Dr. Björn Krondorfer, Regents’ Professor and Director of the Martin-Springer Institute, was awarded the invitation to participate in a 2-day seminar on “Borders/Borderlands and the Holocaust” at the University of Texas, Austin (February 18-19, 2024). Regionally organized by experts from the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M/San Antonio, it was supported by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University.
Faculty Research
Assistant Teaching Professor Dr. Kent Linthicum named ASLE Scholar of the Month for February
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) recognized Assistant Teaching Professor of Humanities Dr. Kent Linthicum as their Scholar of the Month for February 2024. Learn more about Dr. Linthicum and his work in the environmental humanities in their feature here.
Professor Paul Donnelly presented at the 51st Annual Conference in South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin in October
Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Paul Donnelly presented a paper, “The Buddhist Goddess Kurukullā and her Rituals of Subjugation” at the 51st Annual Conference in South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin last month.
Abstract: The tantric Buddhist goddess Kurukullā is perhaps the most important of the tantric deities of subjugation (vaśya, vaśīkaraṇa). Kurukullā has been propitiated across the tantric Buddhist world and is especially important in Tibetan cultural areas, with all… Read more
CCS Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters Dr. Alexandra Carpino gave two invited talks in Chicago last month
CCS Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters Dr. Alexandra Carpino gave an invited lecture titled “Marketing Motherhood: Etruscan Case Studies” at Northern Illinois University on Oct. 11 and at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago on October 12, 2023. She discussed how one class of household artifacts – engraved bronze mirrors – depict mothers in particular, in the fourth century BCE.
Marketing Motherhood:… Read more
Assistant Teaching Professor Dr. Katrina Maggiulli presented at the 2023 Society for Literature Science and the Arts “Alien” conference in Tempe, Arizona in October
Assistant Teaching Professor Dr. Katrina Maggiulli presented their paper “Containing Hybrid Threat & Controlling Genetic Futures: Policing Species Borders in Threatened & Endangered Conservation” at the 2023 Society for Literature Science and the Arts “Alien” conference in Tempe, Arizona.
While scientists will typically agree that species boundaries and definitions are difficult (if not impossible) to definitively mark—the processes of evolution producing inherent flux which problematizes their discernibility—nevertheless conservation will often treat species as if they are clearly delineated and actively… Read more
Faculty news: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi invited presentation at Rutgers in October
Congratulations to CCS Professor of Asian Studies and Art History Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi on her recent invited presentation at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on Oct. 17, 2023! Dr. Gulácsi’s presentation, “The Life Cycle of the Sacred: Manichaeans Artifacts and their Curious Preservation at Buddhist Archaeological Sites across Medieval East Central China,” focused on a unique body of text and art that was produced for the purposes of Manichaean communities between the mid 8th and early 11th… Read more