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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series
Fall 1992
Thursdays at 12:15
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.
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October 1 |
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"The Silence of Love: Aesthetics and Politics in Wordsworth’s Poetry"
Adrienne Donald
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature |
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October 8 |
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"States of the Disciplines: Women’s Studies"
Jean Howard, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; Natalie B. Kampen, Chair, Women’s Studies, and Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Barnard College; Afsaneh Najmabadi, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Barnard College |
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October 15 |
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"Essentialism and the ‘Rule of Law’ in Colonial Discourse"
Vinay Lal
Kenan Fellow in History, Society of Fellows |
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October 22 |
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"The Moral Assessment of Social Institutions"
Thomas Pogge
Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University |
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October 29 |
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"The Feast of Poetry: Sacrifice and Performance in Aristophanic Comedy"
Pavlos Sfyroeras
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Classics |
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November 5 |
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"The Boundaries of Holocaust Literature: The Emergence of a Canon"
Naomi Diamant
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature |
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November 12 |
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"Beyond Area Studies: The Case of Japan"
Paul Anderer, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University; Eric Huberman, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Indian Languages and Literatures; Henry Smith II, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
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November 19 |
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"The Rhetoric of Sublime in Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony"
Elaine Sisman
Chair, Society of Fellows and Associate Professor of Music, Columbia University
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December 3 |
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"'A Tissue of Clever Falsehoods': The Late Roman Rhetoric of Rhetoric "
Conrad Leysar
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History
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