February 2013

Richard Halpern (English, New York University) Wolf Kittler (German, Slavic, & Semitic Studies,UCSB) Joseph Roach (Theater, Yale) Friday, February 8 / 1:00 PM Saturday, February 9 / 8: 30 AM McCune Conference Room. HSSB 6020) Contemporary discussions of "risk" or "speculation" often identify these concepts as distinguishing...

Friday, February 8 / 1:00-5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Keynote Speaker: Richard Halpern, (English, New York University): "The Loss of Hazard: Fugitive Risk in The Merchant of Venice" w/Shakespeare is a new multi-campus research group dedicated to the innovative study of Shakespeare. Convened by Julia...

Nan Enstad (History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Friday, February 8 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Enstad is the author of Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Her new book project is “The Jim...