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2013-2014 Center for the Humanities Fellows Symposium


Friday
10-10-14
10:30 AM

Otto G. Richter Library
Third Floor Conference Room

Session 1 : 10:30am - 12:00pm
•"Al-Andalus and Coloniality: 20th-Century Arab & Hispanic Invocations of Medieval Spain", Christina Civantos (MLL)
•"Religion, Enlightenment, and Gender: The Case of a Muslim Mughal Poet - Mirza Ghalib", Amanullah De Sondy (Religious Studies)
•"Generational Refusal: A Promiscuous Archive of Independence", Donette Francis (English)
LUNCH: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Session 2 — 1:00pm - 2:00pm
•"Academic Legitimacy in Post-Republic Siena", Carolyn Zimmerman (History)
•"Requesting Tears of Sacrifice from Eight-Flint Woman: An Incantation for Cultivating Maguey in Colonial Mexico", Viviana Díaz Balsera (MLL)

Session 3 — 2:15pm - 3:15pm
•"France and the Marne", Michael Miller (History)
•"Refiguring Vienna: The Modern Body in Austrian Expressionism", Nathan Timpano (Art & Art History)

Session 4 — 3:30pm - 4:30pm
•"Sebastian/Fairfax, Hamel, and the Duppy: Shape-Shifting Figures in Cynric R. Williams’ Jamaican Creole Society", Claudia Amadori (English)
•"Shaping the Cane Fields: Community Formation and Spatial Politics on Dominican Sugar Plantations, 1915-1930", Amelia Hintzen (History)

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