All lectures are held in the Common Room on the second floor of the Heyman Center (except when noted otherwise,) which is located in the East Campus Residential Center of Columbia University. Lectures are free of charge and lunch is provided.
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February 15 |
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Desire for the Enemy: Class Struggle in the Family and Ideological Closure in Stalinish Soviet Cinema (Peasants and Party Card)
Andrey Shcherbenok
Society of Fellows, Columbia University |
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March 8 |
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Interiority and Its Discontents: The Public Desire of the Psychological Novel
David Kurnick
Society of Fellows, Columbia University |
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March 22 |
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Cosmopolitanism, Participation and the Welfare State
George Klosko
University of Virginia |
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March 29 |
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Ritual Introduction to Buddhas and Other Intimate Experiences
David Germano
University of Virginia |
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April 5 |
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The Ethics of Reasoning from Conjecture
Micah Schwartzman
Society of Fellows, Columbia University |
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April 12 |
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The Program Era
Mark McGurl
University of California, Los Angeles |
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April 19 |
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Romance and Revelation: The Auto/biographical Writings of the Twentieth-Century Tibetan Treasure Revealer Sera Khandro
Sarah Jacoby
Society of Fellows, Columbia University |
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April 26 |
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Between Prophecy and Superstition: Dream Interpretation in Contemporary Egypt
Amira Mittermaier
Society of Fellows, Columbia University |
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May 3 |
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The Last Soviet Dreamer: Encounters with Leonid Potemkin
Jochen Hellbeck
Rutgers University |
