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Schedule for 2008 - 2009

Disenchantment

 

Fall Semester 2008

Thursday, September 11 – Opening Reception, 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Friday, September 12 – Reading Group: Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2007), Preface, Prologue, Chapter 1: “Epistemologies of the Eye” (pp. 9–54).1:30 – 3:00 PM, Heller 737. In conjunction with the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.

Friday, September 19 – Lecture: “Bólatú’s Theriac in Early Modern China,” Carla Nappi, History and Philosophy, Montana State University. 12:15 – 1:30 PM, Ford Room, 710 Social Sciences. Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Program in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and the University of Minnesota Center for Early Modern History.

Reading Group: Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2007), Chapter 2: “Truth-to-Nature” (pp. 55–114). 1:30 – 3:00 PM, Heller 737. In conjunction with the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.

Thursday, September 25 – Reading Group: Max Weber, “Science as Vocation.” 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Friday, September 26 – Reading Group: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), Introduction. 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Nolte 335.

Reading Group: Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2007), Chapter 3: “Mechanical Objectivity” (pp. 115–190). 1:30 – 3:00 PM, Heller 737. In conjunction with the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.

Thursday, October 9 – Work in Progress Session: "Icon Transit," Christopher Heuer, Art History, Princeton University. 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Friday, October 10 – Lecture: “Raumbild as Aporia: The Figure of Netherlandish Pilgrimage Portraits,” Christopher Heuer, Art History, Princeton University. 2:30 – 4:00 PM, Blegen 260.

Reading Group: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), Part I, Chapter 1. 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Nolte 335.

Reading Group: Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2007), Chapter 4: “The Scientific Self” (pp. 191–252). 1:30 – 3:00 PM, Heller 737. In conjunction with the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.

Thursday, October 16 – Lab Session: “The Alchemist's Body: Spiritual and Artisanal Engagements with Nature in Early Modern Europe,” Tara Nummedal, History, Brown University. 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Friday, October 17 - Lecture: “Kunst and Cabala: Anna Zieglerin's Alchemical Secrets,” Tara Nummedal, History, Brown University. 3:30 – 5:00 PM, 131 Tate Lab of Physics. In conjunction with the University of Minnesota Program in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Friday, October 24 – Reading Group: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), Part I, Chapters 2-3. 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, NSeptember 3, 2009ne Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2007), Chapter 5: “Structural Objectivity” (pp. 253–308). 1:30 – 3:00 PM, Heller 737. In conjunction with the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday, October 29 - Lecture: “Framing Sexuality in the 16th Century: An Ottoman Poet's Vision of Desire and Sexual Conduct,” Selim Kuru, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of Washington. 5:00 - 6:30 PM, 135 Nicholson Hall. Co-Sponsored with the Workshop in Islamic Societies and Cultures.

Thursday, October 30 – Work in Progress Session: “Sex in the Text,” Selim Kuru, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of Washington. 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235. Co-Sponsored with the Workshop in Islamic Societies and Cultures.

Thursday, November 13 – Lab Session: Juliette Cherbuliez and Michael Gaudio, “Ekphrasis.” Ovid's, story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela, and Diego Velazquez', The Fable of Arachne . 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Friday, November 14 – Reading Group: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), Part I, Chapters 4-5 . 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Nolte 335.

Reading Group: Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2007), Chapter 6: “Trained Judgment” (pp. 309–362). 1:30 – 3:00 PM, Heller 737. In conjunction with the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.

THANKSGIVING – November 27

Thursday, December 4 – Work in Progress Session: “Disenchantment and Authorship in 17th-Century France,” Ellen McClure, French, University of Illinois at Chicago. 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Friday, December 5 – Reading Group: Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2007), Chapter 7: “Representation To Presentation” (pp. 363–416). 1:30 – 3:00 PM, Heller 737. In conjunction with the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.

Friday, December 12 - Reading Group: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), Part II, Chapters 1-2. 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Nolte 335.

Spring Semester 2009

Thursday, January 22 – Lecture: “Wastelands and Wilderness,” Peter Galison, History of Science, Harvard University. 4:00 – 5:30 PM, Nolte 125. In conjunction with the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.

Friday, January 23 – Reading Group: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), Part III, Chapters 1-4. 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Nolte 335.

Book Discussion with Author: Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2007), with Peter Galison, History of Science, Harvard University. 1:30 – 3:00 PM, Heller 737. In conjunction with the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.

Thursday, January 29 – Reading Group: Georges Didi-Huberman, Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art (the English translation of Devant l’image: questions posées aux fins d'une histoire de l'art. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1990). 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Thursday, February 5 – Work in Progress Seminar: “Unfaithful Lovers and Malicious Sorcerers: Justice, Punishment and the Body in Sixteenth-Century Michoacán, Mexico,” Angelica Afanador Pujol, Art History, University of Minnesota. 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Tuesday, February 10 - Reinhart Koselleck Reading Group: Situating Koselleck’s Work. 5:00 - 6:30, Nolte 335

Thursday, February 12 – Work in Progress Seminar: “The Super Enlightenment,” Dan Edelstein, French and Italian, Stanford University. 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235. In conjunction with the Department of French and Italian.

Friday, February 13 -- Lecture: “Was the Enlightenment French?” Dan Edelstein, French and Italian, Stanford University. Time, Place TBA. In conjunction with the Department of French and Italian.

Tuesday, February 24 - Reinhart Koselleck Reading Group: Concerning Temporality. 5:00 - 6:30, Nolte 335.

Thursday, March 5 – Work in Progress Session: “Metamorphosis and Non-Identity: Shape-Shifting and Magical Transformation Reconsidered,” Stuart McLean,Anthropology, University of Minnesota. 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Friday, March 6 – Reading Group: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), Part IV, Chs. 2-3. 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Nolte 335.

Tuesday, March 10- Reinhart Koselleck Reading Group: Prophecy, Prognosis, & Expectation . 5:00 - 6:30, Nolte 335.

SPRING BREAK – March 16-20

Thursday, March 26 – Work in Progress Session: "Sublimity and Periodization," Bali Sahota , Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota. 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Friday, March 27 – Reading Group: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), Part V, Ch. 1. 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Nolte 335.

Thursday, April 2 – Work in Progress Seminar: "Human/Nature and Social Difference: Social Analysis of the Ottoman Empire by Nicolas de Nicolay," Chandra Mukerji, Communication Studies, University of California, San Diego. 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Friday, April 3 -- Lecture: "Impersonal Rule: Logistical Power and the Canal du Midi," Chandra Mukerji, Communication Studies, University of California, San Diego. 3:30 – 5:00 PM, 131 Tate Lab of Physics. In conjunction with the University of Minnesota Program in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Friday, April 10 – Reading Group: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), Part V, Chs. 2-3. 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Nolte 335.

Tuesday, April 14 - Reinhart Koselleck Reading Group: Crisis, Revolution, and Utopia. 5:00 - 6:30, Nolte 335.

Thursday, April 16 –CANCELLED - Lab Session, “Disenchantment in Nicolas Poussin’s “Four Seasons” series (c. 1640).” 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Thursday-Friday, April 23-24 – Symposium: “The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert.” Faculty-Graduate student workshop in conjunction with the ARTFL Encyclopedia Consortium. (University of Chicago, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Minnesota). Nicholson 235.

Friday, April 24 – Reading Group: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), Part V, Chs. 4-5. 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Nolte 335.

Thursday, April 30 – 6th Annual Graduate Student Roundtable. "Fred Wilson's Unnatural Histories," Anna Chisholm, Department of Art History; "The Impious Phantasm of Spinozism: Spinoza in England 1738-1854," Joe Hughes, Department of English; "Stalking (with) the Future Primitive: Remarks on Research and Risk," Harlan Morehouse, Department of Geography. 5:00 – 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Tuesday, May 5 - Reinhart Koselleck Reading Group: Remarks on Terror and the Ineffable. 5:00 - 6:30, Nolte 335.

Wednesday, May 13 – Reading Group: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), Part V, Ch. 6 and Epilogue. 12:00 - 2:00 PM, Town Hall Brewery. Please RSVP to J.B. Shank so that the proper number of seats can be reserved.

We will also sponsor two additional reading groups in conjunction with our theme during the 2008-2009 academic year. The dates, times, locations, and assignments for these reading groups will be determined later. Information regarding them will be available once the details are determined.

Spring Semester 2009 Reading Group: Walter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama (the English translation of Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels. Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1928).

Spring Semester 2009 Reading Group: Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time. Keith Tribe trans. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).

PAPERS WILL CIRCULATE IN ADVANCE. Readings for each session will be available as .pdf files on the TEMS website http://tems.umn.edu/, and in hard copy in Heller Hall 338 and Folwell Hall 255.