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Schedule for 2012 - 2013

Experiences of the Real

The Theorizing Early Modern Studies (TEMS) Research Collaborative organizes conversations around research in progress by scholars of the early modern period. We welcome everyone, especially faculty and graduate students in the Humanities. The group offers an opportunity for interdisciplinary, collaborative reflection on the relationship between history, literature, the fine arts, philosophy and the sciences, and our discussions are always seasoned with wine and refreshments. TEMS has been funded since 2007 as a University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study Research Collaborative.

Spring Semester 2013

 

Thursday, February 21 – Speculative Realism Reading Group: Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude. An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency. Tr. Ray Brassier. (Continuum, 2008). 3:30-5:00, Nolte 235.

Friday, February 22 - Sovereignty Reading Group: Ernst Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology (Princeton, 1997), pp. 3-86. 12-1:30pm, Heller 1024.

Friday, March 1 -- Political Economy Reading Group: Michel Foucault, Territory, Security, Population, chapters 9-11. 3:30-5:30 PM, Heller 1024.

Thursday, March 7 – Work in Progress Seminar: Cesare Casarino, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. Master, Can't You See I'm Burning? (Or, Spinoza's Dream of the Long Twentieth Century). 5:00-6:30 p.m., Nolte 235.

Thursday, March 7 – Reading Group: Speculative Realism. Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency. Tr. Ray Brassier. (Continuum, 2008). 3:00-5:00 p.m., Folwell 315.

Friday, March 8 – Reading Group: Sovereignty. Ernst Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology (Princeton, 1997), pp. 87-272. 12-1:30 p.m., Heller 1024.

Friday-Saturday, March 15-16 – All-Day Public Workshop on the Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment, 125 Nolte.  Co-Sponsored with the Department of French and Italian and the Center for Early Modern History.

Thursday, March 28 – Reading Group:  Speculative Realism.  Levi Bryant, The Democracy of Objects, (Open Humanities Press, 2011). 3:00-5:00pm, Folwell 315.

Friday, March 29 – Reading Group: Political Economy. Iara Vigo de Lima, "Political Economy as a Paradigmatic and Epistemic Shift," from Foucault's Archaeology of Political Economy (2010). 3:30-5:30 p.m., Heller 1024.

Friday, April 5 – Work in Progress Seminar:  Littérature et sorcellerie: le tournant classico-baroque, Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, (Paris 3).  11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Folwell 317. NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND PLACE

Friday, April 5 – Lecture:  "Civility, Honor, Familiarity: Reflections on the French 17th Century," Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, (Paris 3).  2:30-4:00 p.m., Folwell.

Thursday, April 11 – Reading Group:  Speculative Realism.  Essay by Bernard Stiegler.  3:00-5:00pm, Folwell 315.

Friday, April 19 – Reading Group:  Sovereignty.  Reading TBA. 12-1:30 p.m., Heller 1024.

Thursday, April 25 – Work in Progress Seminar: Between honor and life. Rescue and life-saving in the 18th century, J.F. Lehmann.  Universität Duisburg-Essen.  5:00-6:30 p.m., Nolte 235.
Co-Sponsored with the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch (GSD Graduate Conference)

Thursday, April 25 – Reading Group: Speculative Realism.  Levi Bryant, The Democracy of Objects.  3:00-5:00pm, Folwell 315.

Friday, April 26 – Reading Group:  Political Economy.  Reading "Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, chapters 12-13." 3:30-5:30 p.m., Heller 1024.

Saturday, April 27 – GSD Graduate Student Conference Keynote Lecture:  Currentness. On the history of references to the present in German Literature around 1800, J.F. Lehmann, Universität Duisburg-Essen. 1:30-3:30pm, Influx Space, Regis Center for Art.
Co-Sponsored with the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch (GSD Graduate Conference)

Thursday, May 9 – 10th Annual Graduate Student Roundtable.  "This unnatural War came like a Whirlwind': Remembering and Rebuilding in Margaret Cavendish's Prose, Dana Schumacher-Schmidt, English;  A Bestiary Hunt: Sovereignty and the Memories of Violence in Northeastern Turkey, Murat Altun, Anthropology; The Figuration of Nature in the French Enlightenment, Sean Killackey, French. 5:00-6:30 p.m., Nolte 235.

Friday, May 10 – Lecture:  Epistemic Genres or Styles of Thinking? Tools for the Cultural Histories of Knowledge, Gianna Pomata, History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. 3:30-5:00 p.m., Tate Physics 131.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Colloquium.

PAPERS WILL CIRCULATE IN ADVANCE.  Readings for each session will be available as .pdf files here. Link to the .pdf files by clicking on the paper titles on the TEMS home page or on the “current schedule.”  For an abstract of the paper, click on “current schedule.” Please e-mail Michael Gaudio <gaudio@umn.edu> for more information.

Fall Semester 2012

Thursday, September 13 – Opening Reception. 5:00-6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

 

Thursday, September 20 – Seminar: “The New Metaphysics of Time,” a discussion with Ethan Kleinberg, History, Wesleyan University, Editor of History and Theory.
5:00-6:30 PM, Nolte 235.
Reading will be the special virtual issue of History and Theory

Thursday, September 27 – Work in Progress Seminar: “Birds Eye View” Lynn Festa, English, Rutgers University.
5:00 - 6:30 PM. Nolte 235.
Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian.

Friday September 28 -- Lecture: “The Cook, the Thief, the Knife, and the Other: Possession and Loss in Eighteenth-Century Tahiti.” Lynn Festa, English, Rutgers University.
Time TBA, Folwell 112,
Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian.

Wednesday, October 3 -- Reading Group: Speculative Realism: Meillassoux, After Finitude (pp. vi-viii, 1-49),
3:00-5:00 PM, Nolte 235.

Thursday, October 4 – Reading Group: Sovereignty: Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, pp. TBA.
5:00 - 6:30 PM. Nolte 235

Wednesday, October 17 -- Reading Group: Speculative Realism: Meillassoux, After Finitude (pp. 50-128),
3:00-5:00 PM, Nolte 235.

Friday, October 19 -- Lecture: “From Testimonies to Observations: Translating Facts from Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Books” Antonio Berrera, History, Colgate University.
3:30 - 5:00 PM. Tate Physics 131.
Sponsored by the Colloquium in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

Thursday, November 1 – Reading Group: Sovereignty: Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, pp. TBA.
5:00 - 6:30 PM. Nolte 235

Friday, November 2 – Reading Group: The Beginnings of Political Economy. Two of the Collège de France lectures by Michel Foucault from his series of 1977-78 entitled "Security, Territory, Population." Included in this selection is the widely influential lecture published elsewhere as "Of Governmentality."
4:00 - 5:30 PM. Nolte 235, Heller 1024, West Bank

Thursday, November 8 – Reading Group: Sovereignty: Walter Benjamin, "Critique of Violence."
4:00 - 5:30 PM. Nolte 235

Thursday, November 15 – Work-in-Progress Seminar: “The Performance of Memory. Thinking Strategies for Remembering the Scene.” Francesca Bortoletti, University of Minnesota, and Annalisa Sacchi, Harvard University.
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Nolte 235
Co-sponsored with the Department of French and Italian, and the Department of Theater Arts and Dance.

Friday, November 16 – Lecture: “’I'll be your mirror.’ The Role of the Spectatorship in Dante Alighieri's Inferno by Romeo Castellucci.” Annalisa Sacchi, Harvard University.
1:30 - 3:00, Rarig 275
Co-sponsored with the Department of French and Italian, and the Department of Theater Arts and Dance.

Saturday, November 17-- Reading Group: Speculative Realism: Laruelle, (Christophe).

Thursday, November 22 -- THANKSGIVING

Thursday, November 29 – Work in Progress Seminar: “Utopia in the Universe.” Crystal Bartolovich, English, Syracuse University.
5:00 - 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.
Co-Sponsored by the “Performing the Enlightenment in the Twenty First Century” Conference.

Friday, November 30 & Saturday, December 1 -- Conference: “Performing the Enlightenment in the Twenty First Century— A Multidisciplinary Conference.”
Program TBA.

Thursday, December 6 – Reading Group: Sovereignty: Ernst Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies, pp. TBA.
5:00 - 6:30 PM. Nolte 235.

Thursday, December 13 – Work-in-Progress Seminar: “Catching Fire.” Lisa Pon, Art History, Southern Methodist University.
5:00 - 6:30 PM, Nolte 235.

Friday, December 14 – Lecture: “Isolating Contagion in Early Modern Venice.” Lisa Pon, Art History, Southern Methodist University. 12:15 - 1:30 PM, Heller 1210.
Co-Sponsored with the Center for Early Modern History and the James Ford Bell Library.

PAPERS WILL CIRCULATE IN ADVANCE. Readings for each session will be available as .pdf files here at the TEMS website on the home page. Link to the .pdf files/paper abstracts by clicking on the paper titles or on the "current schedule." Please e-mail Michael Gaudio at gaudio@umn.edu for more information.