Past Workshops

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.

2008-2009 Workshops

Line Breaks in the Humanities
What is the Posthuman
Science and Print Culture

2007-2008 Workshops

Audio Culture in the Visual Era
Bodies and the Production of Perversity
Freedom and Responsibility
Globalization and Human Security
On Lyric: Politics Theory & Practice
The Time, Poetics, and Ethics of Testimony
Trauma Tourism

2006-2007

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

2006-2007 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