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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series

Fall 1996
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.

October 3

"Street Songs and Cheap Print During the French Wars of Religion"
Kate van Orden
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Music

October 10

"Comparative Literature in the Contemporary University"
Mark Anderson, Associate Professor, Germanic Languages; David Damrosch, Professor, English and Comparative Literature; David Der-Wei Wang, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures. Moderator: Karl Kroeber, Mellon Professor of the Humanities, English and Comparative Literature

October 17

"Qur’anic Exegesis in the Francophone Writings of Zaghloul Morsy"
Richard Serrano
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature

October 24

"Law and Literature--Stories of Separation: The Law of Marriage on the American Continen"
Hendrik Hartog
The Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty, History Department, Princeton University

October 31

"Between Knowledge and Wisdom: P. Govinda Pillai’s Speech to the All-Tamil Siddha Medical Third Great Council, Madurai, 1948"
Gary J. Hausman,
Hinduja Fellow with the Society of Fellows

November 7

"Egyptian Ancestors: The Uses of Egyptian Antiquity in Renaissance Italy"
Brian Curran
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Art History and Archaeology

November 14

"Film--The Golden Age of Egyptian Cinema: Films of the 1960s"
Walter Armbrust
Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, Princeton University

November 21

"The Art of Marcel Duchamp. Artistic Tradition and Sources of Inspiration"
Piotr Juszkiewicz
Getty Grant Fellow in the History of Art and the Humanities from Central/ Eastern Europe, visiting with the Society of Fellows




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