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Yonatan Malin, assistant professor of music, will speak Oct. 20 on "Music Theory and Humanistic Study: A Brief History and Some Reflections"
during the Center for Humanities Fall Lecture Series. |
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| Posted 09.04.08 |
Center for Humanities Fall Lecture Series Unveiled
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Wesleyan's Center for the Humanities Fall Lecture Series: Figuring "The
Human" begins Sept. 8. with a presentation by Nancy Armstrong,
professor of English at Duke University, titled: "Darwin’s Paradox." The
event will be at 8 p.m. at Russell House.
The fall lecture series is part of the Center for the Humanities’ 50th
anniversary celebration. The lectures are free and the public is welcome to
attend.
Additional presentations
in the series are listed below. All are at 8 p.m. and are held at The
Russell House unless otherwise noted. For more information call
860-685-3044.
4 p.m.
Sept. 15
Thierry Hoquet, professor of philosophy, Université Paris X Nanterre, speaks
on "Our Posthuman Futures: Cyborgs and Mutants in an Evolutionary Perspective."
Sept. 22
Kari Weil, professor of letters, speaks on "Figuring 'The Animal;' A Report on the Animal Turn in Critical Theory."
Oct. 6
Emily Martin, professor of anthropology, New York University, speaks on "Sleepless in America."
Oct. 13
Andrew Curran, associate professor of romance languages, speaks on "Inventing Human Science, circa 1750."
Oct. 20
Yonatan Malin, assistant professor of music, speaks on "Music Theory and Humanistic Study: A Brief History and Some Reflections."
Nov. 3
Jana Sawicki, professor of philosophy and women’s studies, Williams College,
speaks on "Foucault and Sexual Freedom: Why Embrace an Ethics of Pleasure?"
Nov. 10
Wolfgang Natter, professor of political science, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University, speaks on "Director of the Alliance for Social,
Political, Ethical and Cultural Thought, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Universal Particulars: Space, Contingency, Universality."
Nov. 17
Ulrich Plass, assistant professor of German speaks on "Franz Kafka and the State of Exception."
Nov. 24
Hilary Barth, assistant professor of psychology, speaks on "Numerical Thinking: Evolution and Culture."
Dec. 1
Michael Bérubé, Panterno Family Professor in Literature, Pennsylvania State
University, speaks on "Disability Studies and the Boundaries of the Human." |
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