COMPOSITION AND JOY SLACK COMMUNICATION Romance Languages and Literatures KELLY MCDOWELL English CAROLINE JUMEL Romance Languages and Literatures TOBIN STERRITT English JAMES DUTCHER Rhetoric/Forensics (Communication) 23 2004 Fellows Conference The Religious and the Secular
This year’s Faculty Fellows Con- Jerry Herron (English, Honors Program ference was held on April 2, 2004 in Director) moderated the first session of the conference, which included talks entitled “The the David Adamany Undergraduate Religious in the Midst of the Secular: Reli- Library’s Bernath Auditorium. The an- gious Rhetoric in the Civil Courts of Roman nual Faculty Fellows Conference is an Egypt” by Jennifer Sheridan Moss; “Roman opportunity for the previous year’s Fac-
ulty Fellows to present their findings to Right: Ken FACULTY FELLOWS CONFER- the academic community. This year’s Jackson of the English ENCE PRESENTERS theme was “The Religious and the department Secular: Past, Present, and Future.” fields JERRY HERRON Ten Wayne State University faculty audience Moderator, Session 1 questions members, and two keynote speakers after his BARRETT WATTEN comprised the roster The keynote presentation Moderator, Session 2 speakers were Michael Eric Dyson, with Arthur Marotti. the Avalon Professor in the Humanities DIANE SYBELDON at University of Pennsylvania, and John Moderator, Session 3 D. Caputo, the David R. Cook Profes- sor of Philosophy at Villanova Univer- MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Keynote Speaker sity. Ceremonial Sculpture” by Brian Madigan, After opening remarks by the Humani- “From ‘Beloved Community’ to Black Power: JENNIFER SHERIDAN ties Center Director Walter F. Edwards, Dr. The Religious/Secular Dialectic in the Student MOSS Dyson kicked off the conference with his talk, Nonviolent Coordinating Committee” by Classics, Greek & Latin “Light and Darkness: Blending the Sacred and Francis Shor; and “’Other Worlds’: An Eth- the Secular in Everyday Life”, which was ex- nographic Study of Personal Accounts of the BRIAN MADIGAN tremely well-received by the audience. Return of the Dead and Other Mystical Art & Art History
FRANCIS SHOR Interdisciplinary Stud- Left: Michael Eric ies, CULMA Dyson, Avalon Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsyl- vania and keynote speaker at the confer- ence.
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Left: The audience listens to Michael Eric Dyson’s keynote address in Bernath Autidorium.
FACULTY FELLOWS CONFER- ENCE PRESENTERS
JOHN CAPUTO Keynote Speaker
JANET LANGLOIS English Experiences in Health-Related Contexts” by ABOUT THE KEYNOTERS: Janet Langlois. Michael Eric Dyson is the Avalon BRUCE RUSSELL The day’s second keynote speaker, John Professor of the Humanities, University of Philosophy D. Caputo of Villanova University began the Pennsylvania and a Baptist minister. His books second session of the day’s presentations. His include Beyond God and Gangsta Rap: ARTHUR MAROTTI talk, “Religion and Post Secularism” sparked Bearing Witness to Black Culture; Why I Love English a debate among the philosophers in attendance. Black Women; and Mercy, Mercy Me on the Moderator Barrett Watten took charge life, career, and death of Marvin Gaye. K EN JACKSON of the second session of Wayne State faculty John D. Caputo is the David R. Cook English presentations, which included “The Existence Professor of Philosophy at Villanova of God” by Bruce Russell; and “The Turn to University. He is the author of On Religion, E LIZABETH DORN Religion in Early Modern English Studies”, a and The Religious (Blackwell Readings in History joint presentation by Arthur F. Marotti and Continental Philosophy). He is the subject of Ken Jackson. the forthcoming book, A Passion for the ROBERT MARTIN The final session of the conference was Impossible: John D. Caputo in Focus edited Art & Art History moderated by Diane Sybeldon (University by Mark Dooley (release pending). Libraries) and included “’For God, Home and Country’: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Below: John D. Caputo, David R. Cook professor of Union and Reform Efforts in the Meiji Period” Philosophy, addressed the audience in the afternoon. by Elizabeth Dorn;“The Bishop of Belley’s Bloody Stories: Divine Justice in the Theater of the Other World” by Anne Duggan; and the electronic visual and musical experiment that Robert Martin, has entitled, “’Voudou’: An Interactive Opera”. A short reception was held after the confer- ence in the Undergraduate Library’s Community Room, to offer audience members and speakers the opportunity for additional exchange on the topic of “The Religious and the Secular”. 25 2003-2004 Annual Report Working Groups
The Working Groups program is When Cultures Collide: Diversity at WSU designed to promote collaborative and 21 members from 9 different units. innovative research among WSU Group Leaders: Andela Jay, Kimberly Campbell humanities and arts faculty and students. Groups typically include In the 2003-2004 academic year, this group faculty from several different fields as met on a regular basis to discuss important well as graduate students. Working issues related to diversity at Wayne State Groups meet regularly for discussion, University. These included the impact of urban planning, perceptions, verbal and exchange, and planning for events WORKING GROUPS (CORE MEMBERS) non-verbal communication, student/ such as guests speakers and teacher interaction, student/student Science and Society colloquia. The Center supports relationships, and an evaluation of Wayne Marsha Richmond, working groups by providing meeting State University’s mission statement. The Interdisciplinary Studies space and up to $1500 for speakers, group also discussed current events and David Bowen, supported one another with individual Interdisciplinary Studies supplies, or other organizational projects that were created outside the group. Heather Dillaway, needs. The Center staff are working For example, one member of the group Sociology on an external grant proposal to conducted a study of cross-cultural Jazlin Ebenezer, Teacher increase the funding for Working friendships among Wayne State University Education Groups. Supported Working Groups for students. Currently, this project has been Laurie Evans, English extended to the spring/summer semester so 2003-2004 and summaries of their that the group could conduct a study of its When Cultures Collide: work are listed below. Core members own. Focus groups sessions with Diversity at WSU as reported by Working Groups are undergraduate students have been planned Kimberly Campbell, listed in the left and right margins. for July which will allow students to discuss Communication their experiences, attitudes and opinions Angela Jay, about diversity. This will promote Communication Science and Society understanding of the challenges and issues Jason Booza, Political 20 members from 8 different units. that enhance or impede diversity at Wayne Science Group Leader: Marsha Richmond State University. Martha Dowling, Anthropology Raymond Mohamed, With the participation of WSU in the Life Disabilities Studies Geography Sciences Initiative along with the University 16 members from 11 different units. of Michigan and Michigan State University, Group Leader: Sharon Milberger Disabilities Studies one component of which involves funding Barbara LeRoy, Disabilities for social and ethical issues of biomedical The Disability Studies Working Group Institute science, it is a particularly propitious time consists of a team of Wayne State University David Moss, Law for the University to establish ties between scholars from multiple disciplines Jane Depriester-Moranidini, faculty members in the humanities committed to research and teaching on Educational Accessability interested in topics connected with science, disability-related issues. The overall mission Todd Duncan, English engineering, or medicine. This continuing of this group is to explore common interests Robert Erlandson, project in Science and Society brings and develop collaborative programs in Engineering together an interdisciplinary group of faculty Disability Studies. Since receiving a and advanced graduate students who are Humanities Center grant, the Disabilities interested in social, cultural, historical, Studies Working Group has been meeting philosophical, and literary aspects of on a bi-monthly basis to develop a course science, engineering, and medicine. In June on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on 2004 this group brought Ida Stamhuis to Disability. This course will use lectures, Wayne State as a visiting scholar from feature films, readings, and discussions to Amsterdam. Dr. Stamhuis’s research bring multiple viewpoints to bear upon concentrates on women in the field of disability issues and culture. genetics early in the 20th century. 26 2003-2004 Annual Report Working Groups
Word and Image 4 members from 3 different units. Group Leader: Jonathan Flatley
This new Working Group aims to address an area of persistent concern among humanities scholars across the disciplines: the encounters, dialogues, and mutual collaboration (or hostility) between verbal and visual languages. Our proposal seeks to build upon interest already existing WORKING GROUPS (CORE MEMBERS) among graduate students and faculty who The Philosophy of work in film, art history, literature, cultural Mathematics studies, and new media to examine the Above: The Nonsententials Working Groups held a Susan Vineberg, intersection between word and image in conference on April 17, 2004. From left (facing Philosophy several different ways. These would include: camera) are Jean Andruski, Speech Pathology and Robert Bruner, visual artists working with language and Audiology; Eugenia Casielles, Romance Languages & Mathematics writers who use images to challenge and/ Literatures; Geoffrey Nathan, Linguistics; Margaret Sean Stidd, or disrupt ideas about and boundaries Winters, Associate Provost and Professor of Romance Philosophy between “art” and “literature” respectively. Languages & Literatures; and Richard Work, Madeline Muntersbjorn, The first focus of this group was an Andy Romance Languages and Literatures. Philosophy Warhol film series and discussion, aiming to introduce viewers to the range of Warhol’s surprisingly extensive and varied film Word and Image productions. This group also worked to bring Johnathan Flatley, artist Michal Rovner to Wane State, and to English organize a series of seminars and Barrett Watten, discussions that approach the “word and English image” topic from the angle of racial and Dora Apel, The Philosophy of Mathematics gender politics in conceptual art. Art & Art History 11 members from 3 different units. Sheila Lloyd, Group Leader: Susan Vineberg Central European Studies English 10 members from 5 different units. The Philosophy of Mathematics working Group Leader: Kenneth Bronstrom. Central European Studies group was organized in Fall 2001. They used Kenneth Bronstrom, their funding this year to bring two During the Winter semester of 2003, a German & Slavic Studies oustanding philosophers of mathematics to group of 20 faculty members drawn pri- Donald Haase, Wayne State to participate in the marily, but not exclusively, from the German & Slavic Studies collaboration: Stewart Shapiro of Ohio State College of Liberal Arts came together Kevin Krause, University and St. Andrews, and Steven under leadership from the Department of Political Science Wagner of University of Illinois, Urbana- German and Slavic Studies to investigate Andrew Port, Champaign. In addition, Bob Titiev of the the possibility of creating a program in History WSU Department of Philosophy gave a paper Central European Studies at Wayne State. Eileen Trzcinski, on Church’s Thesis and Sean Stidd, also of During 2003-2004, this new group worked Social Work the Department of Philosophy, presented a toward developing a cohesive program of Atilla Yaprak, paper on the identification of mathematical study for this region whose future will Marketing objects across theories. These working undoubtedly impact the future of the group sessions were well attended by faculty western Eurasian continent. Humanities and students from Wayne State and other Center funds were used to bring one more local universities, and led to the initiation expert to campus over the winter break of of a symposium on this topic for the 2003 to further these plans. The group American Philosophical Association also met regularly to discuss readings and meeting. issues relating to Central Europe, and to reshape a grant proposal to be submitted to the NEH. 27 2003-2004 Annual Report Working Groups
A Cross-Linguistic View of the Nature of successfully completed a major activity. In Nonsentential Speech its first year, the Project developed a new 5 members from 2 different units. interdisciplinary course on End-of-Life Group Leader: Ellen Barton issues. This course was offered successfully during 2001 and 2002. In its second year, This group has met throughout the 2003- the Projects utilized funds from a 2004 academic year at the Humanities Humanities Center grant to focus on the Center. The group discusses nonsentential issue of spirituality at the end-of-life. The speech, or speech utterances that do not group has also developed collaborative seem to meet the requirements for being a articles, symposia, and research. One article complete statement according to traditional is now under review by the American WORKING GROUPS (CORE MEMBERS) grammatical criteria. During the academic Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care and year, the “Nonsententials” Working Group A Cross-Linguistic View of two other articles are in preparation for sponsored two seminars and was able to the Nature of submission. As its major activity for the secure some of the top linguists in the field Nonsentential Speech 2003-2004 year, the Project continued as guest lecturers. The final seminar of the Ellen Barton, Linguistics development of a book tentatively titled, 2004 year focused on a variety of views Eugenia Casielles-Suarez, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on End-of-Life. Romance Languages relating to acquisition, syntax, pidgins and Ljiljana Progovac, Linguistics aphasia. Three guest speakers were in Kate Paesani, Romance attendance: Tom Roeper, University of The Fold: Theory and Practice Pat Siple, Psychology Massachusetts - Amherst, Herman Kolk, 6 members from 4 different units. Nicola Work, Romance University of Nijmegen, and Donald Winford, Group Leader: Charles Stivale The Ohio State University. The members of this Working Group have Justice Studies: Normative Justice Studies: Normative and devoted themselves to the scholarly project and empirical approaches Empirical Approaches of creating an ongoing dialogue about the Richard Marback, English 12 members from 8 different units. complex intersections and overlaps inherent Brad Roth, Political Science Group Leader: Richard Marbeck to “the fold.” This focus arises from two Sheldon Alexander, major works of the 1980s by the French Psychology This working group, begun in 2001, met philosopher, Gilles Deleuze, Foucault (1986) Marvin Zalman, regularly in 2003-2004 to discuss published and The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque Criminal Justice political philosophy works such as Antonin (1988), and sections of these two works serve Scalia’s A Matter of Interpretation. The group as the main topics of study and discussion. End of Life Project also discussed their own individual works Gilles Deleuze’s writings, alone and in Donald Gelfand, Sociology in progress for constructive feedback. These collaboration with the French psychoanalyst Lynda Baker, Library Science discussions were important to Félix Guattari, span four decades and at Ardith Doorenbos, accomplishing the group goal of redefining least twice as many domains of reflection. Anthropology its interests in terms of the culture and In regards to Deleuze’s study The Fold: Allen Goodman, Economics language of justice. This goal was identified Leibniz and the Baroque, Deleuze discusses Stephanie Schim, Nursing as most important as a way of infusing new how this concept creates spatio-temporal Peter Wolf, Hospice of interdisciplinary concerns into discussions conjunctions at once with material textures, Michigan and to make the group more productive. The physical movements, corporeal functions, group began negotiations with legal scholars creating in this way a conceptual resonance The Fold: Theory and from the University of Michigan and the in artistic and scientific as well as literary Practice University of Toledo to come to the Wayne and philosophical fields. It is no Charles Stivale, Romance State campus. exaggeration to say, therefore, that Deleuze Languages & Literatures is ideal for work in the context of the Ronald Day, Library Science End of Life Project Humanities Center because, however Erik Mortensen, English 37 members from 19 different units. challenging, Deleuze’s work is one of the very John Richardson, Art & Art Group Leader: Donald Gelfand few in the twentieth century to achieve a History truly conjoined and interdisciplinary The End-of-Life Project is now moving into Ann Duggan, Romance potential for critical reflection. The group’s its fourth year. Begun as a “working group” Languages & Literatures work therefore has consisted of ongoing Michael Giordano, Romance in the Fall of 2000, the Project now includes discussions each week. In these efforts, the faculty and practitioners from many Languages & Literatures Humanities Center’s continued support has disciplines. During each year of its been crucial. 28 existence, the Project has begun and 2003-2004 Annual Report Visiting Scholars & Other Supported Activities
In collaboration with the College of Ur- A second Visiting Scholar, Dr. Ida Stamhuis, ban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, the Law Department for the History and Social Studies of School, and the College of Fine, Performing and Science, Vrije University, Amsterdam was in Communication Arts, the Humanities Center residence from June 8 to July 9, 2004. The Center hosts Visiting Scholars from various universi- collaborated with the department of ties around the country and the world. This Interdisciplinary Studies and CULMA to sponsor program provides the mutually beneficial op- this visit. Dr. Stamhuis’s research focuses on both portunity for the Visiting Scholar and Wayne the history of genetics and statistics and the role State faculty to have exposure to each other’s of women in these fields. ideas and work, and creates a forum for inter- action and collaboration. The Visiting Scholar CO-SPONSORED has use of Humanities Center office space and EVENTS AND equipment, University Library privileges, and ACTIVITIES gives a public lecture on his or her project. 2003-2004 The Visiting Scholar for Spring 2004 was Professor Deryck M. Bernard, the Dean of the ISITING CHOLARS School of Education and the Humanities at the V S University of Guyana. Deryck Bernard In residence at the Center from March 14 University of until April 30, 2004, Professor Bernard worked Guyana on two different projects. In ‘Cultural Policy and Guyana Above: International Visitng Scholar, Deryck M. March-April 2004 Development’, Bernard hoped to articulate a cul- Bernard (right) with Humanities Center Director tural policy as a basis for facilitating patriotism, Walter F. Edwards, at a reception held to welcome Ida Stamhuis tolerance and national confidence in the solution Mr. Bernard of Guyana’s political and economic dilemmas. Vrije University This work used as its basis two assumptions: 1) Amsterdam The formation of Social Capital is a vital aspect June-July 2004 of reform and reorganizing for strengthening de- OTHER SUPPORTED PROGRAMS Other projects that the Humanities Center co- velopment capital, and 2) that the subscription to sponsored during the 2003-2004 academic year OTHER PROGRAMS a constructive and consistent policy on culture and include: 1) Co-sponsorship of the Black History development in nation building is an essential as- A Celebration of Month Program ‘A Celebration of Colors: pect of the formation of Social Capital. Profes- Colors: Honoring Honoring our Ethnic and Cultural Diversities’ held sor Bernard attended seven talks, met with sev- our Ethnic and on February 17, 2004 at the David Adamany eral WSU faculty members, and delivered three Cultural Diversities Undergraduate Library’s Community Room. 2) presentations including a Brown Bag talk on April Support of a lecture given by Marce LaCouture 13, 2004 which summed up his research while in Louisiana Cajun and entitled “Louisiana Cajun and Creole Roots: The residence at the Center. Creole Roots: The Home Music Tradition”, held February 27, 2004 Home Music at the Schaver Music Recital Hall. Ms. Tradition LaCouture’s visit was supported by the Humanities Center and the department of Romance Languages and Literatures. 3) A visit Visiting Poet from Charles Fishman, accomplished poet, to Charles Fishman WSU campus October 7, 2004, co-sponsored with the English department. 4) Travel support Social Immobility in th for Professor Ran-E Hong’s visit to WSU on 17 -Century France March 3, 2004 to give a talk entitled, “Social by visitor Immobility in 17th-Century France” which Ran-E Hong centered on Moliere. This event was co-sponsored Above: Dr. Ida Stamhuis of Vrije University, by the department of Romance Languages and Amsterdam, in her Humanities Center office reserved Literatures. for Visiting Scholars 29 Announcing... A LOOK AHEAD: 2005-2006 COMPETITION THEME:GLOBALIZATION AND THE HUMANITIES Faculty Fellows 2004-2005 With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War and the resulting “New World Order,” and the expansion of the ACULTY ELLOWS global economy came new political and cultural F F 2004-2005 frameworks for development, competition, and “THE BODY” antagonism. Global economic, political, and cultural Congratulations to these Faculty Fellows, change has been relentless, and the humanities can offer who were named in Spring of 2004. They will frameworks for understanding what globalization meams, present papers at the Fellows Conference in its consequences, and its possibilities. spring 2005. Awards ranged from $2000 to Drawing on work in transnational, poststructuralist, postmodern, and postcolonial literary and cultural theory $8000. over the preceding two decades, scholars who study Thomas Abowd globalization and its literary, aesthetic, and cultural SCHEDULED Anthropology implications have found new approaches to inquiry, PROGRAMS Dangerous Bodies/Vulnerable representation, and expression. These multifaceted, 2004-2005 Nations: Arabs and Muslims in a interdisciplinary endeavors seek to create a global framework for literary and cultural analysis and to renew RESIDENT SCHOLARS post-’9/11' America the project of critical theory as a result. Deadline: July 16, 2004 The imperative to “think globally, act locally” has Robert Aguirre repositioned specific disciplines in the humanities. FALL SYMPOSIUM Scholars are exploring from new perspectives the notions THEME: QUESTIONING English of philosophical universals; national and group identity; FOUNDATIONS AND Embodying American Indigenes METHODS IN THE postmodern and postcolonial theory; diaspora, emigration, HUMANITIES AND ARTS and minority cultures; the politics of language; November 12, 2004 Lisabeth Hock psychoanalysis and trauma theory; and digital culture. In German & Slavic Studies focusing discussion on the impact of globalization on the 2005-2006 FACULTY Caught Between Genius and Illness: humanities at Wayne State, critics, scholars, and creative FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION: artists might ask the following: THEME: ‘GLOBALIZATION Melancholy and German Women AND THE HUMANITIES’ -How do we rethink humanist universals in an age of Deadline: March 25, 2005 Writers (1800-1917) global capitalism and cultural antagonism, and institutional change and transformation? 2004-2005 FACULTY FELLOWS CONFERENCE: Lisa Vollendorf - What does the framework of globalization mean for the THEME: ‘THE BODY’ Romance Languages & Literatures integrity of the nation state—in terms of the emergence March 25, 2005 Sex, Violence, and the Law in the of a dominant global superpower (the United States) or the proliferation of smaller nation states (the breakup of Hispanic World EDWARD M. WISE the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc) or the creation of DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP new societies? Deadline: October 15, 2004 Ellen Barton - How does globalization expand and continue the Linguistics processes of postmodern and postcolonial cultural change, ONGOING PROGRAMS Experimenting on the Body and how might we understand new works of art and GRADUATE TRAVEL cultural products within its wider horizon? - How does the new global economy foster cultural change MUNUSCULUM GRANTS Jonathan Flatley through processes of emigration and cultural dispersion? VISITING SCHOLARS English Deadline: July 16, 2004 for Fall; Bodies as Machines: Affect and the - How can minority and indigenous cultures preserve November 12, 2004 for Spring Experience of Modernity their identities in the face of destructive economic rationalization and standardization? - What does the global WORKING GROUPS economy mean for the politics of language, particularly Bart Miles English as a global commercial and scientific language? - Deadline: Sept. 24, 2004 Social Work How have the destructive antagonisms of global politics, Rewriting the Homeless Body: after Rwanda, Kosovo, 9/11/2001, and Iraq, arguably led INNOVATIVE PROJECTS Highlighting a Subjugated Discourse to a culture of trauma and the subsequent demand for Deadline: Dec. 3, 2004 global security? - What new global order has been made possible by the internet, and how is the new global culture Lisa Maruca BROWN BAG COLLOQUIA emerging in the domain of cyberspace? - How can the Interdisciplinary Studies humanities influence globalization and the forces that are Printing Technology and the Body of reframing personhood internationally?- How has the global Learning context of gender changed as women come to the forefront 30 or are pushed back in societies such as Afghanistan? 2004-2005 Activities BROWN BAG COLLOQUIA PLANNED FOR 2004-2005 (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) A Look Ahead September 14 George Galster, Dean of CULMA, “Sprawl and Pornography” 21 Brendt Ostendorf, Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich, “American Conspiracy Theories from a European Perspective” 23 Herb Granger, Philosophy, “What Ails the Humanities?” 28 Bob Sedler, Law, “Same-Sex Marriage” 30 Shiri Katz-Gershon and Jean Andruski, Speech Language Pathology, “Speech Perception and Vocabulary Development” October 5 John Corvino, Philosophy, “Preference and Discrimination” 7 Kathleen McNamee, Classics, Greek & Latin, “Scholars’ Libraries” 12 Ken Jackson, English, “Shakespeare’s Richard III and our Pauline Moment” 14 Robert Arking, Biology, “Extending Longevity: Implications” 19 Kate Paesani, Romance Languages & Literatures, and Catherine Barrette, Romance Languages & Literatures, “A Theoretical Model of Program Articulation: Implications for Curriculum Development” 21 Marsha Richmond, Interdisciplinary Studies, “The Darwin 1909 Celebration at Cambridge: Re-evaluating Evolution in Light of Mendel, Mutation, and Meiosis” 26 Nira Pullin and Mary Copenhagen, Theatre, “Victorian Secrets - Underneath It All: Dress, Deportment and Dance of the late Victorian Age for the Stage” 28 James Tucker, Chair, Biological Sciences, “The Human Genome: What it Might Mean to Me” November 2 Kimberly Campbell and Donyale Griffin, Communication, “Un‘Rappin’ Hip Hop: Language and Culture” 4 Thomas Abowd, Anthropology, “The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in Contemporary Jerusalem” 9 Elizabeth Dorn, History, “Temperance and the Modernization of Japan” 16 Mame Jackson, Art & Art History, “Handing it on: The Legacy of African American Art in Southeast Michigan” 18 Rynell Johnson, Clothing Design, “The Wardrobe: Cultural Profiles” 23 Tony Crowley, Chair, Art & Art History, “Finding Visual Form in John Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso” 30 Anca Vlasopolos, English, “Crossing the Equator and Other Maritime Rituals: Gender Bending on the High Seas” December 2 Sandra Van Burkleo, History, “Gender, State Paternalism and the Invention of Modern Citizenship in the Pacific Northwest 1879-1912” 7 Steven Spur, Economics, “An Experimental Study of Lesser Included Offenses in Criminal Law” 9 William Lynch, Interdisciplinary Studies, “How the West was Won ... Starting in Ireland” 14 Jeffrey Abt, Art & Art History, “The Poetics of Popularization: Making Research Accessible a Century Ago” January 11 Richard Grusin, Chair, English, “Cinema of Interactions” 13 David Magidson, Theatre, “Ovid’s Metamorphoses: 2000-Year-Old Lessons for Our Time” 18 J. Van Der Weg, Associate Dean, “Publishing Your Research: An Editor’s Perspective” 20 Laura Winn, Communication, “Rise of the Moorlocks: Voices of Working Class Academics and Their Import for Diverse Pedagogy” 25 Allen Goodman, Economics, “Can Medical Treatments that Shorten One’s Life be Efficacious?” 27 Jerry Herron, English, “Readings from the Fieldtrips Project: The Deep Structure of Target, Home Depot, Taco Bell” February 1 Rodney Clark, Psychology, “Racism and the Health Divide: Effects across the Life Span” 3 Donald Schurlknight, Chair, Romance Languages & Literatures, Power and Politics: Larra and the Death Penalty in Romantic Spain” 8 Osaumaka Likaka, History, “Talking Under One’s Breath: Praise Nicknames as Voices of Protest” 10 Juanita Anderson, Communication, “The Representation of African American Culture in Public Media” 15 Ron Brown, Political Science, “Nat Turner” 17 Vanessa Middleton, Library & I.S., “International Librarianship: Building an Online Professional Development Learning Community” 22 Leon Wilson, Chair, Sociology, “Fatherhood in the Caribbean: Myths and Realities” 24 Norah Duncan IV, Music, “A Comparative Discussion of African and African American Spirituality” March 1 Karl Braunschweig, Music, “Master Metaphors of Musical Form: Language, Architecture, Organicism, Drama” 3 Marvin Zalman, Criminal Justice, “The Literature and Film of Wrongful Convictions” 8 Aaron Retish, History, “Contesting Hegemony: Peasant and State Relations During Russia’s Civil War, 1918-21" 22 Mary Garrett, Chair, Communication, “Orientalism: An Autoethnography” 24 Mary Cay Sengstock, Sociology, “What Do We Really Mean By Diversity?” 29 Lisabeth Hock, German & Slavic, “Shades of Melancholy in Gabriele Reuter’s From a Good Family (1895)” April 5 Heidi Gottfried, CULMA, “Regularizing Labor: Gender and Work in an Era of Restructuring” 12 David Moxley & Olivia Washington, Social Work, “Homelessness in Late Life: What a Humanistic Perspective Can Help Us Illuminate” 31 19 Frank Wu, Dean, Law School, TBD HUMANITIESBringing Humanists Together for Collaborative Research CENTER 2147 Old Main 4841 Cass Avenue Detroit, MI 48202 Tel: 313 577.5471 Fax: 313 577.2843
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