| TUESDAY 12.1.2009 |
MODERNISM (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Melanie Benson (Dartmouth College). "Globalization, Transnationalism, and the Problem of Native American Studies" |
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ISLAM IN THE WEST LECTURE SERIES
Jytte Klausen (Brandeis University). “The Cartoons that Shook the World”
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| WEDNESDAY 12.2.2009 |
MUSIC DEPARTMENT: BLODGETT CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES
The Chiara Quartet
Beethoven Cycle, concert 1 of 6
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135
String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18 No. 4
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1
Blodgett concerts are free but passes are required. Free passes available beginning two weeks prior to concert from Harvard Box Office in the Holyoke Center Arcade, Harvard Square. 617-496-2222.
Free parking for this concert available at Broadway garage, corner of Felton St. and Broadway.
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall |
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| THURSDAY 12.3.2009 |
LAURO DE BOSIS LECTURES ON ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
Elizabeth Cropper (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, D.C.). “Bolognese Tradition or Florentine Rebirth?: Malvasia's History of Art”
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ARCHITECTURE AND KNOWLEDGE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Event details to be announced. |
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| FRIDAY 12.4.2009 |
MODERN GREEK LITERATURE AND CULTURE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek
Fictional Writing & The 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies.
After the highly successful 1st Biennial International Conference on Modern
Greek Studies in December 2007, which was dedicated to the work of C. P. Cavafy,
the Program of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard-George Seferis Chair announces
the 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek
Fictional Writing, December 4-5, 2009.
Please take note that the 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern
Greek Studies will be also held in the frame of this Conference on December
4rth, at 6:30 P.M. in 202 Harvard Hall. The Keynote Speaker, Professor
Elizabeth Jeffreys, Oxford University, will be talking on the topic of “Digenes
Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative.”
The conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee and the
Department of the Classics.
Full details of both these events are offered in the Program of the Conference
below, as well as on our website
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html):
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SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Karen Britland (University of Wisconsin). Talk title to be announced. Reception at 5:30 p.m. |
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| SATURDAY 12.5.2009 |
MODERN GREEK LITERATURE AND CULTURE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek
Fictional Writing & The 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies.
After the highly successful 1st Biennial International Conference on Modern
Greek Studies in December 2007, which was dedicated to the work of C. P. Cavafy,
the Program of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard-George Seferis Chair announces
the 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek
Fictional Writing, December 4-5, 2009.
Please take note that the 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern
Greek Studies will be also held in the frame of this Conference on December
4rth, at 6:30 P.M. in 202 Harvard Hall. The Keynote Speaker, Professor
Elizabeth Jeffreys, Oxford University, will be talking on the topic of “Digenes
Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative.”
The conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee and the
Department of the Classics.
Full details of both these events are offered in the Program of the Conference
below, as well as on our website
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html):
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| MONDAY 12.7.2009 |
MEDIEVAL STUDIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Details to be announced. |
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BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
James Robson (Harvard University). “Madness and Monasteries: On the Buddhist Institutions and Their Neighbors in
Iwakura” |
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HISPANIC CULTURES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Mercedes Vaquero (Brown University). "Ensamblaje del 'Cantar de la partición de los reinos'"
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| TUESDAY 12.8.2009 |
CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Brian Breed (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). "Horace and the grammarians: Literary history in Satires 1" |
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| THURSDAY 12.10.2009 |
WOMEN AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Helga Duncan (Stonehill College). "Female Libertinism and Sacred Space in Aphra Behn's Love Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister" |
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COGNITIVE THEORY AND THE ARTS (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Joshua Greene (Harvard University).
"What Psychology Can and Cannot Do for Ethics" |
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| SATURDAY 12.12.2009 |
RENAISSANCE STUDIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
"New Turns in Literary Studies of The French Renaissance: A Graduate Student Forum" |
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