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FCHI Interdisciplinary Research Seminars (CHIIRS)
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WHAT ARE CHIIRS?
Along with its role as a residential research center for interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities, the FCHI works to develop and coordinate humanities programming across the Emory campus. A major component of this effort is the FCHI Interdisciplinary Research Seminars (CHIIRS), funded by a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In these seminars, clusters of faculty and graduate students engaged in collaborative humanistic studies.
The kind of seminars that are envisioned for the CHIIRS Program has long been a source of interdisciplinary, cross-university conversations on other campuses, drawing from existing faculty and graduate student seminar programs. The scope of the seminars ranges from traditional areas of study, such as time periods or geographical areas, to the emerging cross-disciplinary and cross-theoretical structures.
The seminars meet once a month during the fall and spring semesters in the Seminar Room at the FCHI House. Programming will be a combination of individual presentations on research in progress, group discussions of specific research topics in the given areas, occasional outside speakers, and whatever other academic formats each seminar may find useful in furthering its particular intellectual mission. If you would like to participate in one of the seminars, please contact the moderator.
The Interdisciplinary Research Seminars are held in collaboration with the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence. (emory.edu/PROVOST/facultydevelopment/centerforfacultydev)
If you would like to propose a seminar for Fall 2010, please click here for an interactive application. You may type directly on the application, print and fax (404.727.1669) or send to Keith Anthony, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA 30322. For further information, please contact the Center at phone 404-727-6424 or by email at chi@emory.edu.
The FCHI inaugurated four seminars in the fall of 2003:
Brothers and Sisters: Literal, Literary
and Theoretical Approaches
Moderator: Prof. Elena Glazov-Corrigan, REALC
The relationship between siblings is at once the most stable and unstable of all human ties and has multiple manifestations. This seminar is dedicated to the uncovering of the understandings of these ties that exist in different cultures and historical periods.
Personality and Creativity
Moderator: Prof. Walt Reed, English
Designed to explore connections and parallels between theories of personality and fictional persons in literature, this seminar will examine the potential interface between the development and structure of human personality and the creation of credible characters in prose fiction and drama.
Race and Comparative History
Moderator: Prof. Leslie Harris, History
The Race and Comparative History group will examine issues of race in comparative and transnational contexts. Rooted in historical methods, it will examine the possibilities for collaborative research and teaching on issues of race in an international context.
Memory and Memorializing
Moderator: Prof. Angelika Bammer, ILA
This seminar brings together scholars and a select number of graduate students in whose work “memory” functions as a defining category, either as the content of their research or as the means of their research.
2009-2010 Seminars
International Modernisms between the Wars
Moderator: Lois Overbeck, Research Associate (The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett)
The year 2009 brings publication of the first of four volumes of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1940. Research on this project has raised a gamut of issues of interest to scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
18th Century Literature and Culture
Moderator: Peggy Thompson, Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English & Chair; Agnes Scott College
This reading group will convene faculty from colleges and universities across Atlanta who are interested in any literary, historical, or cultural aspects of 18 th-century writing and social, political, and economic culture.
The Contest of the Faculties: Publics, Humanities, and the Division of Knowledge in Educational Institutions Today
Moderators: Lynne Huffer, Professor of Women’s Studies & Michael Moon, Professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
This seminar series draws participants into a sustained and sustainable conversation about the current practice of public Humanities and public scholarship at Emory and at other institutions within and beyond the U.S.
Modern Women Writers
Moderator: Martine W. Brownley, Goodrich C. White Professor of English & Director of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
This Reading Group is composed of graduate students and faculty who are interested in reading and discussing novels by contemporary women writers.
Jewish Studies Across the Disciplines
Moderators: Eric L. Goldstein, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies & Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin American History and Director of Jewish Studies
The 2009 Seminar Series will include “Echoes of the Spanish Civil War in Palestine: History and Memory”; “Was Ancient Israelite Ritual Symbolic Activity?”; “From Father, From Son: Generational Perspectives in Christoph and Jakob Hein”; “Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Nation Beyond Stare in Jewish Political Thought, 1917-1948”, and “Psychoanalysis and Jews in Argentina: The Case of José Bleger: Zionist, Psychoanalyst and Marxist”.
Dear Reader: The Art and Technology of Letters
Moderator: Hazel Gold, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
From antiquity to the present day, letters have served as a mode of communication and a form of creative expression. This seminar will explore how letters are written, interpreted, and archived in different historical and cultural contexts, including our own electronic age.
2008-2009 Seminars
Feminism and Legal Theory Project
Moderator: Martha Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law
International Modernisms between the Wars
Moderator: Lois Overbeck, Research Associate (The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett)
Religion, Cognition, and Praxis: Pragmatic Negotiations of the Everyday and Academic Contributions to Peacebuilding
Moderator: David W. Montgomery, Postdoctoral Fellow (Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Initiative)
18th Century Reading Group
Moderator: Rivka Swenson, Postdoctoral Fellow (Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry)
The Contest of the Faculties: Publics, Humanities, and the Division of Knowledge in Educational Institutions Today
Moderators: Lynne Huffer, Professor of Women’s Studies and Michael Moon, Professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
Modern Women Writers Moderator: Martine W. Brownley, Goodrich C. White Professor of English, Winship Distinguished Professor; and Director of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
2007-2008 Seminars
Religion, Law, and Vulnerable Populations: Pluralistic Inquiries
Moderator: Prof. Laurie Patton, Religion
We will explore the larger questions of religious pluralism, legal discourse, and public life, particularly as they affect those in our society who are disadvantaged. Particular attention will be paid to questions of gender, sexuality, race and cultural identity as they have emerged in comparative legal theories and the comparative studies of religion.
The Intersection of Art and Religion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Moderator: Prof. Rebecca Stone, Art History
Artistic expression interacts in many different ways with religious beliefs and practices across a variety of cultures. Such themes as inspiration, illumination, suffering, and transcendence, among others, resonate in both the aesthetic and the spiritual realms.
Gender and Performance
Moderator: Prof. Niall Slater (Classics)
The constructed nature of gender is both expressed and created through a variety of performances. We will explore literary, theatrical and social enactments of gender from antiquity to the present in a range of cultural milieux.
Race and Comparative History
Moderator: Prof. Leslie Harris, History
The Race and Comparative History group will examine issues of race in comparative and transnational contexts. Rooted in historical methods, it will examine the possibilities for collaborative research and teaching on issues of race in an international context.
Women’s Studies Reading Group
Moderator: Prof. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson,
Women’s Studies
Focusing on international literature, the reading group will take as a starting point Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price and Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman’s Journey. Future titles will be selected by the group.
Islamic Studies Workshop
Moderator: Prof. Devin Stewart, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies
Participants present their papers across the scope of Islamic Scholarship for roundtable discussion.
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