September 22: Maki Isaka Morinaga, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota
“Woman Pretending to Be a Man Pretending to Be a Woman”: Women Actors in the All Male Kabuki Theater”
October 13: Arun Saldanha, Geography, University of Minnesota
“Writing Travels: Jan Huygen van Linschoten's Itinerario and the Historical Geography of Dutch identity,1596-2002”
November 17: Tony C. Brown, English, University of Minnesota
“Kant's Tattooed New Zealanders”
February 16: 3rd Graduate Student Roundtable: Current Research in Early Modern Studies
March 9: Eric Baker, German, Scandinavian and Dutch, University of Minnesota
“Blinded by Science?: The Failure and Success of Edmund Burke's Empiricist Sublime .”
April 13: Kay Dian Kriz, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
“The Aesthetics and Physiognomy of ‘Black Humor:' Graphic Satire and the British West Indies on the Eve of Abolition”