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| African Studies | The African Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and faculty whose work concerns the material and sociocultural lives of people of the African continent and its discursively constituted diasporas, presently and historically. [view full description] |
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| American Cultures | This workshop strives to promote the canonical diversity and comparative approaches that have become critical to the analysis of American cultures. [view full description] |
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| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy | This workshop will discuss a wide range of issues concerned with ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. In addition to paying close attention to the arguments, we will consider the historical and literary context as well as the reception of ancient philosophy up to the present. [view full description] |
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| Ancient Societies | This workshop intends to inquire how cultural interchange took place, under what circumstances, and with what repercussions. We hope also to pose the question of the general meaningfulness of the term for the study of ancient societies. [view full description] |
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| Anthropolgoy of Europe | This workshop explores current research in the anthropology of Europe and treats ongoing ethnographic fieldwork?local, regional, national, and transnational?in all areas of Europe. [view full description] |
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| Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean | This workshop provides a forum for the presentation, discussion, and critical engagement of anthropological research on Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. [view full description] |
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| Art and Politics of East Asia | The Arts and Politics of East Asia Workshop aims to provide a common intellectual forum for students and scholars investigating the interaction of aesthetics with political economies reflected in textual and visual media of East Asia. [view full description] |
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| China Before Print | This workshop focuses on recent archaelogical discoveries in China and addresses some of the most pressing issues in the study of civilizations. Placing special emphasis on the history of the book. [view full description] |
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City, Society, and Space
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This workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for facult and graduate students to present current research, it allows participants to contribute to the developmet of new understandings of the social structures and processes within the city. |
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| Clinical Ethnography | These workshop meetings provide the opportunity for the faculty and students involved with the clinical ethnography and clinical psychology program to meet together to discuss clinical cultural issues. [view full description] |
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| Comparative Behavioral Biology | Jointly sponsored by the Institute for Mind and Biology and the Committee on Human Development, this workshop brings together individuals broadly interested in how biological and social environments influence social behavior and how behaviors and the environment in turn influence genetic change. [view full description] |
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| Comparative Politics | The common thread running through the research presented in our workshop is the search for broad theoretical propositions and fresh empirical insights through the comparative study of politics. [view full description] |
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| Contemporary Art and Its Histories | Comparative Politics is a broad and methodologically eclectic field. The common thread running through the research presented in our workship is the search for broad theoretical propositions and fresh empirical insights through the comparative study of politics. [view full description] |
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| Contemporary European Philosophy | The Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop aims to foster Continental philosophy in the humanities at the University of Chicago. [view full description] |
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| Contemporary Philosophy | This workshop is a conduit for advanced graduate students in philosophy and related fields to present work in progress on topics relating to contemporary issues in philosophy. [view full description] |
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| Crime and Punishment | The study of crime and punishment has always held a prominent place in the social sciences and professional schools at the University of Chicago. This workshop carries on this tradition. [view full description] |
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| Culture, Life Course, and Mental Health | This workshop builds upon and contributes to the reemergence of "cultural psychology" as the comparative study of the way culture and psyche are constitutive of one another. [view full description] |
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| Early Christian Studies | The purpose of this workshop is to provide a venue for students and scholars of the New Testament, Greco-Roman religions and literatures, and the early history of Christianity to present their creative work on primary texts and other evidence for the early Christian movement and the world in which it grew. [view full description] |
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| Early Modern | This interdisciplinary workshop focuses on every aspect of the early modern experience, circa 1400-1830. [view full description] |
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| Early Modern Philosophy | The purpose of the workshop is to provide a space for discussion of early modern philosophy among faculty and advanced graduate students, to bring to campus scholars working on innovative ideas, and to discuss relevant crucial and difficult texts. [view full description] |
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| East Asia: Politics, Economy, and Society | This workshop focuses on current social science research on East Asian societies, particularly the People's Republic of China, Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. [view full description] |
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| East Asia: Transregional Histories | This workshop invites University of Chicago graduate students and faculty, as well as scholars from other academic communities, to present creative and original work that speaks across the national lines of East Asia as well as the disciplinary lines of the academic community. [view full description] |
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| Education | The Education workshop is a hybrid workshop enabling the advancement of education related research and theory among members of the university in two types of sessions, methodology and new findings in education. [view full description] |
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| Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Cultures | During the years 1660-1900, cultural production achieved unprecedented heterogeneity throughout Britain, its colonial possessions, and Western Europe. The goal of this interdisciplinary workshop will be to interrogate the tensions between this diversified production and the unifying narrative of modernity often imposed on this two hundred and forty year span. [view full description] |
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| Empires and Colonies | Empires and Colonies responds to the need for a shared academic forum for graduate students and faculty whose work is in conversatin with imperial and colonial studies. |
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| EthNoise! Ethnomusicology | The workshop contributes to a growing interdisciplinary discourse on music in its cultural context at the University of Chicago, establishing an interchange between disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. [view full description] |
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| Gender and Sexuality Studies | This workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for the development of critical perspectives on gender and sexuality. [view full description] |
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| Global Environment | The goal of this workshop is to provoke an informed, interdisciplinary dialogue on the various dimensions of how people engage with their environments. [view full description] |
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| Historical Semantics | This workshop provides a forum for students and faculty to present ongoing research in the field of historical semantics and the history of knowledge. In recent decades, hisstorical semantics has become an increasingly influential research program in the German context. [view full description] |
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| History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science | The History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science Workshop is a forum devoted to interdisciplinary approaches to the sciences. [view full description] |
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| Human Rights | As a consequence of the growing relevance of human rights in the contemporary world, this topic has become a vital focus for academic research across disciplines. [view full description] |
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| Immigration | The purpose of the Immigration Workshop is to stimulate and promote the development and discussion of theoretical and empirical research related to international migration and immigrants' experiences. |
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| Interdisciplinary Approaches to American Political History | This workshop provides an important avenue to explore one of the more vigorous developments in the social sciences over the past decade: an interdisciplinary revitalization of the study of American politics from historical perspectives. [view full description] |
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| Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France | This workshop provides a forum for faculty and students from different departments in the social sciences and the humanities who share a common interest in France from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. [view full description] |
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| Interdisciplinary Archaeology | The primary objective of the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop is to forge a healthy, informed dialogue on method and theory that cuts across the field's diverse disciplinary locations. [view full description] |
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| International Politics/PIPES | The workshop's focus is on international cooperation and conflict, with attention to both the politics of the world economy and international security. [view full description] |
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| International Security/PISP | This workshop's activites revolve around a simple and important goal: to serve as a major center for scholarship and graduate student education for deep understanding of mainstream issues of inernational security. |
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| Islam and Modernity | The Islam and Modernity Workshop is predicated on the belief that studying the way Muslim societies and the religon of Islam have interacted with Western modernity poses unique challenges for scholars. |
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| Islamic Art and Artifact | The workshop will explore Islamic culture, history, and identity through archaeological and art historical interpretations. [view full description] |
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| Language and Cognition | This workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and faculty whose work concerns the relation between language and thought, with a particular emphasis this year on the cognitive bases of language learning. |
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| Late Antiquity and Byzantium | We study all aspects of the peoples, cultures, histories, and religions of the late antique and Byzantine world, including the Near Eastern and Slavic worlds, and endeavor to create a forum for communications about recent archaeological discoveries in the region. [view full description] |
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| Latin American History | The workshop is a forum for discussion of novel approaches to Latin American history. [view full description] |
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| Literature and Cultural History in Early Modern East Asia | This workshop aims to explore the cross-disciplinary and transregional understanding of literature and cultural history in early modern East Asia (Ming-Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Choson Korea). [view full description] |
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| Mass Culture | he Mass Culture Workshop is a forum for recent and ongoing academic research on the historical, theoretical, and practical dimensions of modern mass (commercial, consumer, or popular) media, including cinema, television, journalism, popular music, photography, advertising, fashion, public amusements, and computer technology. [view full description] |
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| Medicine, Practice, and Body | This workshop explores practice and experience as a middle ground between the formerly dominant polarities of body as brute materiality on the one hand and as symbolic representation on the other. [view full description] |
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| Medieval Studies | This workshop focuses on the history and culture of the European Middle Ages (c. 500?1500), although it also welcomes participants interested in areas other than Europe. [view full description] |
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| Middle East History and Theory/MEHAT | The Middle East History and Theory Workshop serves as a forum for University students and faculty in the humanities and social sciences to discuss a wide array of academic questions related to the history, societies, culture, and politics of the Middle East. [view full description] |
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| Money and Markets | The Money, Markets, and Consumption Workshop will emphasize the role of ethnographic fieldwork and historical findings to critically analyze economic assumptions. [view full description] |
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| New Media | Over the course of more than fifty years, though particularly in the past two decades, the development of digital technologies and their introduction into the everyday world have altered our personal and collective lives in innumerable ways. [view full description] |
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| Paris Center | This workshop provides a forum for Chicago faculty and students conducting research in Paris to share and discuss their work with their colleagues. [view full description] |
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| Philosophy of Mind | The aim of this workshop is to serve as a focal point at the University for research and discussion in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology. [view full description] |
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| Poetry and Poetics | This workshop is a site of collaboration for all those studying poetry at the University?raduate students, scholars, and poets. [view full description] |
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| Political Communication and Society | The goal of the workshop is to take advantage of this interest to study the political and social aspects of communication. [view full description] |
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| Political Economy | The Political Economy Workshop is organized around rational choice and game theoretic approaches to the study of politics and economies, broadly construed. [view full description] |
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| Politcal Theory | This workshop is a forum for the critical discussion of new research in all varieties of political theory, political philosophy, and moral, social, and legal theory and philosophy, historical and contemporary. [view full description] |
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| Race and Religion | This workshop seeks to address the ideas, meanings, and practices of the sacred within racially marginalized communities [view full description] |
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| Religion and the Social | The Religion and the Social Workshop brings together students and faculty with an interest in the study of religion, both as a domain of social life and a source of ways of thinking about the social. |
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| Renaissance | The emphasis in our Renaissance Workshop will be on cross-disciplinary studies in various aspects?literary, political, theological?of English and Continental culture during the Renaissance: political rhetoric, early modern drama, humanist pedagogy, theological controversy, developments in book publishing, the literature of overseas exploration, and much more [view full description] |
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| Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies | This interdisciplinary workshop addresses the different processes of racialization experienced within groups as well as across groups in sites as diverse as North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Asian Pacific, and Europe [view full description] |
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| Rhetoric and Poetics | The Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop is concerned with the literature and poetry of classical Greece and Rome, considered either on their own terms or in relation to the literature and poetry of other cultures. [view full description] |
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| Russian and East European Studies | The Russian Studies Workshop focuses on Russia and the former Soviet Union, with particular emphasis on Soviet history and developments in post-Soviet Russia and Eastern Europe. [view full description] |
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| Science, Technology, Society, and the State | As the name suggests, this workshop aims to rethink science and technology studies by exploring the matrices of power relations that link systems of scientific knowledge to the contemporary nation-state, processes of globalization, and public and private engineering projects. [view full description] |
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| Semantics and Philosophy of Language | The subject of meaning in natural language is currently investigated both by philosophers and linguists, with different foci, methods, and emphases. The topic of the workshop will be anaphora: the relation between referentially deficient terms and the context of linguistic informationthat is used to compute their meanings. [view full description] |
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| Semiotics: Culture in Context | This workshop seeks to advance research based on a semiotic framework. [view full description] |
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| Social History | The Social History Workshop provides an academic forum for the discussion and development of work which takes seriously social history methodology?ften described as either "history from the bottom up" or the history of everyday life. [view full description] |
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| Social Theory and Evidence | This workshop brings together graduate students and faculty with interests in the production of solid social science. [view full description] |
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| Theory and Practice of Soth Asia/TAPSA | The Theory and Practice in South Asia Workshop is designed to keep faculty and graduate students of social sciences and humanistic disciplines concerned with South Asia in touch with new directions in the field by providing interdisciplinary models of methodological and substantive approaches. [view full description] |
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| United States Locations | The United States Locations Workshop explores the position of North America within antrhopology and related disciplines. |
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| Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia | This workshop is focused on the study of material or visual objects from East Asia (defined broadly to include China, Central Asia, Tibet, Korea, and Japan, and other regions, depending on student interest). [view full description] |
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| Western Mediterranean Culture | This interdisciplinary workshop is dedicated to the study of all aspects of Western Mediterranean culture from 1200-1700. [view full description] |
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| Wittgenstein | The Wittgenstein workshop aims to foster a variety of forms of interdisciplinary research that take their point of departure from a shared interest in Wiggenstein's intellectual achievement. [view full description] |