Rethinking the Family in Early Modern Britain Workshop

Workshop: Thirkill Room, 1st floor of F staircase, Old Court.

9.30 Convene and welcome – Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster

9.45-11.15.am Panel 1

Dr Ella Sbaraini (Cambridge): Family Emotions

Dr Carys Brown (Cambridge): Religion, Spirituality, and Child’s Play in the Early Modern Family c.1660-1780

11.15am -11.30 Coffee

11.30-1pm Panel 2

Dr Sarah Fox (Edge Hill), Professor Karen Harvey (Birmingham), Dr Emily Vine (Exeter): Household Bodies: Power, Embodiment and the Early Modern Family

Dr James Fisher (Exeter): Household Economies

1-2pm Lunch: Latimer Room, Old Court

2-3.30pm Panel 3

Dr Elizabeth Foyster (Cambridge): Parenting the child with learning disabilities

Dr Anthony Delaney and Professor Helen Berry (Exeter): Queer Families

3.30-4pm Tea

4pm-5.30 Panel 4

Professor Vivien Dietz (Davidson College, North Carolina) and Professor Dana Rabin (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois): Race, Ethnicity and Empire

Professor Jason Kelly (Indiana University): Family, Empire and the Anthropocene

5.30-5.45pm Round-up

The IAHI hosts a conversation about the future of the arts and humanities in higher education with Dr Laura Holzman, Professor of Art History and Museum Studies; Dr Lasana Kazembe, Associate Professor of Urban Teacher Education; Dr Jason Kelly, Professor of History; and Dr Joseph L Tucker Edmonds, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies.

Emergency of Emergencies: The Aesthetics & Politics of Climate Justice

Attend a public talk by art historian T. J. Demos, founder of the Center for Creative Ecologies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, about the intersections of contemporary art, radical politics, and ecology.

This presentation offers a reading of select aesthetic practices that connect with climate justice — specifically the analysis of climate propagandas by Jonas Staal, the forensic racial justice investigations of Imani Jacqueline Brown and Forensic Architecture, and the Indigenous futurism of T.J. Cuthand.

This event will occur from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 4, in Eskenazi Hall’s Basile Auditorium.

It is organized by Uranchimeg Tsultem, assistant professor of art history and Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair in International Studies, and fully funded by IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellows program. The Indiana Council on World Affairs is a collaborating partner.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

T. J. Demos is an award-winning writer on contemporary art, global politics, and ecology. He is Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Founder and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely on the intersection of contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, and his essays have appeared in magazines, journals, and catalogues worldwide. His published work centers broadly on the conjunction of art and politics, examining the ability of artistic practice to invent innovative and experimental strategies that challenge dominant social, political, and economic conventions.

ADDITIONAL PRESENTERS

Two brief presentations will follow Demos’s talk, and the event will conclude with a Q&A. Among the presenters are:

• Jason M. Kelly, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of History, IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute Director

• Uranchimeg “Orna” Tsultem, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History, Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair in International Studies, Herron School of Art + Design

• Stefan Petranek, Associate Professor of Foundations and Photography, Herron School of Art + Design

EVENT PARKING

Parking for Eskenazi Hall is free in the Sports Complex Garage adjacent to Eskenazi Hall or on levels 5 and 6 of the Riverwalk Garage, courtesy of The Great Frame Up in Indianapolis and Carmel, with a special code from the galleries.

As an institution of higher education, Indiana University encourages and supports the free and civil exchange of ideas and academic freedom and regularly invites speakers from diverse perspectives to our campuses. Visit freespeech.iu.edu for more information.

Free

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
53rd Annual Meeting
9–11 March 2023
St. Louis, Missouri

Panel: “L’homme mêle et confond les climats”: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Anthropocene
[German Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (DGEJ)]
Room: Regency F

Chair: Jürgen OVERHOFF, Universität Münster

1. Tim ZUMHOF, Universität Trier, Germany, and Nicole BALZER, University of Münster, Germany, “Rousseau’s Critique of the Anthropocene and the Legacy of Enlightenment: A New Materialist Perspective”

2. Célia ABELE, Princeton University, “‘J’aperçois une manufacture de bas’: Industry, Colonies, and Nature in Rousseau’s ‘Seventh Promenade’”

3. Giulia PACINI, William & Mary, “Deforestation and the French Climate Literature of François-Antoine Rauch and Jean-Baptiste Rougier de la Bergerie”

4. James SWENSON, Rutgers University, “A Rediscovered Text by Rousseau on the Notion of Climate”

5. Jason KELLY, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, “Making ‘Nature’ in the Anthropocene”

6. Charlee BEZILLA, George Washington University, “L’art de ‘se circonscrire’: Rousseau on Living in the Anthropocene”

Sixth OHAI Conference 2021

Crisis, Community and Oral History
organized by Oral History Association of India
in collaboration with Department of Humanities and Languages, Flame University, Pune

Crisis of any kind, be it human-made or natural, leaves deep impact on human kind. It often takes generations to recover from the impacts, if at all, and the scars remain deep. Floods, droughts and famines, earthquakes, tsunamis and pandemics, the tales of despair and resilience are told and recounted one generation after another. Similarly, crisis/es emerging out of displacement due to wars, communal and ethnic violence, developmental projects etc., leave tales for future generations to learn from. Compounding this, often an authoritarian state and rigid laws could also lead to crisis/es, particularly for marginalised sections of the societies be it the farmers, students, people belonging to minority communities, the tribals and the Dalits. Rigid social customs and segregation/discrimination based on caste, gender, class, ethnicity and religion could lead to crisis also. Narratives through oral histories can help us be aware of the multiple dimensions to crisis/es such as natural, human- induced, political and state induced, along with the coping mechanisms people adopted and the tales of struggles and perseverance of the people. Such narratives and oral histories can help to check such crisis/es and also help form coping mechanisms. With the country having faced multiple crises both pre- and post-independence, the sixth OHAI annual conference will reflect on “Crisis, Community and Oral History” through talks, presentations and invites relevant submissions on the topic.