All lectures are held in the Common Room on the second floor of the Heyman Center, which is located in the East Campus Residential Center of Columbia University. Lectures are free and lunch is provided.
February 28 |
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"Sociality of Neoliberalism: Family, Affect, and Japanese Youth"
Anne Allison Duke University
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March 6 |
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"Biopolitics and the Romantic Sublime"
Mark Canuel
University of Illinois at Chicago |
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March 13 |
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"Making World Literature: J. M. Coetzee and the Transnational Novel"
Rebecca Walkowitz
Rutgers University |
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March 27 |
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“Waiting, Hoping, Among the Ruins of All the Rest”
Kaja Silverman
University of California, Berkeley |
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April 3 |
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"Performance and Intangible Cultural Heritage"
Diana Taylor
New York University |
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April 10 |
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"Toward a Robust Historicism: Historical Practice in a Post Positivist Environment"
John Zammito
Rice University |
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April 17 |
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"A Disputed Leonardo: Science and the Educated Eye in the Twentieth Century"
John Brewer
California Institute of Technology |
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April 24 |
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"Medicine and Buddhism, Science and Religion: Category Worries in 17th Century Tibet"
Janet Gyatso
Harvard University |