Seminar Scholars

David Depew (Seminar Director)
Communication Studies, The University of Iowa
The Invention of Biology: Göttingen 1800

John F. García
Classics, The University of Iowa
On Translating Homer: Linguistic Relativity and the Modernization of Classical Studies

Daniel Gross
Rhetoric, The University of Iowa
Does Experience Have a Gender? The Anxiety of Influence in David Simple and David Hume

John S. Nelson
Political Science, The University of Iowa
Myth, Ideology, Science, and More?

Frederick Skiff
Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa
Maxwell and Modernity

John P. Jackson, Jr.
Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Rise of Antiracist Science and the Politics of Social Construction

Christopher Kuipers
English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine
New Philology: The Contemporary Emergence of Interdisciplinary Humanities

Claudia Moscovici
Modern Languages and Literature, Boston University
Dystopic Utopias: The making and undoing of French Democratic Political Theory

John Poulakos
Communication, University of Pittsburgh
From the Depths of Rhetoric: The Emergence of Aesthetics as a Discipline

Visiting Speakers

J.E. McGuire
History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
The Theological Origins of the Modern Concept of Nature

James Porter
Classics, University of Michigan
Transformations of Classical Philology

Phillip Sloan
Program of Liberal Studies, Notre Dame University
Origins of Biology

Graduate Research Assistants

Rachel Avon, Ph.D. Candidate, Rhetoric
Rosemary Steck, Ph.D. Candidate, Rhetoric

 

For information about the seminar, contact the Obermann Center for Advance Studies, The University of Iowa, N134 Oakdale Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242 319 335-4034, jay-semel@uiowa.edu