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Faculty Research Forums 2011-2012

Faculty Research Forum is a venue where colleagues try out or report on their scholarly or creative work to interdisciplinary audiences. Commonly FRF meets once a month on Friday at 3:30, following the Arts and Sciences Faculty Assembly, almost always in Bingham Humanities Room 300. It includes a presentation followed by a lively Q&A, fueled by various sorts of refreshments.

Faculty Research Forum, an ongoing project of the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society (CCHS), offers research-based talks for an interdisciplinary audience by UofL faculty and occasional guests. 

Faculty Research Forums are open to all: faculty, students, staff, and the public.



Friday, January 27, 2012 
Dismas Masolo, Philosophy Department,
"Reading Shaaban Robert"
3:30 p.m., Bingham Humanities, Room 300

Masolo Pic
Convinced that the post-post colonial condition is long overdue, Masolo's current interests are to generate local debates through readings of indigenous authors and intellectuals.  It is in this light that he engages in the translation into English of this prominent East African writer's works.

Click here to see the flyer for this event.

Friday, February 17, 2012 - Faculty Research Forum presents the 2010 recipients of the Anne Braden Institute Faculty Research Fund Awards.
3:30 p.m., Bingham Humanities, Room 300

Dr. Glenn Crothers (UofL Assoc. Professor of History, Co-Editor Ohio Valley History and Director of Research at The Filson Historical Society)
Dr. Crothers will discuss his project, "Samuel M. Janney and Benjamin Hallowell: Quakers Reformers of the 19th Century U.S. South." His study examines, in part, how Janney and Hallowell pursued a social justice agenda while living in a slave society whose white members had little patience for Quaker efforts.

Dr. Jennie E. Burnet (UofL Asst. Professor of Anthropology) 
Dr. Burnet will present, "Why did they NOT kill?  Rwandan Muslims and Resistance to Genocide."  Her project shines the light on the unexamined area of the motivations of "rescuers" or "resisters" to communal violence.

Dr. Nicole E. Seymour (UofL Visiting Asst. Professor of English)
Dr. Seymour will provide an update on her project titled, "Down with People: Anti-Natalism as Queer Environmentalism?" Her research draws from environmental justice and queer studies to examine areas where environmental concerns overlap with the concerns of sexual minorities such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals. 

March 23, 2012 - tentative, speaker and title TBA
3:30 p.m., Bingham Humanities, Room 300

April 20, 2012 - Annual Book Party.  Details TBA

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