| MONDAY 11.2.2009 |
JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Peter Cole (MacArthur Fellow). "The Dream of the Poem" |
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| TUESDAY 11.3.2009 |
THE NORTON LECTURES
Orhan Pamuk (winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature) on "The Naive and Sentimental Novelist." Lecture 6: "The Center" |
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ISLAM IN THE WEST LECTURE SERIES
Liyakat Takim (author, _The Heirs of the Prophet: Charisma and Religious Authority in Shi‘ite Islam_). “A Minority with Diversity: The Shi‘i Community in America”
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| WEDNESDAY 11.4.2009 |
TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES
Jonathan Lear (John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on
Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, The University of Chicago). "Becoming Human Is Not That Easy" |
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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Roy Horowitz. "'My First Sony': Performance of the Acclaimed Israeli Novel in English" Co-sponsored with Harvard Hillel and the Consulate General of Israel to New England. |
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| THURSDAY 11.5.2009 |
TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES
Jonathan Lear (John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on
Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, The University of Chicago). "Ironic Soul" |
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WOMEN AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Patricia Crouch (Framingham State College). "Making Fragments Whole: Generic Experimentation in Lucy Hutchinson’s Elegies and Life Writings" |
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| FRIDAY 11.6.2009 |
TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES
Seminar with Jonathan Lear (John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, The University of Chicago). Discussants: Cora Diamond
(William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, University of Virginia), Christine M. Korsgaard (Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy), Richard Moran
(Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy), Robert Paul (Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology
and Interdisciplinary Studies) |
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| SATURDAY 11.7.2009 |
MUSIC DEPARTMENT: HARVARD GROUP FOR NEW MUSIC WITH WHITE RABBIT
Sabrina Schroeder// Holding Patterns (for ensemble)
Ann Cleare// Dysmorphia (for viola and cello)
Bert Van Herck// Reconnected (for alto flute and clarinet)
Hillary Zipper// bone-lace (for soprano and flute)
Hannah Lash// Draw (for violin solo)
Karola Obermueller//Einseitige Dialoge (for soprano and piano) |
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| TUESDAY 11.10.2009 |
PRINTS AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Jasper van Putten (Harvard University) and Miranda Mollendorf (Harvard University). Discussion of research on mapping and anatomical illustration for Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge exhibition catalogue |
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| THURSDAY 11.12.2009 |
VISUAL REPRESENTATION, TRANSMISSION, AND TRANSLATION (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Hollis Clayson (Northwestern University). "Episodes from the Visual Culture of Paris in the Era of Thomas Edison"
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COGNITIVE THEORY AND THE ARTS (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Alex Byrne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Perception, Recollection, Imagination" |
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| FRIDAY 11.13.2009 |
CHINA HUMANITIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Tobie Meyer-Fong (Johns Hopkins University).
"Bleached Bones and Unclaimed Corpses: Burying the Dead in Post-Taiping Jiangnan"
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SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Linda McJannet (Bentley College). "'Oranges and Lemons say the Bells of St. Clements's': Domesticating Eastern Commodities on the London Stage" |
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| MONDAY 11.16.2009 |
MEDIEVAL STUDIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University). "The Hand of God and the Hand of the Scribe: Collaboration and Inspiration at the Praemonstratensian Abbey of Arnstein" |
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BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Douglas Duckworth (East Tennessee State University). Talk title to be announced. |
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VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (HUMANITES CENTER SEMINAR)
Carolyn Williams (Rutgers University). Talk title to be announced. |
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HISPANIC CULTURES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
"Una conversación con Sergio Ramírez y Julio Ortega." intervienen Alba Aragón, Eugenio Lanzas y Humberto Delgado |
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| TUESDAY 11.17.2009 |
ISLAM IN THE WEST LECTURE SERIES
Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard University). “Muslims in Europe and the US after 9/11: A Transatlantic Comparison:”
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POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University). (Statistical Sublime: Mayakovsky and Marinetti) |
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| WEDNESDAY 11.18.2009 |
JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Israel Knohl (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem). "From 'Ephraim' the Suffering Son of God to the Dead Messiah 'Son of Joseph'" |
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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Emily Dolan (University of Pennsylvania). "Haydn's Orchestral Legacy" |
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| THURSDAY 11.19.2009 |
GENDER AND SEXUALITY (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Sara Warner (Assistant Professor of Theatre, Cornell University). "The Affective Cartography of the Lesbian Nation" An abstract for this talk is posted here: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/seminars/precirculatedpapers.shtml |
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ARCHITECTURE AND KNOWLEDGE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Laurent Stalder (ETH Zurich). “Licht, Luft, Aircondition” |
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| MONDAY 11.23.2009 |
FRANCE AND THE WORLD (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Michael Kelly (Harvard University). "Poésie Langue Étrangère: Unhoused Poetic Subjects in the Extrême Contemporain" |
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PHILOSOPHY, POETRY, AND RELIGION (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Drew Dalton (Saint Anselm College). "Beyond Satisfaction: Emmanuel Levinas's Metaphysical Longing" |
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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Adam Kirsch (Harvard Magazine). "On the Publication of Gertrude Himmelfarb's _The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot_" |
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BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Elizabeth Morrison (Middlebury College). Talk title to be announced. |
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CONVERSATION: “WHAT DO WE SEE FROM THE MORAL POINT OF VIEW?”
With Frances Kamm (Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Harvard University), Thomas Scanlon (Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, & Civil Polity, Harvard University), and Alex Voorhoeve (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, London School of Economics) |
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