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Borders in Jewish Thought

Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies. Other Sponsor(s): The Franke Institute for the Humanities, Committee on Social Thought, Divinity School, History, and NELC. Conference Title: Borders in Jewish Thought. Presenter(s): Rachel Havrelock, University of Illinois, Chicago Ofri Ilani Sam Shonkoff Rhona Seidelman, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hillel Ben Sasson Adam Stern Rachel Seeling, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto Israel Yuval, Hebrew University Jerusalem. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: None. Contact Name: Miller Prosser. Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-7108. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The conference will explore the ways in which Jews have invoked the borders of the Land of Israel as a malleable metaphor for considering a variety of issues that extend beyond geography. The Hebrew Bible presents several border schemes of the Land of Israel: some extend from the Nile to the Euphrates, while others are limited to the land of Canaan hemmed in by the Jordan; some emphasize natural boundaries while others delineate the borders according to ritual logic. Each scheme represents a different conce… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Monday, February 13, 2012, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637.

Keynote lecture for "Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization," Elisabeth Wood

Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Human Rights Program. Presenter: Elisabeth Wood, Professor of Political Science, Yale University. Lecture Title: "Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization". Contact Name: Sarah Tuohey. Contact E-mail: stuohey@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-2365. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Keynote lecture for “Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization,” symposium in connection with the CSGS Sawyer Seminar “International Women’s Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities”. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637.

"Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization"

Building/Room: Classics 110. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Human Rights Program. Conference Title: "Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization". Presenter(s): Faculty Presenters: Dara Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota Jocelyn Kelly, Director of the Women in War Program for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University Graduate Student Presenters: Amanda Blair, Political Science Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, Political Science, Stanford Jonathan Shaw, History, University of Michigan. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: None. Contact Name: Sarah Tuohey. Contact E-mail: stuohey@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-2365. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: A symposium in connection with the CSGS Sawyer Seminar “International Women’s Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities”. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, March 2, 2012, 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM. Classics 110 1010 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637.

Medical Pluralism in Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia

Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: CEERES. Other Sponsor(s): Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies. Presenter(s): Sarah Phillips (Indiana University); Alaina Lemon (U. Michigan); Danuta Penkala-Gawecka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland); Michele Rivkin-Fish (UNC-Chapel Hill); Justine Buck Quijada (Wesleyan University; Eugene Raikhel (U. Chicago); Sheila Fitzpatrick (U. Chicago); Michael David (U. Chicago); Robert Bird (U. Chicago); Larisa Jasarevic (U. Chicago); Tatiana Chudakova (U. Chicago); Nelly Samoukova Leavitt (U. Chicago). Title: "Medical Pluralism in Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia". Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Meredith Clason. Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-0866. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Many observers have noted the multiplicity of approaches to healing that have emerged in post-Soviet Eurasia over the past 20 years. Aside from transformations in the domain of biomedicine, these range from healing practices linked to religions traditionally associated with the region (such as Russian Orthodoxy and Buddhism) to those derived from new religions, “occult practices” or New Age spirituality to self- and mutual-help movements such as Alcoholics Anonymous. While these developments have often be… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, March 2, 2012, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit ceeres.uchicago.edu.

Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity

Building/Room: Various. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, Department of Philosophy, Prof. Arnold Davidson. Conference Title: Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity. Presenter(s): Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke) Michael Fried (Humanities Center/Art History, Johns Hopkins University) Arata Hamawaki (Philosophy, Auburn) Andrew Klevan (Film Studies, Oxford) Toril Moi (Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University) Richard Moran (Philosophy, Harvard University) Yi-Ping Ong (The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University) Robert Pippin (Philosophy, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago. Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Gilad Nir. Contact E-mail: giladnir@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8513. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Workshop on Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetics, Criticism and Conception of Modernity. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, March 2, 2012, 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM. Friday, March 2nd: 9:30am-12:30pm - Stuart 101; 2pm-6pm - Harper 140 Saturday & Sunday, March 3-4th: Franke Institute. For more info visit cavell.sites.uchicago.edu.

Around1948 Symposium: Post-World War II Trials and the Reconstruction of European States

Building/Room: Multiple. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Conference Title: The Post-World War II Trials and the Reconstruction of European States. Presenter(s): Devin Pendas (Boston College) Ben Frommer (Northwestern University) Francine Hirsch (University of Wisconsin, Madison). Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: None. Contact Name: Susan Gooding. Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 715-790-2389. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: An afternoon symposium devoted to discussion of Central and European cases in which courts served as key sites in the post-WWII purging of Nazi collaborators and war criminals in Central and Eastern Europe, and to the role played by this “juridification of war” in the reconstruction of modern Europe and contemporary European legal culture. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, March 2, 2012, 2:00 PM – 5:15 PM. John Hope Franklin Room (224) and Social Sciences Tea Room (201), Social Sciences Research Building, 1126 E. 59th St. For more info visit around1948.uchicago.edu.

Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity

Building/Room: Various. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, Department of Philosophy, Prof. Arnold Davidson. Conference Title: Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity. Presenter(s): Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke) Michael Fried (Humanities Center/Art History, Johns Hopkins University) Arata Hamawaki (Philosophy, Auburn) Andrew Klevan (Film Studies, Oxford) Toril Moi (Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University) Richard Moran (Philosophy, Harvard University) Yi-Ping Ong (The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University) Robert Pippin (Philosophy, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago. Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Gilad Nir. Contact E-mail: giladnir@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8513. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Workshop on Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetics, Criticism and Conception of Modernity. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, March 3, 2012, 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM. Friday, March 2nd: 9:30am-12:30pm - Stuart 101; 2pm-6pm - Harper 140 Saturday & Sunday, March 3-4th: Franke Institute. For more info visit cavell.sites.uchicago.edu.

Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity

Building/Room: Various. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, Department of Philosophy, Prof. Arnold Davidson. Conference Title: Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity. Presenter(s): Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke) Michael Fried (Humanities Center/Art History, Johns Hopkins University) Arata Hamawaki (Philosophy, Auburn) Andrew Klevan (Film Studies, Oxford) Toril Moi (Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University) Richard Moran (Philosophy, Harvard University) Yi-Ping Ong (The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University) Robert Pippin (Philosophy, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago. Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Gilad Nir. Contact E-mail: giladnir@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8513. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Workshop on Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetics, Criticism and Conception of Modernity. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Sunday, March 4, 2012, 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM. Friday, March 2nd: 9:30am-12:30pm - Stuart 101; 2pm-6pm - Harper 140 Saturday & Sunday, March 3-4th: Franke Institute. For more info visit cavell.sites.uchicago.edu.

Exemplarity/Singularity

March 8: 1 pm to 6 pm March 9: 10 am to 6 pm March 10: 9 am to 12.30 pm. Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, The Department of Classics and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, Memoria Romana, the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop. Conference Title: Exemplarity/Singularity. Presenter(s): Organizers: Michèle Lowrie (Classics, Chicago), Susanne Lüdemann (German, Chicago) Participants: Clifford Ando (Classics, Chicago), Jim Chandler (English, Chicago), Alex Dressler (Classics, Wisconsin), Paul Fleming (German, Cornell), Christiane Frey (German, Princeton), Jan Goldstein (History, Chicago), Barbara Hahn (German, Vanderbilt), Rebecca Langlands (Classics, Exeter), Simon Malloch (Classics, Nottingham), David Martyn (German, McCalister), Michael Peachin (Classics, NYU), Matthew Roller (Cla… Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: None. Contact Name: Susanne Luedemann. Contact E-mail: sluedemann@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This interdisciplinary conference considers antique and modern forms of exemplarity and their role in constructing subjectivity. It deals with the transformation of textual genres such as casus and exemplum, anecdote, and novella from antiquity to modernity and with the ways in which these genres shape the relationship between exemplarity and singularity. At issue are knowledge formation and transmission, memory and its media, the pragmatics of telling stories, the structure of the disciplines, and the inte… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, March 8, 2012, 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit german.uchicago.edu.

Workshop on Greek Linguistics

Building/Room: Classics 314. Primary Sponsor: Linguistics. Other Sponsor(s): Franke Institute. Title: Workshop on Greek Linguistics. Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Anastasia Giannakidou. Contact E-mail: giannaki@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-834-9819. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This workshop provides a platform for the presentation of papers by researchers working on the Greek language in all its stages and from all perspectives; it is inclusive and ecumenical, ranging from traditional philological research to formal semantic analysis, with the explicit goal of crossing traditional boundaries and encouraging researchers to learn from each other. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, March 9, 2012, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Classics Building, Room 314 1010 E. 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637.

Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas

Building/Room: Ida Noyes West Room. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): Dean of the Humanities Division, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Scherer Center for the American culture, Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology. Conference Title: Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: None. Contact Name: Alan Yu. Contact E-mail: wscla17@gmail.com. Contact Phone: 773-702-8528. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) is an annual linguistics conference, which started in 1995. The central objective of WSCLA is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the formal study of aboriginal languages of the Americas in order to exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and across the academic and non-academic communities who are involved in language maintenance and revitalization. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, March 9, 2012, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Ida Noyes Hall West Room 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit sites.google.com.

Exemplarity/Singularity

March 8: 1 pm to 6 pm March 9: 10 am to 6 pm March 10: 9 am to 12.30 pm. Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, The Department of Classics and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, Memoria Romana, the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop. Conference Title: Exemplarity/Singularity. Presenter(s): Organizers: Michèle Lowrie (Classics, Chicago), Susanne Lüdemann (German, Chicago) Participants: Clifford Ando (Classics, Chicago), Jim Chandler (English, Chicago), Alex Dressler (Classics, Wisconsin), Paul Fleming (German, Cornell), Christiane Frey (German, Princeton), Jan Goldstein (History, Chicago), Barbara Hahn (German, Vanderbilt), Rebecca Langlands (Classics, Exeter), Simon Malloch (Classics, Nottingham), David Martyn (German, McCalister), Michael Peachin (Classics, NYU), Matthew Roller (Cla… Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: None. Contact Name: Susanne Luedemann. Contact E-mail: sluedemann@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This interdisciplinary conference considers antique and modern forms of exemplarity and their role in constructing subjectivity. It deals with the transformation of textual genres such as casus and exemplum, anecdote, and novella from antiquity to modernity and with the ways in which these genres shape the relationship between exemplarity and singularity. At issue are knowledge formation and transmission, memory and its media, the pragmatics of telling stories, the structure of the disciplines, and the inte… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, March 9, 2012, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit german.uchicago.edu.

Exemplarity/Singularity

March 8: 1 pm to 6 pm March 9: 10 am to 6 pm March 10: 9 am to 12.30 pm. Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, The Department of Classics and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, Memoria Romana, the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop. Conference Title: Exemplarity/Singularity. Presenter(s): Organizers: Michèle Lowrie (Classics, Chicago), Susanne Lüdemann (German, Chicago) Participants: Clifford Ando (Classics, Chicago), Jim Chandler (English, Chicago), Alex Dressler (Classics, Wisconsin), Paul Fleming (German, Cornell), Christiane Frey (German, Princeton), Jan Goldstein (History, Chicago), Barbara Hahn (German, Vanderbilt), Rebecca Langlands (Classics, Exeter), Simon Malloch (Classics, Nottingham), David Martyn (German, McCalister), Michael Peachin (Classics, NYU), Matthew Roller (Cla… Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: None. Contact Name: Susanne Luedemann. Contact E-mail: sluedemann@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This interdisciplinary conference considers antique and modern forms of exemplarity and their role in constructing subjectivity. It deals with the transformation of textual genres such as casus and exemplum, anecdote, and novella from antiquity to modernity and with the ways in which these genres shape the relationship between exemplarity and singularity. At issue are knowledge formation and transmission, memory and its media, the pragmatics of telling stories, the structure of the disciplines, and the inte… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, March 10, 2012, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit german.uchicago.edu.

Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas

Building/Room: Ida Noyes West Room. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): Dean of the Humanities Division, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Scherer Center for the American culture, Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology. Conference Title: Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: None. Contact Name: Alan Yu. Contact E-mail: wscla17@gmail.com. Contact Phone: 773-702-8528. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) is an annual linguistics conference, which started in 1995. The central objective of WSCLA is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the formal study of aboriginal languages of the Americas in order to exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and across the academic and non-academic communities who are involved in language maintenance and revitalization. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, March 10, 2012, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Ida Noyes Hall West Room 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit sites.google.com.

Around1948 Public Lecture and Workshop: Title TBA

Building/Room: Classics 110. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Presenter: Lydia Liu (Chinese and Comparative Literature, Columbia University). Contact Name: Susan Gooding. Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 715-790-2389. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, April 5, 2012, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Classics 110 1010 E. 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit around1948.uchicago.edu.

The Chicago Humanities Forum Presents James Sparrow

This event is open to the public. Please RSVP by Friday, April 6, 2012. You may call (773)702-8274 or email franke-humanities@uchicago.edu. You may also register online through this calendar application. Building/Room: Gleacher Center, Room 621. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Presenter: James Sparrow is Associate Professor, Department of History and the College. Lecture Title: “Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government ”. Contact E-mail: franke-humanities@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8274. Campus Map: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/visit/gleacher/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM. Gleacher Center 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Room 621 Chicago, IL.

Around1948 Conference: The Legacies of 1948

Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Conference Title: The Legacies of 1948. Presenter(s): * Keynote: Timothy Mitchell (Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University) * Fred Cooper (History, NYU), * Manu Goswami (History, NYU), * Laura Gotkowitz (History, University of Pittsburgh), * Nancy Kates (award-winning documentary filmmaker), * John Kelly (Anthropology, University of Chicago), * Efren Rivera-Ramos (University of Puerto Rico Law School). Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: None. Contact Name: Susan Gooding. Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 715-790-2389. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, April 26, 2012, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit around1948.uchicago.edu.

Around1948 Conference: The Legacies of 1948

Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Conference Title: The Legacies of 1948. Presenter(s): * Keynote: Timothy Mitchell (Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University) * Fred Cooper (History, NYU), * Manu Goswami (History, NYU), * Laura Gotkowitz (History, University of Pittsburgh), * Nancy Kates (award-winning documentary filmmaker), * John Kelly (Anthropology, University of Chicago), * Efren Rivera-Ramos (University of Puerto Rico Law School). Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: None. Contact Name: Susan Gooding. Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 715-790-2389. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, April 27, 2012, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit around1948.uchicago.edu.

Around1948 Public Workshop: Title TBA

Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): Cosponsored with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality’s Sawyer Seminar Conference “Engendering Rights in India: The Colonial Encounter and Beyond” (May 3-4). Presenter(s): Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (English, New York University). Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Susan Gooding. Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 715-790-2389. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Held in conjunction with the Franke Center for Disciplinary Innovation course “Postcolonial Intersections: The Middle East and South Asia” taught by Sawyer Seminar faculty Leela Gandhi & Lisa Wedeen. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 2:00 PM – 5:15 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit around1948.uchicago.edu.

Around1948 Panel and Discussion: "Cybernetics and the Disciplines: The Case of Anthropology

Reception to follow. Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): Cosponsored by the Disciplines and Technologies Project of the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Presenter(s): Poornima Paidipaty (Social Sciences, U of Chicago), Bernard Geoghegan (Screen Cultures, Northwestern University and Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar). Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Susan Gooding. Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 715-790-2389. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Cosponsored by the Disciplines and Technologies Project of the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit around1948.uchicago.edu.