Now in its 9th year, Mellon workshops have explored an astounding variety of humanities topics. Below is a list of all past workshops, with links to some of the more recent workshops.
Bodies and the Production of Perversity
Captives and Castaways
The Confucius Seminar
Globalization and Human Security Workshop
In the Name of Difficult Words: The Time, Poetics, and Ethics of Testimony
Transitions and Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State
Cosmopolitan Cultures/Cosmopolitan Histories
The Good Childhood
Monstrosity and Alterity
Powers and Machines in the Early Modern Period *
2005-2006
Chernobyl and its Consequences
Cosmopolitan Cultures, Cosmopolitan Histories
The Good Childhood
Monstrosity and Alterity
Powers and Machines in the Early Modern Period
2004-2005
Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity
Africa in the African Diaspora
Chernobyl and its Consequences
Empire in Transition
Transnational Gender History
2003-2004
Africa in the African Diaspora
Byzantium and the West
Empire in Transition: A Cultural and Historical Case Study
The Subject of Electronica
Transnational Gender History
2002-2003
Holocaust and Humanity in the 21st Century
Language and the Mind
Material Culture: The Ritual(s) of Everyday Life
Conflicting Cultures: Invention of Modernity in Africa
Disability Studies in the Humanities
2001-2002
Holocaust and Humanities in the 21st Century
Language and the Mind
Museum Worlds
The Rituals of Everyday Life: A Material Culture Workshop
Early Modern Studies
2000-2001
Conflicting Cultures and the Invention of Modernity in Africa
Disability Studies in the Humanities
The Ritual(s) of Everyday Life: A Material Culture Workshop
Visual Culture Studies
The Early Modern Study Group