Visiting Fellows 2007-08

Cultural Transmission and Disciplinary Change

Michaelmas Term 2007

Professor Roger Hillman
Australian National University
Representations of Gallipoli

Professor Christian Illies
TU, Eindhoven
Irony and Authenticity in Contemporary Architecture

Dr Alice Jenkins
University of Glasgow
Disciplinary Cultures: Negotiating the Boundaries of Literature and Science, 1815-1859

Dr Adam Mosley
University of Swansea
The Case of Cosmography

Dr Deborah Staines
Macquarie University
Remembering the Sonderkommando


Lent Term 2008

Dr Sven Dupre
University of Ghent
Cultures of Optics, 1400-1700: The Changing Images of a Discipline

Dr Shulamith Behr
Courtauld Institute of Art
Ludwig Meidner in Exile and the cycle Leiden der Juden in Polan (Suffering of the Jews in Poland 1942-1945)

Dr James Delbourgo
McGill University, Montreal
The Historical Epistemology of Slavery: Collecting and Empire in the Atlantic World

Professor Evgeny Dobrenko
University Sheffield
National in Form, Socialist in Content: Literary Nation-Building in the Soviet Republics


Easter Term 2008

Professor Alan Scott
University of Innsbruck
Social Sciences at Risk (part of Transatlantic Forum on the Future of Universities)

Professor Ian Balfour
York University, Toronto
Adapting (after Adorno and Benjamin): Filming Literature in and beyond the Culture Industry

Professor Jane Taylor
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Cross-cultural and Trans-historical Exploration of Sincerity