2012-2013 Academic Year
Cine en Construccion (Films in Progress): The San Sebastian (Spain) Film Festival and its Role in Shaping Latin American Film
Date: April 8, 2013
Tamara Falicov, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Filma dn Media Studies, University of Kansas
Public Lectures with Leo Chavez: Illegality Across Generations
Date: March 20, 2013
Leo Chavez, Professor, Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine
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Theatre and Attitudes Part Two, A Transdisciplinary Study of Experiments in Personal Transformation
Date: March 6, 2013
Bonnie Eckard, Professor, School of Theatre and Film
Arthur Glenburg, Professor, Psychology
2013 IHR Annual Distinguished Lecture with Donna Haraway
"'Multispecies Cosmopolitics: Staying with the Trouble"
Date: March 5, 2013
Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness program, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Crossing the Language Barrier: Second Language Speakers and Use on Popular American Television
Date: February 25, 2013
James G. Mitchell, Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor of French, Italian, & Linguistics, Salve Regina University
Comics and Beyond the Human
Date: February 12, 2013
Moderator: Ron Broglio, Associate Professor, English
Panelist: Ed Finn, Director, Center for Science & the Imagination; Paul Cook, Principal Lecturer, English; Michael Noschka, PhD Student, English
Faculty Seminar Series 2012-13
"'The Hydrants are Open:' Latinos and Broadway in the 21st Century"
Date: September 25, 2012
David Román, Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Southern California
Performance as Emergence
Date: November 14, 2012
Grisha Coleman, Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Media, and Engineering - "Hybrid Place: Interface, Performance, Environment"
Ron Broglio, Associate Professor, Department of English - "Non-Rational Thought, Humor, and the Academy"
Performance and the Text
Date: January 29, 2013
Gitta Honegger, Professor, School of Theatre and Art
Stephen West, Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures
Nerd Talk, Geek Speak, and the Challenges of 21st Century Knowledge Silos
Date: October 1, 2012
Neal Stephenson, Celebrated Author
Keith Hjelmstad, Professor, Structural Engineer, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Alice Daer, Social Media Scholar
Ed Finn (Moderator), Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Arts, Media and Engineering
2012 Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award and Faculty Authors' Reception
Date: September 18, 2012
Book Award Recipient: Rob Nixon, "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor"
Being Human in a Post-human World
Date: September 11, 2012
Moderator:
Dan Gilfillan, Acting Director of the IHR, Associate Professor of German Studies and Information Literacy
Panel Members:
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Director of Jewish Studies, Professor of History
Ben Hurlbut, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, IHR Fellow
Ron Broglio, Assistant Professor, Department of English
2011-2012 Academic Year
2011-12 Faculty Seminar Series
Stolen Rhetoric
Date: January 30, 2012
Keith MIller, Department of English - "Manglin Martin Luther King: How to Oppress the Poor While Hijacking Affirmative Action"
Mathew Whitaker, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies - "One Nation Under a Groove: How Black Culture Makes America Cool"
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Literary Insights
Date: November 14, 2011
Deb Clark, Department of English - "Reading Faulkner in Sichuan" -
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Ian Moulton, Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication, School of Letters and Sciences - "Whatever you Need, 'Shakespear is There'" -
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The Limits of Reason
Date: October 5, 2011
Joel Gereboff, Religious Studies, School of Historial, Philosophical, and Religious Studies - "Emotions and Reason"
Patricia Huntington, Philosophy, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences - "Decentering the "Rational Man" in Philisophy" -
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2012 Fellows Symposium: [Im]migration & Movement
Date: April 13, 2012
Ruth Behar, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor, Anthropology, University of Michigan - "Belonging in a (Seemingly) Borderless World: Ethnographic Stories"
Alexander Henn, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Arizona State - "The Movement of Peoples Through Post Colonial Spaces"
Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor, Sociology, CUNY Hunter - "Immigration Past & Present: A comparative View"
Cecilia Menjivar, Professor, School of Social & Family Dynamics, Arizona State University - "Legality Beynod Borders: U.S. Immigration Law & Transnational Links"
Lisa Magana, Associate Professor, School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State Univerisity - "Mobilizing Latinos: Immigration & Politics in Arizona"
Andrea Ballesteo; Ruth Behar, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor, Anthropology, University of Michigan; Alexander Henn, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Arizona State; Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor, Sociology, CUNY Hunter; Cecilia Menjivar, Professor, School of Social & Family Dynamics, Arizona State University
The Future of Food: In the Desert and Beyond
Date: April 2, 2012
"The Future of Food: In the Desert and Beyond"
Gary Nabhan, Kellogg Endowed Chair in Borderlands Food and Water Security, University of Arizona Southwest Center
A Jenny Norton Humanities and Sustainability Lecture
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Homegrown Nativism or Corporate Profits?
Date: March 28, 2012
Robin Jacobson, Assistant Professor of Politics and Government, University of Puget Sound
Migration Interrupted: Rights, Freedom, Opportunism, and the Controversy Over U.S. Immigration Policy
Date: March 8th, 2012
Coco Fusco, Director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons The New School for Design
ASU and the Digital Humanities
Date: February 23, 2012
Nancy Dallett, SHPRS, Public History; Ed Finn, Department of English, Arts Media and Engineering, Office of University Initiatives; Manfred Laubichler, School of Life Sciences; Mary Whelan, ASU Libraries
Journalism and the Humanities: Sources of Estrangement and Future Prospects for Collaboration
Date: February 17, 2012
Session I: What's lost to journalism and the humanities when the two are estranged
Greg Zachary, Professor of Practice, ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (CSPO)
Stephen Payne, Regents' Professor, School of Life Sciences
Lee Gutkind, Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, CSPO
Craig Allen, Associate Professor, Cronkite School
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Session II: What's lost to consumers of journalism because of its current estrangement from the humanities
Sally Kitch, Regents' Professor, Women and Gender Studies;
Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Associate Professor, Cronkite School
Leslie-Jean Thornton, Assistant Professor, Cronkite School; Dennis Russell, Associate Professor, Cronkite School
Dennis Russel, Associate Professoe, Cronkite School
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2010-2011 academic year