NEWSLETTER - FALL 2009The Leslie Research Seminars offer faculty the opportunity to share and develop shared interests in a relaxed, but focused environment. If you are interested in forming a Research Seminar, please contact the Director.
Coordinators: Sally Ackerman, Aden Evens (English), Veronika Fuechtner (German Studies), Susannah Heschel (Religion)
The Psychoanalysis Study Group aims to create an interdisciplinary dialogue among academics and clinicians who utilize psychoanalytic theory. The group plans to invite practicing psychoanalytic clinicians to present papers with Dartmouth faculty as respondents, and to have professors present papers with clinicians as discussants. The hope is to foster on exchange about the application of psychoanalytic ideas in relation to patients, texts, film, art, culture, and ideas, leaving room to elaborate points of common interest and points of difference.
This study group hopes to meet five or six times per year, with papers pre-circulated and a discussant directing the exchange about the paper. Our goal is to foster new and creative thinking about varying psychoanalytic themes and trends through interdisciplinary discourse within the college and beyond it. We also hope that these exchanges will foster new applications of psychoanalytic thinking through emerging courses in the college and interdisciplinary research.
Coordinators: Francine A'ness (Spanish & Portuguese), Robert Craig Baum (Visiting Professor of Philosophy and New Media, European Graduate School), Laura Edmondson (Theater), Woon-Ping Chin (English), Patricia Herrera (César Chávez Dissertation Fellow), Annabelle Winograd (Theater)
The TPS Research Group aims to promote scholarly exchange and dialogue concerning historical and contemporary forms of expression that can be broadly defined as "theatrical." Through the facilitation of writing groups, invited speakers, and roundtables, we aim to build a network of faculty members who share a commitment to exploring how performance intersects with the political, social, and cultural concerns of local and/or global communities.
The group consists of two branches:
* a working group that meets every few weeks to share writing in the discipline as well as writing that bridges scholarly and creative work
* a seminar that convenes a few times a year around visits of invited speakers or for roundtable discussions
This dual model aims enhance the visibility of our discipline at Dartmouth as well as nourish and stimulate our own research. We also expect that the seminars and the working group will expand into a variety of informal exchanges across campus such as classroom visits and joint proposals.
We anticipate that this dual model will enhance the visibility of our discipline at Dartmouth as well as nourish and stimulate our own research. We also expect that the seminars and the working group will expand into a variety of informal exchanges across campus such as classroom visits and joint proposals.
(cosponsored by The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding)
Coordinators: Rebecca Biron (Spanish & Portuguese, Comparative Literature), Antonio Gomez (Spanish & Portuguese)
The Globalization Research Group studies how different disciplines understand and debate globalization. It focuses on how and why certain groups define globalization the way they do, and how those definitions affect political arguments about globalization. The group is open to all interested members of the Dartmouth community.
The meetings consist of informal discussion of the readings. We will draw from those discussions to choose subsequent readings by consensus.
