1997-1998 Research Workshops:

• Black Popular Culture

  Faculty Sponsor: Kennell Jackson

• Cinema

  Faculty Sponsors: Henry Breitrose and Jocelyn Marsh

• Empires and Cultures

  Faculty Sponsors: Gabrielle Hecht and Roger Hart; Graduate Student Coordinator:Sara Pritchard

• Equality of What and Among Whom?

  Faculty Sponsor: Debra Satz

• Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End

  Faculty Sponsor: Carl Bielefeldt, Graduate Student Coordinator:Mark Gonnerman

• Latino Studies

  Faculty Sponsor: Ramon Saldivar, Graduate Student Coordinator: Alicia Gamez

• Lesbian Gay Queer Studies

  Faculty Sponsors: Estelle Freedman, Janet Halley, Paul Robinson, Graduate Student Coordinator: Shelley Correll. First Meeting: Monday, October 13, 4:15 pm.

  Description: The workshop will meet four times per quarter, with some sessions devoted to public lectures by lesbian and gay speakers and most reserved for smaller group discussions that explore the current research projects of workshop participants. Research agendas expected to be addressed include: essentialism and social constructionism in lesbian, gay, and queer studies; gender performance; class, race and sexualities; the challenge of reconstructing gay and lesbian history; definitions of deviance and sexual boundaries. Regular participation is expected of workshop members. Readings will be provided, and junior faculty and graduate students will be eligible for small research grants (to purchase books, e.g.). Seminar conveners are Professors Estelle Freedman (History), Janet Halley (Law), and Paul Robinson (History). Workshop membership will be limited to a total of approximately 25 faculty and graduate students. If you are interested in being a member of this workshop or if you have further questions, please send email to Shelley Correll, graduate student coordinator, at: scorrell@leland.

• Opera Studies

  Faculty Sponsor: Heather Hadlock

• Philosophical Readings Group

  Faculty Sponsor: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Graduate Student Assistant: Bradley William Buchanan. We meet every Thursday from 7:30 to 10:00 pm in room 252 of building 260. Readings are available in the textbooks section of the Stanford University Bookstore.

• Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution: The Spaces of Enlightenment

  Faculty Sponsor: Maureen Harkin, Graduate Student Assistant: Diana Maltz. All our meetings for fall will take place in the Humanities Center Annex. The schedule is as follows: Friday October 10th. 10 am - 12; Friday November 7th. 10 am - 11.30; Friday December 5th. 10 am - 12; Readings will be distributed upon request (lomax@leland).

• The Iberian World

  Faculty Sponsors: Paula Findlen and Christopher Schmitt-Nowara

  The first meeting will be in the History department Lounge, 3rd floor of building 200, on Friday, September 26 at noon. The workshop will meet four times per quarter and will feature work in progress by students and faculty as well as papers from invited speakers. The workshop will be organized in a rough chronological order: in the Fall quarter we will concentrate on the pre-contact societies and the Spanish incursion into the Americas. Winter quarter presentations will deal with the consolidation of colonial societies and the impact of colonization on Europe and the Americas. In the Spring quarter, we will encourage presentations on the break-up of empire with particular attention given to the Spanish-Cuban-American war in light of the centennial of 1898

For further questions about the workshop program, please contact Susan E. Dunn, Associate Director of the Stanford Humanities Center: sedunn@leland.stanford.edu.

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