Previous Faculty Research Forums
Previous Faculty Research Forums
February 13, 2009
David Anderson, Department of English
"Exile and Cultural Inheritance in the Short Fiction of Jan Carew"
Jan Carew is one of the leading Caribbean intellectuals of the last half-century. Novelist, playwright, actor, film maker, government official, historian, and professor, Carew has spent his career examining Caribbean history and its rich varieties of culture, and searching for literary strategies to represent that richness. Professor Anderson’s talk will discuss Carew’s latest collection of short fiction, The Guyanese Wanderer, focusing on the many meanings of exile (historical, physical, and cultural) in Carew’s fiction, but also the themes of return and cultural reclamation that are central to this collection.
Pictured: Jan Carew
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March 27, 2009
Co-presenters:
Cate Fosl, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research & Jennifer Gregg, Department of Communication
"New Media and Social Movement Building: Climbing Louisville's Digital Divide"
Drs. Fosl and Gregg will discuss the processes and outcomes of their 1-year community-based research project conducted in partnersahip with a local grassroots organization, KY Jobs with Justice. The focus of their research was twofold: a) to learn more about barriers to local internet acess experienced by marginalized and people-of-color neighborhoods in Louisville; and b) to explore how and how effectively the internet and other new media are used in social justice organizing efforts locally.
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April 10, 2009
Annual Book Party
The Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society and the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office presents the Annual Book Party, honoring those who have published books since April 2008.
December 5, 2008
"How are White People Reproduced?"
Presented by David Owen Department of Philosophy
A critique of the concept of white privilege is that it relies on an inadequate conception of power and this undermines its own antiracist purpose. In this presentation, Professor Owen argues that this critique is based on a misunderstanding of the concept of white privilege. He also argues that white privilege needs to be distinguished from the concept of whiteness, where white privilege is understood as an effect of the racialized structuring of the mechanisms of sociocultural reproduction. In order effectively to disrupt the reproduction of whiteness, we need to look past its effects (white privilege) and analyze the mechanisms by which it is maintained. Professor Owen will discuss briefly what such an account would look like, and what its implications are for antiracist practices.
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October 24, 2008
"Off the Map: Geographical and Ideological Erasures in Brokeback Mountian"
Presented by Tom Byers, Department of English and Director of the Commonwealth Center for the
Humanities and Society at the University of Louisville
In constructing its implicit argument for gay marriage, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountian sets heteronormative limits to the forms of gay life it can countence. It follows a strategy of making acceptable "the other that is the same" by excluding more radical versions of otherness. These exclusions are revealed in the film's geography, not only in its depiction of Mexico as a sordid other both literally and figuratively outside the border, but also in its erasure of another alternative space, Denver, which is mentioned in Annie Proulx's story but not in the film's script.
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September 26, 2008
"From Natural Rights to Equal Opportunity: The Defeat of the Radical Abolitionist Ideal and the Emergence of Progressivism"
Presented by John Cumbler, Department of History, University of Louisville
This year the Faculty Research Forum will be a joint project of CCHS and the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, highlighting a range of justice-themed research on various social and historical issues.
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April 25, 2008
End-of-Term Celebration and Book Party
A Party sponsored by the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society celebrating the end of the term and honoring those in the College of Arts and Sciences who had recently published a book.
March 28, 2008
"Virginia Woolf Among Lunatics"
Presented by Suzette Henke, Department of English
Please note: Prof. Henke's presentation will serve as the Keynote Address for Crossing Borders: Interdisciplinary Study in the Arts and Humanities. This presentation will take place in the Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library at 3:30 p.m. There will be a reception in Bingham Humanites 300 immediately following the presentation.
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February 8, 2008
"Literary or Postcolonial? Notes on literature and its unfamiliars in the writings of J.M. Coetzee, Marlene Nourbese Philip, and Dionne Brand"
Presented by Simona Bertacco, Assistant Professor, Universita' di Milano and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Louisville
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January 18, 2008
"Dominion and Property: An Archeology of Roman Law"
Presented by Professor A.J. Slavin, Humanities Professor Emeritus
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