The UCLA Humanities Consortium

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Series

Nations and Identities: The Secularization Thesis

 

Andrew W. Mellon 2004-2005 Postdoctoral Fellows:
Sarah Kareem (Ph.D. in English, 2003, Harvard University)
Ellen Koehler (Ph.D. in Modern European History, 2002, UC Davis)

 

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)

 

 

Seminars

Seminars take place Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
in the Herbert Morris Seminar Room, 306 Royce Hall

 

December 6, 2004

William Hagen, UC Davis

The Moral Economy of Popular Violence: The Pogrom in Lemberg/Lwol/L’viv, November 1918

 

January 31, 2005

David Hall, Harvard University

Tocqueville's Informants; or, Ideological Aspects of ‘Church and State’ in American Culture

 

March 7, 2005

Caroline Ford, UCLA Department of History

Between the Public and Private: De-secularization, Laïcité and the Challenge of Islam in Modern France

 

March 15, 2005 (Note: this seminar takes place on a Tuesday)

Hartmut Lehmann, Göttingen University

A Reexamination of the Secularization Thesis

 

April 25, 2005

Sarah Kareem, UCLA Humanities Consortium

The Magic Circle: Superstition and Poetic Faith in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics

 

May 2, 2005

Ellen Koehler, UCLA Humanities Consortium

The Paradox of Secularization and ‘Laïcisation’ in Nineteenth-Century France

 

May 23, 2005

Randolph Head, UC Riverside

Early Secularism Next to Persistent Confessionalism? Reflections on Religious and National Identity from an Early Modern Swiss Perspective

 

 

Conference

 

May 20, 2005
Nations and Identities: The Secularization Thesis
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows Conference
314 Royce Hall