Jesse L. Rosenberger Work-in-Progress Seminar Series

The Center began hosting a regular, bi-weekly lunchtime seminar series in January 2016. This series includes presentations by the Center’s faculty fellows.

2024-2025 seminars include:

  • 9/18 – Cilas Kemedjio: “Frederick Douglass’s legacies: Humanitarian Fallacies, Intertextual Networks and Pan-Africanist Solidarities in Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie”
  • 10/1- Daly Arnett: “When a Creature Draws: the Anti-Cultural in Postwar Francophone Thought”
  • 10/16 – Richard Fadok: “Architecture’s Ornithologics: Bird-Friendly Design and the Ethics of Indexicality”
  • 10/29 - Anu Ahmed: “Recovering (through) a counter-ethics in ‘mad’ repetitions”
  • 11/13 – Tingting Xu: "A Screen So Grand: Coromandel Screens from the Perspective of Scale" 
  • 12/3 – Jon Catlin: "Germany after Gaza: Race, Religion, and the Failures of Holocaust Memory"
  • 2/4 – John Givens: "The Anxiety of Belief in Russian Cinema"
  • 2/19 - Stefanie Dunning: "The Third Life of Zora Neale Hurston: Tracking the Unspoken in Black Women's Archives" 
  • 3/4 - Ben Baker: “The Jacob Collier Problem? The Curious Case of an Online Musical Maximalist”
  • 3/19 - Melanie Chambliss: "Access and Agency: Early Twentieth-Century Black Libraries and a New "Epoch" in the Diffusion of Knowledge"
  • 4/1 - Tanya Bakhmetyeva: “The Politburo Goes Hunting: Masculinity and Power among the Soviet Political Elite” 
  • 4/16 - Nader Sayadi: "The Art of “Non-Western Civilizations” and Soft Imperialism in 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, NY, 1954-1961"
  • 4/29 – Meliora Scholars (James Kinde, "Vice Versatile: Female to Male Transsexuals before Transgender liberation", Spencer Dittelman, "Reactionary Writing: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Anthony Trollope")