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The Denbo Center<\/p>\n\n\n

Conversations and Cocktails<\/h1><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sharing the exciting research of UT\u2019s faculty with the public!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Conversations & Cocktails is a free public lecture and discussion series that showcases the original research of our distinguished UT arts and humanities faculty. Join us as we feature groundbreaking work exploring a wide range of topics in the arts and in humanities fields such as philosophy, history, and literature studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentations are 30\u201340 minutes long, are held as webinars on Zoom, and are designed for the general public. A spirited question-and-answer discussion follows each presentation. You can check the Zoom Help Center<\/a> to learn more about setting up an account and joining a meeting. Contact us if you have any questions at humanitiesctr@utk.edu<\/a> or 865-974-4222!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Past Events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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March 19, 2026
<\/strong>Conversations & Cocktails: \u201cHow Cormac Works\u201d with Bill Hardwig<\/em><\/div><\/h2>
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Talk Title:<\/strong> \u201cHow Cormac Works\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do we even mean by style? Sometimes a politically charged word and other times a quaint nod to earlier forms of evaluative scholarship, style is foundational to so much of literary studies, but also often absent from our discussions about the literature. This talk will explore the possibilities of thinking about style through a \u201csurface reading\u201d of the fiction of Cormac McCarthy, a writer revered by some and critiqued by others as a writer concerned deeply with questions of style and language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This talk is part of the 2026 Conversations & Cocktails series at the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts. The series is a free public lecture and discussion series that showcases the original research of our distinguished UT arts and humanities faculty. Join us as we feature groundbreaking work exploring a wide range of topics in the arts and in humanities fields such as philosophy, history, and literature studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill Hardwig is Associate Professor and former Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee. He has published numerous works on US regional writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including his book Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870-1900<\/em>. This event\u2019s talk emerges from his most recent book How Cormac Works: McCarthy, Language, and Style<\/em> (2025).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n\n\n

April 16, 2026
<\/strong>Conversations & Cocktails: \u201cTasting the South\u201d with Natalie Graham<\/em><\/div><\/h2>
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Talk Title:<\/strong> \u201cTasting the South\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This virtual presentation explores the lush and varied ways that chefs and authors imagine the South through the recipes, narratives, and images of their cookbooks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This talk is part of the 2026 Conversations & Cocktails series at the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts<\/a>. The series is a free public lecture and discussion series that showcases the original research of our distinguished UT arts and humanities faculty. Join us as we feature groundbreaking work exploring a wide range of topics in the arts and in humanities fields such as philosophy, history, and literature studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natalie J. Graham, a native of Gainesville, Florida, earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Florida and Ph.D. in American Studies from Michigan State University. An award-winning poet and scholar, she served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Orange County, California, 2021-2023. In August 2024, she joined the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as a professor in Africana Studies and currently serves as the Interim Department Head.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n\n\n

April 25, 2024
<\/strong>\u201cRenaissance Sport: An Athletic Art<\/em>\u201d with<\/em> Kelli Wood<\/em><\/div><\/h2>
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Talk Title: <\/strong>\u201cRenaissance Sport: An Athletic Art\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register here for the Zoom link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This talk will explore the development of the athletic arts in Renaissance Italy as they responded to intellectual, courtly, and civic revivals of antiquity as well as to an unprecedented expansion of artisanal and professional work related to leisure. In the sixteenth century exercises which emphasized agility over brute strength increasingly gained prominence as venues for the maintenance of physique and the performance of aristocratic masculine virtue during social and political conduct. A rhetorical slippage between sport and war frequently ascribed the virtues of virility to aristocratic athletes. The rising need for a professional class of athletes paid to perform on the street and as salaried members of courts\u2014experts who also wrote about and taught their athletic arts\u2014alongside the rising need for craftsmen to produce and manage equipment and spaces, proved a complication to the maintenance and perception of social hierarchies. Sports were a central tool in literally and imaginatively shaping the bodies of early modern men and women within intersecting systems of bodily signification, political performance, and social decorum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelli Wood, Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor in the School of Art, is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer, and curator whose work combines methods from fields such as art history, game studies, sports science, and museology. Dr. Wood\u2019s research on the visual and material culture of games and sports spanning from Renaissance board games to contemporary video games has been published in journals such as Art History<\/em>, Renaissance Studies, ArLis,<\/em> and in edited volumes and art magazines. Her first book based on her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, The Art of Play in Early Modern Italy<\/em>, is under contract with Amsterdam University Press. In 2021-2022 Wood undertook an NEH-Mellon Fellowship in Digital Publication for her project on digitizing board games from the Renaissance as playable video games. Her new scholarly projects also turn toward sixteenth and seventeenth-century Goa, India as a port city including recently as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to India in 2022-2023. Wood\u2019s research has also been generously supported by the Fulbright Italy, a Kress fellowship at the National Gallery of Art, the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the Renaissance Society of America. Wood curated a permanent wing of the Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, A Global History of Sport, which opened in 2022 in anticipation of the FIFA World Cup. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n\n\n

April 4, 2024<\/strong>
\u201cHow the Nazis Made Disinformation Appealing\u201d with Daniel Magilow<\/em><\/div><\/h2>
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Talk Title: <\/strong>\u201cHow the Nazis Made Disinformation Appealing\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register here for the Zoom link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In interwar Germany, photographically illustrated magazines informed and entertained readers much as television and the internet do today. And they were equally popular, with millions of copies circulating each week. Yet surprisingly, little scholarship exists about one of the most influential illustrated titles: the Illustrierter Beobachter<\/em> (Illustrated Observer<\/em>), the Nazi Party\u2019s official illustrated magazine. This talk revisits this popular Nazi publication in which antisemitic screeds and excerpts from Mein Kampf<\/em> occupied the same pages as swastika-shaped crossword puzzles, cartoons, and ads for toothpaste. In a manner that sheds light on contemporary strategies of media disinformation, this talk examines how the Nazis\u2019 enormously consequential tabloid paradoxically copied the cosmopolitan and modernist-inspired visual style of politically mainstream illustrated titles to advance anti-modern, anti-Enlightenment, and anti-democratic ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel H. Magilow is Lindsay Young Professor of German as well as an affiliated faculty member with the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Jewish Studies, the Cinema Studies Program, and the Department of History at UT. He earned his BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and his MA and PhD in German from Princeton University. With Helene Sinnreich, Dr. Magilow serves Co-Editor-in-Chief of Holocaust and Genocide Studies<\/em>. He serves on the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dr. Magilow\u2019s teaching and research, which have been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Getty Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Blavatnik Archive, and the University of Tennessee Humanities Center, center on photography and film and their intersections with Holocaust Studies, Weimar Germany, and postwar memory. Alongside many articles, book chapters, and reviews focusing on photography, film, and memorials, he is the author, co-author, editor, or translator of the several books.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n\n\n

November 30, 2023
<\/strong>\u201cThe Hidden Dimensions of Greek Heroes and Myth\u201d with Justin Arft<\/em><\/div><\/h2>
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Talk Title: <\/strong>\u201cThe Hidden Dimensions of Greek Heroes and Myth\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Greek mythology still captures our attention and invites constant reinvention, there are
\u201chidden\u201d dimensions to these stories that are not apparent when we just read them in
translation, namely their ancient performance as oral, verbal art and Greek culture\u2019s
engagement with heroes in cult. This Conversations & Cocktails will introduce you to how
mythology was performed in the ancient world and how the Greeks envisioned their heroes as
powerful, troubled figures from a doomed era of mortals but ones who also survived as
powerful, sometimes helpful figures in cult practice. The heroes of myth were defined by their
ability to suffer and cause suffering, making the performances of their stories opportunities for
reflection on culture, meaning, and mortality. For the Greeks, performance of myth was a
communal way to remember a past alien to their own experience, but one still useful for
defining and differentiating their own culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justin Arft is an associate professor of Classical Studies whose main research focus is on ancient
Greek poetry and comparative oral epic. Arft has authored articles on the technical
dimensions of Homeric poetry with an eye to comparative examples of how other cultures
perform oral epic, and his recent book, Arete and the Odyssey\u2019s Poetics of Interrogation<\/em> (Oxford
2022), applies interdisciplinary methods to address a long-standing problem in Homeric studies,
namely the role of Arete, the Phaeacian queen, in the Odyssey. By analyzing an Indo-European
interrogation formula seen across many bodies of literature and in Greek funerary texts, Arft
argues that Arete serves as a gatekeeper for Odysseus\u2019 journey and the epic\u2019s own quest to
define him as a hero of homecoming. His future projects will focus on the broader role of
Greek heroes in ancient epic and how the Greeks used marginalized and non-heroic characters
in these stories to critique them.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n\n\n

November 2, 2023
<\/strong>\u201cInventing Our Golden Years\u201d with Ernest Freeberg<\/em><\/div><\/h2>
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Talk Title: <\/strong>\u201cInventing Our Golden Years\u201d

Sixty years ago, Americans began to invent a new phase of life, those years between work and old age dependency that we call \u201cretirement.\u201d So entrenched in our culture has this idea become that we often consider this a natural part of the life span, but the modern experience of retirement is actually a post-World War Two creation. Reviewing the history of how Americans have come to understand and live their retirement years, this talk will explore our ambivalent and evolving relationship to our jobs, our culture of leisure, and our anxieties about aging. Starting in the mid-20th century, the search many Americans embarked upon for a \u201cgood retirement\u201d has been a search for meaning; and so, the origin and evolution of retirement provides a vantage point from which we can reflect on what we think constitutes a life well and fully lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Speaker:
<\/strong>Ernest Freeberg<\/a>\u2019s teaching and research interests center on the cultural and intellectual history of the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. His books have examined the history of disability, the origin of civil liberties and free speech doctrine in America, the impact of technology and invention on American life, and the founding of the movement to protect animal rights.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n\n\n

October 5, 2023
<\/strong>\u201cThe Reparative Remake in Contemporary American Cinema\u201d with Eleni Palis<\/em><\/div><\/h2>
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Talk Title: <\/strong>\u201cThe Reparative Remake in Contemporary American Cinema\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reparations and reparative justice become increasingly common buzz words in American public life. These ideas extend from law, legal proceedings, and theories of justice to education, public memory, and literary theory. They also build on a much longer history of Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and other minoritized intellectuals\u2019 advocacy and activism. When it comes to contemporary American media, how might reparations or reparative justice manifest on-screen? In this talk, cinema studies expert Eleni Palis discusses how film remakes\u2014films that reboot or re-imagine a preexisting film\u2014offer \u201cre-visions\u201d of film history, using Nia DaCosta\u2019s Candyman <\/em>(2021) as an example of a recent \u201creparative remake.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleni Palis is an assistant professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of the book Classical Projections: The Practice and Politics of Film Quotation <\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2022). Her work has also appeared in Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies<\/em>, Screen<\/em>, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies<\/em> (Cinema Journal<\/em>), <\/em>and [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies<\/em>. An article on Jordan Peele\u2019s film authorship is forthcoming from Film Quarterly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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