past knowing
spring 2008 calendar

all events are free and open to the public

Friday, February 15

Tragedy Into Melodrama:
Towards a Poetics of Gay Male Culture
a lecture by David Halperin (English, Michigan)
Keynote for Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

3:30 pm, Curtin Hall 175

Friday, February 29

Past Knowing?: The Practice and Infrastructure of Imitation in Contemporary News Work
a lecture by Pablo Boczkowski (Communication, Northwestern)

3:30 pm, Curtin Hall 118

Friday, March 14

Past Anatomy: Figures of Salvage and Transformations in
the Body Worlds Exhibitions
a seminar by Peter McIsaac (German Studies, York)

12:00 pm, Holton Hall 341

Friday, March 28

Disciplinary Dialogue
Neomedievalism and the Church of Theory:
Academic Prose from the Cold War to the War on Terror
a lecture by Bruce Holsinger (English & Music, Virginia)
with comment by Gabrielle Spiegel (History, Johns Hopkins)

3:00 pm, Holton Hall 341

Thursday-Friday, April 3-4

Picturing the Modern:
Photography, Film, and Society in Central Europe, 1918-1945
a symposium organized by Daniel J. Sherman and Lisa Hostetler (Milwaukee Art Museum), with David Frey (History, West Point), Elizabeth Otto (Visual Culture, SUNY-Buffalo), Anson Rabinbach (Keynote; History, Princeton), Lisa Silverman (History, UWM), Petr Szczepanik (Film Studies, Masaryk University), and Matthew Witkovsky (National Gallery of Art)

To register (required), please visit this Milwaukee Art Museum link and complete the registration form by March 21, 2008

Milwaukee Art Museum (700 N Art Museum Dr)
Get directions here
5:15 pm, April 3; 10:00 am April 4

Friday, April 18

Precisionist Painting and Critical Art History's Dilemma:
Aesthetics and the Limits of Historical Meaning
a lecture by Andrew Hemingway (Art History, University College, London)

3:30 pm, Curtin Hall 118

Thursday, May 1 NEW ADDITION TO THE CENTER CALENDAR

The Death of Politics?
Human Rights, New Public Spheres, and the Jihad
a lecture by Thomas Keenan
(Comparative Literature and Human Rights Program, Bard College)
brief abstract (pdf)

with a comment by Samuel Weber
(Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities, Northwestern)

3:30 pm, Curtin Hall 175

co-sponsored by The Comparative Study of Religion Program and The Department of English (Colloquium Series on the Global Modern, with support of the William F. Vilas Trust)

Note: This lecture replaces the event previously schedule for May 2

Center for 21st Century Studies

Daniel J. Sherman, Director