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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series
Fall 1995
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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October 5 |
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"The Moral Ambiguity of Failure in Nineteenth-Century America"
Scott A. Sandage
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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October 12 |
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"Law and Literature--Judicial Imagination and Maternal Decisions to Withhold Treatment"
Carol Sanger
Visiting Professor, School of Law, Columbia University |
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October 19 |
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"Performance and Democracy: Anna Dea Vere Smith and the American Theater"
Ginger Strand
Alumna, Society of Fellows |
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October 26 |
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"Death--Death Took A Holiday"
Robert Anderson
Playwright, and Howard Stein, Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts and Senior Scholar in the Humanities, Columbia University |
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November 2 |
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"States of the Disciplines: German Studies"
Mark M. Anderson, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Germanic Languages, Columbia University; Jean L. Cohen, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University; David J. Levin, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages, Columbia University; Harro Müller, Professor of Germanic Languages, Columbia University; and Dorothea von Mücke, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Columbia University. Moderator: Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor of Germanic Languages, Columbia University |
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November 9 |
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"Death--Why Not Immortality? A Physician’s Perspective on Living and Dying"
Michael K. Bartalos
M.D., Chair, University Seminar on Death and faculty member, College of Physicians and Surgeons |
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November 16 |
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"New York in the 1920s"
Ann Douglas
Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University |
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November 30 |
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"Death--Colonial Technologies of Death: Sati Under Early British Rule in Western India"
Anne Walters
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Anthropology and History |
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