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The 19th Century as a Crisis of Qi
China historian Ruth Rogaski from Vanderbilt University will be giving a talk at the Indiana Memorial Union as part of Indiana University Bloomington's Nineteenth Century Modernities Colloquium.
Where
Friday April 2
University Club of the Indiana Memorial Union
1:00 pm Michael Leja (Art History, University of Pennsylvania), “Problems in Early Mass Visual Culture”
2:30 pm Coffee Break
2:45 pm Jan Goldstein (History, University of Chicago), "Political Affiliations of the Flesh in Nineteenth-Century France."
4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:15 pm Jane Thrailkill (English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina), "Darwin's Children: Henry James, Stephen Crane, and the Art of Immaturity"
Reception: 5:30-6:30 pm Faculty Club
Saturday April 3
Walnut Room in the Indiana Memorial Union
9:30 am Ruth Rogaski (History, Vanderbilt University) “The 19th Century as a Crisis of Qi”
10:45 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara), “Mapping a Mobile Land: Landscape and Governance in Colonial India."
1:30 pm Lara Kriegel (History, Florida International University), "’A New Order of Valour’: The Victoria Cross, the Crimean War, and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Modernity”
3:00-4:00 pm Roundtable with
Sarah Burns (Art History, Indiana University)
Michael Dodson (History, Indiana University)
Rebecca Spang (History, Indiana University)
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