Study Groups
The Leslie Center is proud to announce the formation to three Study Groups. These groups offer faculty the opportunity to share and develop shared interests in a relaxed, but focused environment. If you are interested in forming a Study Group, please contact the Center (Humanities.Center@Dartmouth.edu).
Psychoanalysis
The Psychoanalysis Study Group aims to create an interdisciplinary dialogue among academics and clinicians who use psychoanalytic theory or study the history of psychoanalysis. 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 an exchange about the application of psychoanalytic ideas in relation to patients, theory, history, and cultural representations such as literature or film, 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 help implement new applications of psychoanalytic thought through interdisciplinary research, new courses or teaching collaborations.
Coordinators:
- Sarah Ackerman, Ph.D. (Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst)
- Aden Evens (English)
- Veronika Fuechtner (German Studies, Comparative Literarture, and Women's & Gender Studies)
- Susannah Heschel (Religion & Jewish Studies)
Theater and Performance Studies
The TPS Study 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
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.
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.
Coordinators:
- Francine A'ness (Spanish)
- Robert Craig Baum (Scholar in Residence, European Graduate School)
- Laura Edmondson (Theater)
- Woon-Ping Chin (English)
- Patricia Herrera (César Chávez Dissertation Fellow)
- Annabelle Winograd (Theater)
Globalization
The Globalization Study 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.
Beginning in Fall 07, we will meet two or three times per term. Texts will be distributed well before each meeting so that the participants have time to prepare. The meetings will consist of informal discussion of the readings. We will draw from those discussions to choose subsequent readings by consensus.
Coordinators:
- Rebecca Biron (Spanish & Portuguese, Comparative Literature)
- Antonio Gomez (Spanish & Portuguese)
This group is co-sponsored by The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.
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