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Annual humanities conference to focus on violence

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The sixth annual Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) spring conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kicks off on April 1 (Thursday) with a keynote address by Dominick La Capra.

La Capra, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, will discuss “Disciplinarity, Cross-Disciplinarity and the Problem of Violence.” His talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana.

Presentations by IPRH postdoctoral, faculty and graduate student fellows will run from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 2 (Friday), also in the Levis Center. The theme of the conference is “Violence,” which also is IPRH’s overall theme this year.

Panels will run consecutively on three topics: “Violence as Public Spectacle,” “Violence and the Other” and “Violence and Its Sublimation.” Panel chairs are Andrew Herscher, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the program in comparative and world literature; Ellen Moodie, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of anthropology; and Michael Rothberg, English and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.

Panelists include: Ravinder Bhavnani, political science; Lisa Marie Cacho, IPRH Postdoctoral Fellow in English; Jennifer Edwards, history; Andrea Goulet, French; Philip Graham, English; Stephen Hageman, history; Stephen Hartnett, speech communication; Jin-Hee Lee, East Asian languages and cultures; Darren Mulloy, IPRH Postdoctoral Fellow in speech communication; Rothberg; Robert Rushing, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; Joy Sather-Wagstaff, anthropology; Joseph Swenson, philosophy; and Jeffrey Sychterz, English.

Conference organizers are Christine Catanzarite and Matti Bunzl. A complete schedule is available at the conference Web site.

For more information, call IPRH at 217-244-3344.

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