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Workshop on Material Culture and Thing Theory

APRIL 20, 2015 – 2:00PM TO 5:00PM

Hurst Lounge

Michael Yonan, Art History, University of Missouri-Columbia, “What’s the Matter with Franz Xaver Messerschmidt?”

Nancy Um, Art History, SUNY-Binghamton, “Spices, Porcelain, and Wood: Material Registers of Dutch Exchange Around the Indian Ocean, ca. 1700”

Respondent: Kristina Kleutghen, Art History, Washington University in St. Louis

Sophie White, History, Notre Dame, “Enslaved Africains, Their Words, and Their Things”

Alex Dubé, History, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Fabric of the State: Reading the Eighteenth-Century French Empire Through Woolen Cloth”

Respondent: Mark Valeri, Danforth Center for Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis

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Masonic Ritual as Philosophy in Early Eighteenth-Century France

MARCH 5, 2015 – 4:00PM TO 6:00PM

Pannill Camp, Performing Arts, Washington University in St. Louis

Umrath 201

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Workshop on Material Culture and It-Narratives

FEBRUARY 27, 2015 – 2:30PM TO 5:00PM

Danforth University Center 276

Dramatic reading of an it-narrative (Smollett’s Adventures of an Atom) by Amanda Lee and Tili Boon Cuillé

Lynn Festa, English, Rutgers, “Anthropomorphic Things”

Michael Kwass, History, Johns Hopkins, “Contraband: An Underground History of the Consumer Revolution”

Round-table discussion on teaching about things hosted by Alex Dubé, History, Washington University in St. Louis

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Florestan Among the Revelers: Postclassical Virtuosity and Schumann’s Critique of Pleasure

JANUARY 29, 2015 – 4:00PM TO 6:00PM

Alex Stefaniak, Music, Washington University in St. Louis
Umrath 201
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Peepshows, Society, and Visuality in Early Modern China

NOVEMBER 17, 2014 – 3:00PM TO 5:00PM

Kristina Kleutghen, Art History, Washington University in St. Louis
Eads 217
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Roxana and England’s Catholic Captivity

OCTOBER 27, 2014 – 3:00PM TO 5:00PM

Geremy Carnes, English, Lindenwood University
Umrath 201
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Patriarchy, Celibacy, and Marriage: Subversion and Religious Education in Early Nineteenth-Century France

OCTOBER 1, 2014 – 3:00PM TO 5:00PM

Jen Popiel, History, Saint Louis University
Umrath 201
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Lycanthropy and the Fantasy of Human Exceptionalism in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly

JANUARY 29, 2014 – 3:00PM TO 5:00PM

Nick Miller
Danforth University Center 248
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Sarah Bernhardt Meets the Gauchos: Hemispheric Travelers on the American Stage

DECEMBER 10, 2013 – 3:00PM TO 5:00PM

William Acree, Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish), Washington University in St. Louis
Eads 217
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Music Theorists in the Age of Empfindsamkeit

NOVEMBER 20, 2013 – 4:00PM TO 6:00PM

Darrell Berg, Music, Washington University in St. Louis
Center for the Humanities Conference Room