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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series
Spring 1991
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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January 31 |
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"The Rhetoric of Variation: Haydn, Mozart, and the 'Musical Link-Sausage'"
Elaine Sisman
Associate Professor, Department of Music, Columbia |
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February 7 |
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"If the Sexual Division of Labor is so Natural, then why am I Feeling so Alienated"
Laura Lee Downs
Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan/Society of Fellows alumna ('87-'88) |
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February 14 |
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"The Society of Fellows: Formation and Early Years"
William Theodore deBary
John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University at Columbia |
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February 21 |
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"Bodies and Souls: The Campaign of 'Godly Discipline' in Seventeenth-Century Aberdeen"
Gordon DesBrisay
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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March 7 |
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"From Modernity to Modernism: Logos, Images, and Critical Theory"
Joanna Drucker
Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Critical Theory, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia |
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March 14 |
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"War and Citizenship in America: The Gulf War in Context"
Allan Silver
Professor, Department of Sociology, Columbia |
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March 28 |
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"The Shepherd and the Weaver: Two Platonic Paradigms"
James A. Coulter
Professor, Department of Classics, Columbia
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April 4 |
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"American Indian Literature and Contemporary Criticism”
Karl Kroeber
Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Columbia
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April 11 |
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"Some Lines of Intellectual History and the Present State of the Humanities”
Felix Martinez-Bonita
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia
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April 18 |
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"’The Poorest He That is in England Hath a Life to Live as the Greatest He’: The Putney Debates, 1647"
Cecilia DesBrisay
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Philosophy |
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