Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Series
Nations and Identities: Knowledges and Technologies
Kirstie McClure, Convener, Department of Political Science, UCLA
Andrew W. Mellon 2002-2004 Postdoctoral Fellows:
Brian Silverstein (Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2002, UC Berkeley)
Colleen Terrell (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2002, University of Pennsylvania)
Nina Treadwell (Ph.D. in Musicology, 2000, USC)
Woodrow Wilson Foundation 2002-2004 Postdoctoral Fellow:
Alexander Edmonds (Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2002, Princeton University)
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
November 25, 2002
Theodore Porter, UCLA
Power in Numbers: Rethinking the Early History
of Social Science
December 9, 2002
Colleen Terrell, UCLA Humanities Consortium
"Republican Machines":
Franklin, Rush, and the Manufacture of Civic Virtue in the Early American Republic
(To view the above paper/pdf file, you must
have Adobe Acrobat Reader software. You can go to http://www.adobe.com
to download a free copy.)
January 27, 2003
James Clifford, UC Santa Cruz
Indigenous Museums/Cultural Centers and the
Performance of Identity
Traditional Futures,
a related paper by Professor Clifford which represents his basic approach
(To view the above paper/pdf file, you must have
Adobe Acrobat Reader software. You can go to http://www.adobe.com
to download a free copy.)
February 3, 2003
Mariella Pandolfi, University of Montreal
Transitory Identities, Mobile Sovereignties:
Humanitarian-military Technologies and Their Discontents
February 24, 2003 **CANCELLED**
Margaret Jacob, UCLA
The State, Scientific Education, and Industrial
Development: Britain, France, and the Low Countries
March 3, 2003
Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
Capitalism, Compassion, and the Children: Rosetta
and La Promesse
March 17, 2003
Alexander Edmonds, UCLA Humanities Consortium
New Markets, New Bodies: 'Democratizing' Beauty
in Brazil
April 29, 2003 (date
changed from April 28; please note that this is on a TUESDAY, not a Monday)
Tzvetan Todorov, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, Paris
Memory: Past Identities, Future Projects
May 5, 2003
Charles Hirschkind, University of Wisconsin
Paying the Price of Virtue: Media, Markets,
and the Politics of Islamic Revival
May 12, 2003
Brian Silverstein, UCLA Humanities Consortium
Islamic Discipline in Modern Turkey: European
Provinces of the Muslim World
May 19, 2003
Nina Treadwell, UCLA Humanities Consortium
Rethinking the 'Intermedi' for 'La pellegrina'
(1589): Music and Technology in the Culture of Absolutism
Conference
May 31, 2003
Nations and Identities: Knowledges and Technologies
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows Conference
314 Royce Hall