Fall 2025 Semester
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details
First Presenter: Rachel Al Rubai, 1:00-2:00 pm
Title: Blaesilla and Eustochium: Jerome’s Idealization of Ascetic Sisters in Fourth Century Rome
Respondent: Judith Newman
Second Presenter: Alif Shahed, 2:00-3:00 pm
Title: Memoirs of a Riverbank: Langalbandh from Colonial Management to Postcolonial Development
Respondent: Dr. Nusrat Jahan Mim (iSchool/Daniels Faculty of Architecture)
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details
First Presenter: Janani Mandayam Comar, 1:00-2:00 pm
Title: Caste, Literature, and Reading Publics: the Nantaṉār Carittiram in colonial and postcolonial Tamil country
Respondent: Reid Locklin
Second Presenter: Jesse Pruitt, 2:00-3:00 pm
Title: Backtracking from Beauty: A Study of the Murugan-Subrahmanya Consortium in Colonial Chennai
Respondent: J. Barton Scott
Winter 2026 Semester
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 1:00-2:00 pm → More details
Presenter: Julie Sharff
Title: Conceiving Birth Narratives in Jewish Literature
Respondent: Pamela Klassen
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 1:00-2:00 pm → More details
First Presenter: Bryon Maxey, 1:00-2:00 pm
Title: Year of the Elephant: An African ‘Book People’ in the Qur’an and Late Antique Arabia
Respondent: Suleyman Dost
Thursday, April 2, 2026, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details
First Presenter: Sara Sharpe, 1:00-2:00 pm
Title: The Shtetl of Ottynia: Grasping a Destroyed World
Respondent: Anna Shternshis
Second Presenter: Ridhima Sharma, 2:00-3:00 pm
Title: Building, Hustling, Creating: Entreprenurial Thought and Hindutva in "New India"
Respondent: Bhavani Raman (Department of History)
Thursday, April 23, 2026, 12:00-2:00 pm → More details
First Presenter: Nico Sarian, 12:00-1:00 pm
Title: The Oblations of a Kelly Bag: Luxury and Logic of Sacrifice
Respondent: John Paul Ricco (Department of Visual Studies, UTM)
Second Presenter: Ankita Choudhary, 1:00-2:00 pm
Title: Believers of Maula Ali: Non-Shi'i Taziya Artisans of Lucknow and their devotional labour
Respondent: Francis Cody (Department of Anthropology)