Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Series
Nations and Identities: Minorities, Majorities, and the Question of Civil Society
Claire McEachern, Convener, Department of English, UCLA
Andrew W. Mellon 2003-05 Postdoctoral Fellows:
Hala Halim (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 2003, UCLA)
Marc Lerner (Ph.D. in Modern Western European History, 2003, Columbia University)
Stefania Tutino (Ph.D. in History, 2003, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
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)
Seminars
Seminars take place Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
in the Herbert Morris Seminar Room, 306 Royce Hall
October 28, 2003 (Note: this seminar takes
place on a Tuesday)
Patrick Geary, UCLA
Nationalisms Medieval and Modern
December 8, 2003
Margaret Jacob, UCLA
Glimpses of the Cosmopolitan and Early Modern
Stock Exchanges
January 26, 2004
Stefania Tutino, UCLA Humanities Consortium
Religion and Politics in Early Modern England:
Confessional Polemic, Political Propaganda, Cultural Stereotypes
February 9, 2004
Richard Helgerson, UC Santa Barbara
New Poetry: Empire and Cultural Alienation
in Sixteenth-Century Europe
March 9, 2004
Tom Nairn, Globalism Research Institute,
RMIT University
Redeeming the Time: Old and New Nationalism
March 15, 2004
Marc Lerner, UCLA Humanities Consortium
Switzerland: Anomaly or Model? The Building
of a National Political Culture in the Age of Revolution
April 19, 2004
Hala Halim, UCLA Humanities Consortium
Cosmopolitanisms, Levantinism and Shami Self-perception
in 20th Century Egypt
May 10, 2004
Mary Poovey, New York University
Money and Civil Society: Local Currencies,
Merchant Capital and the Constitution of ‘Great Britain’
Conference
May 21-22, 2004
Nations and Identities: Minorities, Majorities, and the Question
of Civil Society
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows Conference
314 Royce Hall