“Ethical Subjects: Moralities, Laws, Histories”
Seth Koven (History) and Judith Surkis (History), co-directors
Jan. 19: Andy Murphy (Political Science, Rutgers): From Practice to Theory to Practice: William Penn from Prison to the Founding of Pennsylvania
Jan. 26: Chris Finley (Race and Gender postdoc, RCHA): “Ethnographic Refusal” and Sacajawea: Interrogating Images of Sacajawea in Popular Culture
Feb. 2: Sabine Cadeau (RCHA post-doc): Refugees and Land Conflict in the Post-Genocide Haitian-Dominican Border
Feb. 9: Beth Baron (History, CUNY): Paths to Freedom: Missionaries and African Girls in Egypt
Feb. 16: Karuna Mantena (Political Science, Yale): Competing Theories of Nonviolent Politics
Feb. 23: Elizabeth Bernstein (Sociology, Barnard/Columbia): Redemptive Capitalism and Sexual Investability
March 1: Ilana Feldman (Anthropology, George Washington University): Palestinian Refugees, Category Problems, and Political Life without Political Status
March 8: Serena Mayeri (Law and History, UPenn): Feminism and (Non)marriage in the Age of Equality
March 15: Spring break
March 22: Courtney Doucette (History, Rutgers): Almost to Communism: The Congress of People's Deputies and Activation of the Soviet Person, 1989
March 29: Melissa Feinberg (History, Rutgers): The Power of the Powerless: Fear and the Shortage Economy in 1950s Eastern Europe
April 12: Julia Bowes (History, Rutgers): Every Home Is a Sentry Box: The Battle over Child Labor and the Meaning of Liberty
April 19: Leslie Fishbein (American Studies, Rutgers): Prostitutes and Madams as Social Critics and Ethical Subjects
April 26: Jackson Lears (History, Rutgers): The Wild Card: Animal Spirits and the Calculating Self in Anglo-American Thought
May 2: KEYNOTE LECTURE: Carolyn Dean (History, Yale): Trauma, Witnessing, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion, 4:30-6, to be followed by reception (Pane Room, Alexander Library)