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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series
Spring 2000
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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February 10 |
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"Historicizing Perception"
Jonathan Crary
Associate Professor, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University |
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February 17 |
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"Science and Sentiment: The Nature Poems of Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries"
Maria M. Farland
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature |
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February 24 |
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"The Narrative History of Art and the Limits to a Style"
Jonathan Gilmore
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Philosophy |
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March 2 |
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"From the Museum to the Plantation: The End of Positivism in the German Colonial Empire"
Andrew Zimmerman
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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March 9 |
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"Human Rights and the Media"
Thomas Keenan
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Bard College |
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March 23 |
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"Memory in Richard Strauss’s Fin-de-Siécle Songs"
Suzanne M. Lodato
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Music |
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March 30 |
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"Transnational Contexts for American Studies: An American Studies Colloquium"
Wai-Chee Dimock, Professor of English, Yale University; Joel Pfister, Professor of English, Wesleyan University; Paul Giles, University Lecturer in American Literature, University of Cambridge; Robert Gross, Professor of History, William and Mary |
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April 6 |
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"Peter Gay on His Work in Progress"
Peter Gay
Director, Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library |
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