March 2012
Tropical Medical Discourse and Victorian Imperialism: Rudyard Kipling and Cholera
2012 Burdick-Vary Event. Part of Lecture Series: "International Perspectives on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences" Pablo Mukherjee English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK The Victorian period saw the growth and…
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City Powdering: Materiality, Pedagogy, and Sexuality in Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term
Lecture: James Bromley Solmsen Fellow (2014-2015) English, Miami University In my talk, I will examine the representation of the epistemological and material construction of urban sexuality in Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term, what the play…
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The Work of Sex in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Gerard & Kelly’s Kisses
2015 Gender Studies and the Humanities Lecture: Elizabeth Freeman English, University of California, Davis The lecture analyzes how Tino Sehgal's museum installation "Kiss" establishes the normative temporal scheme of contemporary heterosexual sex, and how…
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: An Evening with Writer Charles Yu
2016 Burdick-Vary Event: Charles Yu Author and Screenwriter What do cowboy robots, hapless yeomen, time machine repairmen, and third class superheroes have in common? They all issue from the imagination of Charles Yu. Charles Yu is…
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Limits of Racebending in the Struggle for Asian American Representation
2016 Burdick-Vary Lecture: Lori Kido Lopez Communication Arts, UW-Madison Studies of fandom and fan culture have always centered on the complex feelings of fascination and frustration that motivate audiences. When we consider the way…
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