2007 - 2008 Events (Click here for an events list ordered by date rather than subject) Fellowships & Competitions Lecture Series Graduate Initiative University of Chicago Presents Concert: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble Fri, Oct. 5, 2007, 7:30, Mandel Hall Kenneth Sillito, leader Concert featuring Dvorak's String Sextet, op. 48; Shostakovich's Two Pieces for String Octet, op. 11; and Mendelssohn's Octet, op. 20 Opening Reception Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Classics 110 4:00 - 6:00pm Join us for food, wine, beer, and fun. Professors, graduates, undergraduates, and members of the public are welcome. Conference: Reflections on Common Sense Friday, October 19, 2007 10:00am - 4:00pm, Harper 140 The Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures are happy to welcome Vincent Descombes as a regular visiting professor and as keynote speaker at the conference. Other guest speakers include John Greco, Roger Pouivet, and Thomas Pavel. A complete conference schedule can be found on the France Chicago Center's Calendar. This conference is being generously sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, the France Chicago Center, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies. Chicago Chorale Concert: "A Cappella Music for All Saints" November 3, 2007 Hyde Park Union Church (5600 S. Woodlawn Ave.), 8:00pm The Chicago Chorale will perform Herbert Howells' Requiem, Bach's "Jesu, meine Freude" and Henry Purcell's "Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our Hearts." A short talk by David Bevington on the background of the various pieces' historical periods will precede the concert. For more information, see the Chicago Chorale's website. Conference: North American Conference on British Studies November 11 - 12, 2007 Crowne Plaza Union Square, San Francisco, CA Following the NACBS conference (November 9 - 11), there will be a mini-conference for students, postdocs, and faculty members of Chicago, Yale and Berkeley. Generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the mini-conference will include broad theoretical discussions centered around two pre-circulated papers, as well as group discussions of advanced level graduate student mock cover letters, and one-on-one faculty/student discussions of graduate prospectuses. To register for the North American conference, click here. For more information on the mini-conference that will follow it, contact Eva Wilhelm at ewilhelm@uchicago.edu. For information on our series of conferences on Britain's political economy, click here. Course: ENGL 63810. 'The Collision of Mind with Mind':  Conversation, Controversy, and Literature 1780-1822 Taught by Schaffner Visiting Professor Jon Mee, this PhD seminar will meet various Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout winter and spring quarters. Click here for more information. David Armitage Workshop (Professor of History, Harvard) February 6, 2008, 10:30am, Rosenwald 405 Pre-circulated paper: "Shakespeare's Properties" University of Chicago Presents Concert: Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano; Julius Drake, piano Fri, Feb. 15, 2008, Mandel Hall 6:30: Pre-concert conversation between U of C Associate Professor of Music Berthold Hoeckner and Julius Drake 7:30: Concert featuring works by Roger Quilter, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Sir Edward Elgar Jessica Morgan Lecture (Curator, Tate Museum, London) February 22, 2008, 4:30pm, CWAC 157 (title TBA) Co-sponsored with the Department of Visual Arts Lecture by Stanley Wells, CBE (Chairman, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) "The Limitations of the First Folio" April 1, 2008, 4:30pm, Rosenwald 405 Co-sponsored with the English Department and the Renaissance Workshop Myles Burnyeat Lecture, Reception, and Workshop (Professor, Robinson College, Cambridge) April 9, 2008, 4:30pm, Classics 26, Mr. Burnyeat will lead a workshop on the topic "How Far is it Important to Know in What Order Plato and Aristotle Wrote Their Many Works?" Co-sponsored by the Ancient Philosophy workshop*** April 10, 2008, 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow: "Justice Writ Large and Small in Republic IV" The second of a 2-lecture series co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center and the Philosophy Dept.   -back to top- 2006 - 2007 Fellowships and Competitions Graduate Initiative Competition Applications due: Friday, September 7, 2007 Seeking proposals for British Studies related projects to be organized by graduate students and funded by the Nicholson Center. Contact Eva via e-mail or phone (773-834-3403) for more information. Long Term Graduate Fellowship Competition Applications due November 9, 2007 Click here for more details   Short Term GRADUATE Fellowship Competition Applications due April 18, 2008 Click here for more details Graduate Initiative Competition Letters of Intent Due: Friday, April 25 The Nicholson Center for British Studies invites applications from interested graduate students for its 2008-2009 Graduate Initiative Project. Projects should be related to British Studies broadly conceived (including topics related to the former colonies), and should be targeted toward graduate students: possibilities include, but are not limited to, conferences, colloquia, bag lunches, and lectures by external visitors. The Nicholson Center is especially interested in funding events that, across departmental and divisional boundaries, bring at least two workshops into conversation with one another, through an event or conversation or series of conversations that promise to be of interest to more than one disciplinary constituency at the University.  All graduate initiative events funded by the Center are to be planned and organized by the students. Submit a one-page letter of intent via e-mail attachment to Eva Wilhelm at ewilhelm@uchicago.edu. Contact Eva via e-mail or phone (773-834-3403) for more information. UNDERGRADUATE Travel Grant Competition Applications due May 2, 2008 Click here for more details Undergraduate Senior Essay Competition Applications due May 2, 2008 Click here for more details -back to top- 2007 - 2008 Lecture Series "Making the Secular: Lectures in the Formation of Knowledge"

All lectures are free and open to the public.

John Kerrigan (St. John's College, Cambridge, Shakespeare and early modern literature, especially the interaction between cultural history and British-Irish state formation; textual scholarship; poetry since Wordsworth)

October 15, 2007: 5:00pm, Rosenwald 405, discussion of pre-circulated paper co-sponsored by the Renaissance workshop:***

"Devolving Interdisciplinarity, 1603-1707"

October 18, 2007: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow:

"Archipelagic Macbeth"

Robert Fogelin (Dartmouth University, skepticism, Hume, Wittgenstein)

The first of a two-lecture series co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center and the Philosophy Dept.

October 25, 2007: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow:

"Hume's Multiple Voices"

October 26, 2007: 4:30pm - 6:00pm, Stuart 209, Professor Fogelin will lead a close reading of Book I, Part IV, sections 3 and 4 of Hume's Treatise, co-sponsored by the Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Early Modern Philosophy workshops:***

"Hume on Ancient and Modern Philosophy"

Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, modern Indian social and political history, modern Bengal, labor history, Asian studies, philosophical discourses of modernity, Marxism, poststructuralism, deconstruction and postmodernism, and postcolonial theory)

January 17, 2008: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow:

"Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History"

Schaffner Visiting Professor

Jon Mee (University of Warwick, Romanticism, literature and film, post-colonial literature)

January 30, 2008: 4:30pm, Franke seminar room, lecture with reception to follow:

"To the End of the Conversible World: Conversation and Romanticism"

Lecture companion readings (encouraged, but not required): Godwin's Political Justice, 'Of Political Associations'; Godwin's Enquirer, 'Preface'; Godwin's Enquirer, 'Of Politeness'; Godwin's Enquirer, 'Of Choice in Reading'; Watts' Improvement of the Mind, 'Observation, Reading...'

Harold Berman (Emory University, world law; the Western legal tradition; comparative legal history)

February 28-29, 2008

Talk cancelled.

Professor Berman passed away on November 13, 2007. The Nicholson Center extends our condolences to his family.

Lesley Stern (University of California at San Diego, film theory and history;performance;cultural history and feminism)

May 14, 2008: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow:

"The Garden (Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta): Memory, History, Writing"

May 15, 2008: 10:30am - 12:30pm, Cobb 310, workshop discussion of pre-circulated paper co-sponsored by the Mass Culture workshop:***

"How Movies Move: Between Hong Kong and Bulawayo, Between Screen and Stage..."

Sharon Marcus (Columbia University, 19th-century British and French literature; feminist and sexual theory; urban and architectural history )

May 28, 2008: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow:

"At Home with the Other Victorians"

May 29, 2008: 10:30am - 12:00pm, Rosenwald 405, discussion of pre-circulated paper co-sponsored by the 18th/19th Century Cultures workshop:***

"The Novel and Provincial Life"

***Please contact Eva Wilhelm at ewilhelm@uchicago.edu to participate in any of the workshop discussions

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Graduate Initiative

Poetry Reading, Workshop, and Lecture: Simon Jarvis
Organized by Joshua Adams (Comp Lit), Bobby Baird (Divinity School), and Joshua Kotin (English)
Simon Jarvis is the Gorley Putt Senior Lecturer in English Literary History at the University of Cambridge. Professor Jarvis specializes in eighteenth-century and Romantic poetry, philosophical aesthetics, and theories of verse and versification. He is the author of three books: Shakespearean Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour, 1725-1765 (Oxford, 1995), Adorno: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 1998), and, most recently, Wordsworth’s Philosophic Song (Cambridge, 2006). Professor Jarvis is also a poet; his book-length lyric, The Unconditional, was published by Barque Press in 2005.

Event 1: Poetry reading
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
6:00pm, Rosenwald 405
Mr. Jarvis will read selections from his recently published book, The Unconditional, as well as some new work. A reception will follow.

Event 2: Poetry and Poetics Workshop
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
12:00pm, Rosenwald 405
Mr. Jarvis will lead a workshop on his current work.

Event 3: Lecture: "Why Rhyme Pleases"
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
5:00pm, Rosenwald 405
Dinner will follow.

These events are generously co-sponsored by Chicago Review and Poem Present.

Lecture by John Beattie: "Policing Eighteenth Century London"
Organized by John Acevedo (History)
Monday, May 19th
5:00pm, Classics 110
John Beattie is a Professor Emeritus of History and Criminology at the University of Toronto. He specialises in early modern English social history, history of crime and criminal administration in England. He is currently writing a book, tentatively titled The First English Detectives: the Rise and Fall of the Bow Street Runners, which will concentrate on Bow Street over the ninety years of its history, from 1750 to 1849. The work carried out by the Bow Street officers has yet to be explored; of particular interest is the process by which suspected offenders were discovered and apprehended - the work of detection. Other areas of interest are the form taken by preliminary hearings at Bow Street into criminal offences, the extent to which the officers helped to prepare cases for trial, and the part they played in trials at the Old Bailey. Selected other publications include Policing and Punishment in London: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Princeton University Press, 1986).

This event is generously co-sponsored by the Early Modern workshop and the Law School.

Associate Professor Bradin Cormack
Director, Center For British Studies
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
USA

phone: (773) 702-8910
email: bcormack@uchicago.edu

Eva Wilhelm
Administrator
Classics 114
Phone: (773) 834-3403
email: ewilhelm@uchicago.edu