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Institute for the Study of Culture and Society (ICS) is dedicated to understanding cultural history, to reshaping studies in the humanities and the arts in the context of contemporary thought, and to promoting work across disciplines. ICS is housed within the College of Arts and Sciences.


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Current Fellows and Talks, 2010 – 2011

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, at 2:30 p.m.

Cynthia Baron - ICS Fellow (Theater and Film)

"Breaking the Hourglass: Films That Shatter the Illusion Created by Corporate Media About the Corporate Food System"

207 Bowen Thompson Student Union (Mylander room)

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 2:30 p.m.

Maisha Wester - ICS Fellow (English)

"Screams From Shadowed Places: African-American (Re-)Visions of Horror"

201A Bowen Thompson Student Union (Sky Bank Room)

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Monday, October 25, 2010, at 1:30 p.m.

Eftychia Papanikolaou - ICS Fellow (Music)

"Interrogating the Sacred: Beethoven’s Missa solemnis"

201A Bowen Thompson Student Union (Sky Bank Room)

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010, at 2:30 p.m.

Jolie A. Sheffer - ICS Fellow (English)

"The Romance of Race: The Familial Origins of American Multiculturalism, 1880-1930"

207 Bowen Thompson Student Union (Mylander room)

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Future ICS Fellows, 2011-2012


Fall 2011

Heather Elliott-Famularo, School of Art
"Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors"

Ruth Herndon, History
"Children of Misfortune: Growing up Poor in Early New England"

Ellen W. Gorsevski, School of Media and Communication
"Dangerous Women: The Rhetoric of the Women Nobel Peace Laureates"

Spring 2012

Kim Coates, English
"Dancing with Freud: Female Sexuality, Modernist Women, and the Intoxication of Movement"

Dena Elisabeth Eber, School of Art
"Her Mikveh: Holiness of Creation (Kedushat Yetzirah)"

Fellowship Application Form (2011 - 2012)


Please submit by: Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 12pm noon