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Dartmouth College
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Summer 2013

  • July 1  - August 17, 2013: TOWARDS A GLOBAL HISTORY OF SEXUAL SCIENCE, 1880 - 1950: A Leslie Center Humanities Institute. Directed by Veronika Fuechtner (German) and Douglas Haynes (History).
  • Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm: Public Conference Keynote for Humanities Institute 2013:Travels Through a World of Difference: Magnus Hirschfeld and the Queer Narratives of Modern Sex Research: Heike Bauer (University of London, UK). Haldeman 041. Free and open to all.  Part of the Leslie Center Humanities Institute TOWARDS A GLOBAL HISTORY OF SEXUAL SCIENCE, 1880 - 1950:
  • Tuesday July 2, 2013, 5.45 - 7.30pm: Public Conference Keynote for Humanities Institute 2013: Writing the Past, Constructing Sexual Knowledge, 1883-1938: Jana Funke/Kate Fisher (University of Exeter, UK).  Haldeman 041. Free and open to all.  Part of the Leslie Center Humanities Institute TOWARDS A GLOBAL HISTORY OF SEXUAL SCIENCE, 1880 - 1950:
  • Tuesday July 16, 2013, 4pm - 6pm: The Science of Sexual Difference: Havelock Ellis, Ogura Seizaburō and EarlyTwentieth-Century Japanese Feminism: Michiko Suzuki (Indiana University). Haldeman 041. Free and open to all.  Part of the Leslie Center Humanities Institute TOWARDS A GLOBAL HISTORY OF SEXUAL SCIENCE, 1880 - 1950:
  • Tuesday July 23, 2013, 4pm - 6pm: Takahashi Tetsu and the impact of popular sexology in early postwar Japan (1945-70): Mark McLelland (University of Wollongong, Australia). Haldeman 041. Free and open to all.  Part of the Leslie Center Humanities Institute TOWARDS A GLOBAL HISTORY OF SEXUAL SCIENCE, 1880 - 1950:
  • Thursday July 25, 2013  4 - 6pm: Westermarck's Morocco: Sexology, Orientalism, & the Politics of Cultural Anthropology. Ralph Leck (Indiana State University). Haldeman 041. Free and open to all. Part of the Leslie Center Humanities Institute TOWARDS A GLOBAL HISTORY OF SEXUAL SCIENCE, 1880 - 1950:
  • Tuesday July 30, 2013, 4pm - 6pm: Berlin's Institute of Sexual Science in Exile: Ludwig Levy-Lenz in Cairo: Jill Smith (Bowdoin College). Haldeman 041. Free and open to all. Part of the Leslie Center Humanities Institute TOWARDS A GLOBAL HISTORY OF SEXUAL SCIENCE, 1880 - 1950:
  • Thursday August 1, 2013, 4pm - 6pm: Sexology in the Southwest: Medical Opinions on a Sodomy Case in the German Colonies:  Robert Tobin (Clark University). Haldeman 041. Free and open to all. Part of the Leslie Center Humanities Institute TOWARDS A GLOBAL HISTORY OF SEXUAL SCIENCE, 1880 - 1950:
  • Thursday August 8, 2013, 4pm - 6pm: Negotiating Sexology and Subjectivity in Exile: Max Marcuse in Palestine/ Israel, 1933-1963:  Kirsten Leng (Northwestern University).Haldeman 041. Free and open to all. Part of the Leslie Center Humanities Institute TOWARDS A GLOBAL HISTORY OF SEXUAL SCIENCE, 1880 - 1950:
  • Tuesday August 13, 2013, 4pm - 6pm: The Machines of Sex Research: Gender and the Politics of Identity, 1945–1985: Donna Drucker (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany). Haldeman 041. Free and open to all. Part of the Leslie Center Humanities Institute TOWARDS A GLOBAL HISTORY OF SEXUAL SCIENCE, 1880 - 1950:

Fall 2013

  • August 30 - September 1, 2013: DARTMOUTH-TSINGHUA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE TSINGHUA MANUSCRIPTS: The Fourth International Conference on Excavated Chinese Manuscripts .
  • September 9 and 10, 2013: MATARIKI CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND THE HUMANITIES.  Co-hosted by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Dartmouth College Library.  By invitation only.
  • Friday September 20, 2013: MS REVIEW FOR AIMEE BAHNG: SPECULATIVE ARTS:  By Invitation only.
  • Tuesday October 1, 2013 12pm - 1.30pm: FIRST TUESDAY LUNCHTIME DISCUSSION. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • Thursday October 3, 2013, 4.30pm: RICHARD BLANCO American poet and teacher and  poet for Barack Obama's second inauguration.Venue TBA. Free and open to all.
  • Friday October 4, 2013: MS REVIEW FOR SOYICA COLBERT: BLACK MOVEMENTS: PERFORMANCE, POLITICS AND MIGRATION.  By invitation only.
  • Tuesday October 8, 2013 , 12pm -1.30pm: THEORY STUDY GROUP MEETING. FACILITATOR: SEBASTIAN DIAZ: TEXT TBA.  Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • Tuesday October 15, 2013, 12pm - 1.30pm: 19TH CENTURY STUDY GROUP MEETING. Inaugural Meeting.   Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • Tuesday October 15, 2013: 4.30pm JONATHAN SPERBER (University of Missouri). Haldeman 041. Highly acclaimed author of Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life and celebrity guest on The John Stewart Show.   Free and open to all.
  • Saturday October 19, 2013: Mirage/Time: FUTURES OF HUMANISM. A full day conference directed by Michelle Warren (Comparative Literature). 
  • Saturday November 2, 2013: 9am - 5pm: MEDIEVAL COLLOQUIUM.  By Invitation only.
  • Tuesday November 5, 2013, 12pm - 1.30pm: THEORY STUDY GROUP MEETING. FACILITATOR: PAUL JACKSON: TEXT TBA. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • Tuesday November 12, 2013  12pm - 1.30pm: 19th CENTURY STUDY GROUP MEETING. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • November 14 and 15, 2013: THINK BIG - HOW COMPUTATION AND THE "BIG DATA" VIEWPOINT IS RESHAPING THE HUMANITIES: Co-organized by The Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Neukom Institute.

Winter 2014

  • Tuesday January 14, 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm: 19TH CENTRY STUDY GROUP MEETING. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • Friday January 24, 2014: MS REVIEW FOR AMY ALLEN: By invitation only
  • Tuesday January 28, 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm: THEORY STUDY GROUP MEETING. FACILITATOR: MARY COFFEY: TEXT TBA. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • Tuesday February 4, 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm: FIRST TUESDAY STUDY GROUP MEETING. Text: Susie O'Brien: "On Death And Donuts: Irony and Ecology After September 11th." Cultural Critique 58 (2004). 148-167. Facilitator: Melina Gehring (Visiting Fellow -  Leslie Humanities Center).  Haldeman 246. Please contact Administrator if you wish receive a reading and book your spot . Lunch Provided.
  • Tuesday February 11, 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm: 19TH CENTURY STUDY GROUP MEETING. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • Tuesday February 25, 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm THEORY STUDY GROUP MEETING. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.

Spring 2014

  • Tuesday April 1, 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm; FIRST TUESDAY STUDY GROUP MEETING. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • Tuesday April 8, 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm: 19TH CENTURY STUDY GROUP MEETING. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • Tuesday April 22, 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm: THEORY STUDY GROUP MEETING. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • Tuesday May 13, 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm: 19TH CENTURY STUDY GROUP MEETING. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • Tuesday May 22, 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm; THEORY STUDY GROUP MEETING. FACILITATOR: YASSER ELHARIRY: TEXT TBA. Haldeman 246 RSVP Administrator to book a spot and receive a reading. Lunch Provided.
  • May 23 - May 25, 2014: HUSSERL CIRCLE CONFERENCE:  Directed by Amy Allen (Pilosophy) and Smaranda Aldea (Philosophy) and Cosponrsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Philosophy Dept.  Haldeman 041.

Last Updated: 6/4/13