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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series
Fall 1991
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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September 19 |
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"Constitutionalism After the Cold War"
Louis Henkin
University Professor Emeritus and Special Service Professor, Columbia University |
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September 26 |
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"Nourishing the Beast: Some Observations About the Development and Production of Theatre in America Today"
John Nassivera
Producing Director, American Theatre Works, Inc., Director, Dorset Colony for Writers, and Alumnus, Society of Fellows |
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October 3 |
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"Piety and Politics in the Early Counter Reformation"
Ann Ramsey
Kenan Fellow in History, Society of Fellows |
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October 10 |
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"The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism"
Gwendolyn Wright
Professor of Architecture and History, Director, Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University |
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October 17 |
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"The State of the Disciplines: Philosophy"
Arthur C. Danto, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University; Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Philosophy; Liam Murphy, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Philosophy; Sidney Morgenbesser, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University |
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October 24 |
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"Who Isn’t Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Bloomsbury Revisited"
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
London University and author of Virginia Woolf, Life and London |
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October 31 |
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"Conceptual Change"
Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Philosophy
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November 14 |
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"The State of the Disciplines: Literature"
Jean Franco, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; Anne Higgins, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Medieval Studies; James Shapiro, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
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December 5 |
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"Appearances on Stage: Women and the History of the American Theater"
Faye E. Dudden
Associate Professor of History, Union College, and author of Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America
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December 12 |
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"Social Kingship, Interpretation, and the Literary Minefield"
Eric Huberman
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Indian Languages and Literatures
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