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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series

Fall 1993
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.

September 30

"The Song Official Religion and the Reshaping of the Daoist Pantheon during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)"
Anning Jing
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Art History

October 7

"Theory and the Study of Culture: American Studies and British Cultural Studies"
Stanley Aronowitz, Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, City University of New York; Anders Stephanson, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University

October 14

"Memory and Rhetoric"
Naomi Diament, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, and Conrad Leyser, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History

October 21

"Audience and Actors in the American Revolution"
Ginger Strand
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature

October 28

"Rethinking Area Studies: Soviet/East European Area Studies in Transition"
Susan Lehmann, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University; Alexander J. Motyl, Associate Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University; and Mark Von Hagen, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University

November 4

"Rethinking Area Studies: The Middle East"
Peter Awn, Professor of Religion, Columbia University; Richard Bulliet, Director, Middle East Institute and Professor of History, Columbia University; and Hamid Dabashi, Assistant Professor of Middle East Language and Cultures, Columbia University

November 11

"Taking Up Fictional Time: Diegetic Music in Film and Opera"
Alicyn Warren
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Music

November 18

"States of the Disciplines: Comparative Literature"
David Damrosch, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; David L. Pike, Mellon Fellow in French and Comparative Literature, Society of Fellows; and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

December 2

"Metropolis On The Styx"
David L. Pike
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature

December 9

"Rethinking New Art History and Art History Hermeneutics"
Mariusz Bryl
Visiting Getty Fellow in Art History




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