2008 - 2009 Nicholson Calendar
Autumn Quarter
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Classics 110
4:00 - 6:00pm
Join us for food, wine, beer, and fun. Professors, graduates, undergraduates, and members of the public are welcome.
Department of English Graduate Student Conference:
"Strange Reading"
October 10 - 11, 2008
Rosenwald 405
http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/strangereading/
Keynote Speaker: Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University
This conference is sponsored by the English Department, with support from the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Center for Gender Studies, the Division of the Humanities, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
Mark Salber Phillips Lecture, Reception, and Workshop (Professor, Carleton University)
October 30 - 31, 2008
October 30, 2008: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow:
"Distance and Visual Representation: the
18th-Century 'Revolution of History Painting' Revisited"
October 31, 2008: 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Rosenwald 405, discussion of pre-circulated paper co-sponsored by the 18th/19th Century Cultures and Early Modern workshops:***
"Contrasts"
Graduate Fellowship Competition, Fall Deadline
Applications due November 7, 2008
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Bernard Porter (University of Newcastle) Lecture
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow:
"The After-Image of Empire”
This event is co-sponsored by the Empires and Colonies workshop.
Kajri Jain Lecture, Reception, and Workshop (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto)
November, 2008
November, 2008: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture (title TBA) with reception to follow
November, 2008: discussion of pre-circulated paper (time, location, title, and workshop TBA):***
Vaughan Williams and His Circle: A Song Recital
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Fulton Recital Hall (4th floor of Goodspeed Hall, 1010 E. 59th St.)
12:15pm
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Williams' death, pianist Daniel Schlosberg (University of Notre Dame) and baritone Ryan de Ryke will present rarely heard works by Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, W. Denis Browne, and Ravel. This event is co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies and the Music Department.
Conference:
"Brazen and Golden: Political Thought in British Philosophy, History and Literature"
December 4 - 5, 2008
Location and times TBA
Keynote Speakers: Ian Donaldson, University of Melbourne; J.G.A. Pocock, Johns Hopkins University; Quentin Skinner, University of Cambridge
Exploring the topic of political thought in British philosophy, history, and literature, this two-day interdisciplinary conference is imagined in part as a way to remember and honor the work of John Wallace. His collection, The Golden and Brazen World: Papers in Literature and History, 1650–1800, marked one stage in the now decades-long interdisciplinary conversation that has brought literary critics and historians together through a shared interest in the textual organization and transmission of political ideas.
We see the conference as contributing to this conversation in two ways. Locally, we wish to make political thought even more visible as a field of research for our students, by capitalizing on the momentum generated by ongoing work in the field, whether by individual scholars or in collections such as Derek Hirst and Richard Strier's Writing and Political Engagement in Seventeenth-Century England (1999) or, more recently, David Armitage's British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory, 1500–1800 (2006). Second, we wish to address more directly than has been done in the literature the implications of disciplinary specificity for a collaborative scholarly engagement with political thought. In addressing this question, we wish to avoid assumptions about any a priori methodological differences among political theorists, literary critics, and historians (however real these are in practice). Instead, taking our cue from John Wallace's memorable contributions to a theory of literary exemplarity, we would like to think collectively about the disciplines' different relationship to the example, in order to ask how (both in history and for the history of political thought) an event or fiction, a particular text, or a particular category comes to be taken as a case and in that way enter the stream of history and of thought.
This conference is organized by the Nicholson Center with support from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
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Winter Quarter
Clark Gilpin Lecture, Reception, and Workshop (Professor, University of Chicago)
January 19 and 22, 2009
January 19, 2009: 5:00pm, discussion of pre-circulated paper in joint meeting of Early Modern and Renaissance workshops (location and title TBA)***
January 22, 2009: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture (title TBA) with reception to follow
Peyton Skipwith (former director, Fine Arts Society, London): Lecture and Workshop
January 29, 2009
Time, title and location TBA
Peyton Skipwith's visit will coincide with an exhibition at the Smart Museum (November 18, 2008 - April 19, 2009) entitled “The ‘Writing' of Modern Life: Literature and the Etching Revival in Britain, France, and the United States, 1850-1940”, as well as a Winter Quarter graduate course (ENG 42303) with the same title.
Christopher Pinney Lecture, Reception, and Workshop (Prof., University College, London)
Winter, 2009
Winter, 2009: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow:
"The Collapse of Distance: Photography and Telegraphy in Colonial India"
Winter, 2009: discussion of pre-circulated paper (time, location, title, and workshop TBA):***
Conference:
Anscombe's Intention
Winter, 2009
Times, dates, and location TBA
It has been fifty years since the British philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe published her monograph Intention. Despite the fact that it spent several decades out of print, the book has inspired widespread admiration; in the last decade, philosophers of action have taken a renewed interest in Anscombe's doctrine of practical knowledge. The conference will explore the relationship between practical knowledge and practical reasoning, and, in general, the relationship between the epistemology and metaphysics of action. We are particularly interested in Anscombe's claim, in section 19 of Intention, that, “We do not add anything attaching to the action at the time it is done by describing it as intentional,” and therefore also with her rejection of what she calls “the standard approach” in the philosophy of action, whereby we first isolate a genus, such as event, under which action falls, and then ask what distinguishes action from everything else of the same genus. We will be concerned with such questions as these: Is there a distinctive form of action description, as Anscombe believed—and if so, what is it? What is it to be an agent? What is it to do one thing for the sake of doing another? And what is it to know why one acts?
This conference is organized by The Department of Philosophy, with support from the Committee on Social Thought, the Wittgenstein Workshop, the Philosophy of Mind Workshop, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, the Late Liberalism Project, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
Christopher Bayly (Cambridge University): Lecture and Workshop
Winter or Spring, 2009
Times, titles and locations TBA
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Spring Quarter
Carolyn Steedman (Warwick University): Lecture and Workshop
March 31 - April 1, 2009
Times, titles and locations TBA
J. H. Prynne Visit
April 13 - 17, 2009
Times, locations, and events TBA
Poet, British Poetry Revival
Co-sponsored with Poem Present and the Poetics Program
Graduate Fellowship Competition, Spring Deadline
Applications due April 17, 2009
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Graduate Initiative Competition
Letters of Intent Due: Friday, April 24, 2009
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Empire, Modernity, and the British Social Sciences: 1700-1950
April 24 - 25, 2009
Franke Seminar Room (times TBA)
Keynote Speakers: Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania), Sudipta Sen (UC Davis)
The study of the emergence of the social sciences in Britain has for the most part been insular, marginalizing comparative work on continental Europe as well as a serious consideration of the impact of the imperial periphery on metropolitan theory. This two-day conference aims to relocate the emergence of the British social sciences within a broader transnational context, by considering the circulation of key concepts and practice both between core and periphery and among the emergent disciplines themselves. In order to explore the diverse ways in which society came to be conceived as an object of study, we propose to focus on the development of methodological instruments such as fieldwork and surveys and on a few central topics, including poverty and the relation between caste and class. To what degree was the empire a subtext for metropolitan accounts of modernity? To what degree did the empire serve as a tool box from which concepts could be appropriated by the emerging disciplines? In such contexts, how was society increasingly conceptualized as having its own laws and rhythms, as distinct from economy, politics and culture?
Click here for the call for papers.
This Nicholson Center conference is made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Schaffner Visiting Professor Lecture
Simon Goldhill (Cambridge)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
"The Cotswolds in Jerusalem: Cultural Distance and the Politics of Empire"
4:30pm, Classics 110
Undergraduate Travel Grant Competition
Applications due May 1, 2009
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Undergraduate Senior Essay Competition
Applications due May 1, 2009
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Ruth Solie Lecture, Reception, and Workshop (Professor, Smith College)
May 13 - 14, 2009
May 13, 2009: discussion of pre-circulated paper in joint meeting of 18th/19th Century Cultures and Gender Studies workshops (location and title TBA)***
May 14, 2009: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture (title TBA) with reception to follow
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