Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Series
Nations and Identities: Between Culture and State
Rogers Brubaker, Convener, Department of Sociology, UCLA
Andrew W. Mellon 2001-2003 Postdoctoral Fellows:
José Cartagena-Calderón (Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, 2000,
Harvard University)
Mara Loveman (Ph.D. in Sociology, 2001, UCLA)
Laura Schattschneider (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2000, University of
California, Berkeley)
Seminars
Seminars take place Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
in the Herbert Morris Seminar Room, 306 Royce Hall
October 15, 2001
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
Democracy, Popular Culture, and the National Past: National Citizenship and the Politics of Nostalgia in Western Europe, 1945-2000
November 28
Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Global Rise of Religious Terrorism
January 28
Jagdish Kumar, University of Virginia
Empire and Identities: Britain and Other Imperial Nations in Comparative Perspective
February 4
David Bell, Johns Hopkins University
Was France a Nation in 1789? Nation-Building and the Paradox of Nationalism
April 8
José Cartagena-Calderón, UCLA Humanities Consortium
Transatlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Early Modern Spain
April 22
Leora Auslander, University of Chicago
"National taste?" Citizenship Law, State Form, and Everyday Aesthetics in Modern France and Germany
May 6
Laura Schattschneider, UCLA Humanities Consortium
Foundling Narratives: Fictions of National Kinship in England, France, and Germany 1740-1840
May 20 (* rescheduled from March 11)
Mara Loveman, UCLA Humanities Consortium
Race and the Making of the Modern Nation-State in Latin America
Conference
June 7 - 8
Language and Nation - conference
How do we talk about language and nation? And how do we do so in different disciplines? What is at stake in talking about language in conjunction with nation-building, nationalism, or national identity? What alters the terms of such a discussion from one discipline to another, or from one historical period to another? How is such a discussion impacted by issues of translation, colonization, globalization, and postcolonial or transnational identity? We hope to foster discussion between people from the humanities and the social sciences.
Program details to be announced