Kaplan Conversations
Ninety minutes of interdisciplinary discussion of research by Kaplan Institute associates.
Kaplan Conversations are held on Wednesdays, 12 noon - 1:30 pm CST. If you are interested in attending a Kaplan Conversation lunch seminar, please email thomas.burke@northwestern.edu.
2024-2025 Kaplan Conversations
Fall 2024
October 2 - Welcome KC
October 16 - Faculty Fellow
Pens and Needles: Toni Morrison, Quilts, and Community Tracy Vaughn-Manley (Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies; Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished University Professor of Instruction)
November 6 - Postdoctoral FellowMoving On: Houselessness in Victorian Literature
Trish Bredar (Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Humanities, Kaplan Humanities Institute)
November 20 - Faculty FellowBluster: Bourgeois Anxiety and Expository Style in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
Erica Weitzman (Associate Professor, Department of German)
Winter 2025
January 15 - Faculty FellowMadea’s Baby, Tyler’s Maybe: Tyler Perry on Stage and in Film, 1997-2019
Miriam Petty (Associate Professor, Department of Radio/Television/Film; Associate Dean for Academic Programs, The Graduate School)
January 29 - Library Fellow
Understanding the Roots of Political Music: The Political Themes of the Music of Max Cavalera
Michael Perry (Head of Assessment and Planning, Northwestern University Libraries)
February 12 – Faculty Fellow
Conditions of Meaning: An Ethnography of Mind-Body Illness
Rebecca Seligman (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Program in Global Health Studies)
February 19 – Faculty Fellow
An Ethics of Love: Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy
Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Professor, Department of Philosophy; Director of the Brady Program in Ethics and Civic Life)
Spring 2025
April 23 – Faculty Fellow
In the Frame: Organizing and Delimiting the Moving Image from Virtual Reality to Cinema
Ariel Rogers (Associate Professor, Department of Radio/Television/Film)
April 30 – Faculty Fellow
Feeling Like the Global South: Recoding Digital Bahdala in the MENA
Heather Jaber (Assistant Professor in Residence, Communication and Liberal Arts Programs, Northwestern Qatar)
May 2 (Friday) – Future Directions Forum
Presentation of Franke Fellows' research; event is 9am to 3pm
May 7 – Faculty Fellow
Dear Whiteness: Poems
Charif Shanahan (Assistant Professor, Department of English)
Previous Years
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