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October 2013
Selector: Judith Arnold
This Subject of the Month guide celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Wayne State University Humanities Center. It features information and visuals of a display of examples of funded scholarly and creative works supported by the Center as well as details about the Center, its mission and accomplishments.
About The Humanities Center
Check the Humanities Center website for information on the Brown Bag Colloquium series, funding opportunities for faculty and graduate students, as well as information on past programs.
Humanities Center 20th Anniversary Celebration Presentation Slides
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Humanities Center 20th Anniversary Celebration
Table Display of Humanities Center Publications
from the Wayne State University Libraries
On September 27, 2013 the Humanities Center celebrated its 20th anniversary with a reception and a talk by noted scholar, Srinivas Aravamudan, Professor and Dean of the Humanities at Duke University. A display of publications and creative works supported by the Humanities Center was featured.
Display: Sample Scholarly & Creative Works funded by The Humanities Center, 1993-2013
Photo of the display in Purdy/Kresge Library featuring materials from the Humanities Center Collection.
Photo of the display in Purdy/Kresge Library featuring articles and library materials available to check out.
Themes in the Scholarly & Creative Works Display
E-books from the Library Collection
Below is a sampling of faculty publications supported by Humanities Center funding available from the Wayne State University Libraries in e-book format.
Felix Guattari by ISBN: 9780230584488Publication Date: 2008-11-05Felix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography , by Franco Berardi 'Bifo', originates in the author's close personal acquaintance with Felix Guattari's writings and political engagement in the context of Berardi Bifo's activism in Italian autonomist politics and his ongoing collaboration with Guattari in the 1970s and 1980s. This biography gains distinction from its keen insight into Guattari's political practice and from a precise understanding of how this practice relates to the theoretical and conceptual aspects of Guattari's writings, alone and with Gilles Deleuze. Thanks to an approach at once personal and theoretically well informed, Bifo's biography provides a clear and accessible introduction to Guattari's works. This edition also includes a critical introduction and a 2005 interview with Bifo on a range of topics relating Guattari's works to the current political conjuncture.
“Women in Late Antique Egypt” by Jennifer Sheridan Moss published in A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by ISBN: 9781405192842Publication Date: 2012-02-20A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world. The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, including: Mother-Goddess Theory; Women in Homer, Pre-Roman Italy, the Near East; Women and the Family, the State, and Religion; Dress and Adornment; Female Patronage; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early Women Saints; and many more Thematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historical themes of continuity, development, and innovation Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceived notions relating to women in antiquity Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholars associated with the study of women in antiquity
The Syntax of Nonsententials by ISBN: 9027233578Publication Date: 2006-09-13This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials, which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses (Me; Me First!; Him worry?!; Class in session), and whose distinguishing property is the absence of Tense, and, with it, any syntactic phenomena that rely on Tense, including structural Nominative Case. Arguably, the lack of Tense specification is also responsible for the dearth of indicative interpretations among nonsententials, as well as for their heavy reliance on pragmatic context. So pervasive is nonsentential speech across all groups, including normal adult speech, that a case can be made that continuity of grammar lies in nonsentential, rather than sentential speech.
. “A Model Collaborative Couple in Genetics: Anna Rachel Whiting and Phineas Westcott Whiting’s Study of Sex Determination in Habrobracon.” by Marsha Richmond in For Better or for Worse? Collaborative Couples in the Sciences by ISBN: 9783034802857Publication Date: 2012-06-07In this volume, a distinguished set of international scholars examine the nature of collaboration between life partners in the sciences, with particular attention to the ways in which personal and professional dynamics can foster or inhibit scientific practice. Breaking from traditional gender analyses which focus on divisions of labor and the assignment of credit, the studies scrutinize collaboration as a variable process between partners living in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who were married and divorced, heterosexual and homosexual, aristocratic and working-class and politically right and left. The contributors analyze cases shaped by their particular geographical locations, ranging from retreat settings like the English countryside and Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to university laboratories and urban centers in Berlin, Stockholm, Geneva and London. The volume demonstrates how the terms and meanings of collaboration, variably shaped by disciplinary imperatives, cultural mores, and the agency of the collaborators themselves, illuminate critical intellectual and institutional developments in the modern sciences.
