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 25 |
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"'Tacito Incognito': Opera as History in 'L’Incoronazione di Poppea': Creek Indian History in the Context of the Atlantic World, 1783-1816"
Wender Heller
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Music |
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October 2 |
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"Wicked Writing: Creek Indians and the Trouble With Literacy in the Eighteenth Century"
Claudio Saunt
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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October 9 |
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"Culture and Architecture"
Epee Ellong
Architect and Writer from Cameroon |
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October 16 |
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"Civic Nationalism in Jacobean City Comedy"
Jean Howard
Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature |
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October 23 |
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"Wagner and the Quest for the Autonomous Musical Voice"
Lydia Goehr
Professor, Department of Philosophy |
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October 30 |
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"The Aesthetics of Empire: Landmarks, Landmarking, and the Interior Expedition"
D. Graham Burnett
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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November 6 |
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"The Color of Gender: On Sex Determination and Embryological Development in the Caraka and Susruta-Samhitas"
Martha Selby
Hinduja Fellow with the Society of Fellows |
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November 13 |
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"Upsetting Newton’s Applecart, or Whatever Happened to Inertia? Some Comments on the Arts and Sciences in the Romantic Century"
Martin Meisel
Brander Matthews Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature |
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