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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September 13 |
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"The Expressive Interior in Nineteenth-Century Painting"
Susan Sidlauskas
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Art History and Archaeology |
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September 20 |
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"Historical Perspectives on Italian Music of the Seventeenth-Century"
Robert Holzer
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Music |
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September 27 |
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"The Demands of Morality"
Liam Murphy
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Philosophy |
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October 4 |
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"Work and Plays: Guild Casting in Early English Drama"
Anne Higgins
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature |
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October 11 |
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"A Thematic Approach to Ancient Greek Painting and Mosaic: Battles, Hunts, Abductions"
Ada Cohen
Society of Fellow/Lecturer in Art History and Archaeology |
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October 18 |
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"The History of the Core Curriculum and Humanities Programs at Columbia College"
William Theadore de Bary
John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University at Columbia |
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October 25 |
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"Olmec Colossal Heads: The Problem of Realistic Representation and the Evolution of Art"
Esther Pasztory
Chair of the Society of Fellows/Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology
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November 1 |
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Reading: The Postmodern Condition by Jean-Francois Lyotard
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November 8 |
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Reading: "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative," from Roland Barthes' Image Music Text, and "The Two Principles of Narrative" and "Reading as Construction" from Genres in Discourse by Tzvetan Todorov.
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November 15 |
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Reading: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, parts 1 and 4, by Jürgen Habermas.
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November 29 |
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"Moral Realism, or Making Ends Meet"
Felman John Davis
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Albany |
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December 9 |
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"The Doctor of Philosophy"
William Clark
Kenan Fellow/Lecturer in History |
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