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Humanities Forum and First Tuesdays

Tuesday October 2, 2012 Haldeman 246

Jennifer Fluri

Email Isabel Weatherdon to book a spot for lunch and receive the reading. Seating is limited.

Through lectures and discussions, the Humanities Forum promotes research at Dartmouth fundamentally. The Forum opens up a space for the presentation of research, the airing of new ideas, and for exchange about issues of interdisciplinary importance.

"First Tuesday" Lunchtime Discussions

First Tuesday" lunchtime discussions bring faculty members together to discuss a pre-ciruclated text, selected by the facilitator. The reading will be a critical, theoretical, scholarly text that the facilitator is currently working with -- the reading should not be the facilitator's own work-in-progress, but a text that he or she finds intriguing, troubling, relevant, provocative, meaningful in ways that might resonate with others. The reading should be on the short side -- certainly no more than article-length, but ideally even shorter -- 10-12 pages. In addition to selecting the reading, the facilitator will introduce the text briefly (5-10 minutes), saying something about its relation to their work, the reasons they  find it interesting and questions about it.  Then we will open up for discussion.

The lunches will take place 12:00 - 1:30 in the Leslie Center Conference Room Haldeman 246 on the first Tuesday of each month in Fall, Winter and Spring Quarters. Email Isabel Weatherdon to book a spot for lunch and receive the reading. Seating is limited.

Upcoming:

Tuesday October 2, 2012 - Jennifer Fluri (Geography and Women’s and Gender Studies).

 

Past Events:

• Tuesday February 7, 2012:  Jeff Sharlet (English)  "American Modernism and Depression Documentary.
• Tuesday March 6, 2012 : Noelia Cirnigliaro (Spanish and Portuguese)  "Women's Murderous Accessories: Shoes and Sexuality in Film Noir and Psychoanalysis
• Tuesday April 3, 2012 -  Bill Boyer  (Institute for Writing and Rhetoric) "A Voice and Nothing More".

Humanities Forum Lectures

A longstanding Dartmouth institution, the Humanities Forum meets regularly to enable Dartmouth faculty members in the humanities and interdisciplinary studies to present their current work. Pre-tenure faculty members are especially encouraged to submit work, but any Dartmouth faculty member may do so.These lectures permit Dartmouth faculty to present a 30 to 40 minute lecture describing work-in-progress, followed by ca. 20 minutes of discussion. The discussion is an integral part of the format and aims at providing the speaker with substantial feedback. The event is followed by a reception, where conversation may continue in a more informal setting.

 

Please contact Colleen Glenney Boggs if you would like to present your work to the Forum, have an idea for an issue to be discussed over lunch, or if you have any questions about this program