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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series

Spring 1992
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.

January 30

"Prehistoric and Historic Abandonment at Zuni Pueblo: An Archaeological Report From the Field"
Nan A. Rothschild
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Barnard

February 6

"Ideas of Health and Sickness: America and the UK"
Julia Neuberger
Harkness Fellow and Visiting Fellow at Harvard Medical School

February 13

"Morality and Cooperation"
Liam Murphy
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Philosophy

February 27

"Songs of the Terrestrial City: How Augustine Read Virgil"
Sabine MacCormick
Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, University of Michigan

March 5

"Periodization and Historiography in Arabic Science"
George Saliba
Professor of Middle East Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

March 12

"Turning Frenchman Back Into Peasants: The Uses of Cultural Pluralism in Political Domination, the French in Vietnam, 1917-1931"
Herman Lebovics
Professor of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook

March 26

"Music and Conceptualization"
Mark DeBellis
Assistant Professor of Music, Columbia University, and Alumnus, Society of Fellows

March 31

"The State of the Disciplines: History"
Caroline Walker Bynum, Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor of History, Columbia University; Ann Ramsey, Kenan Fellow in History, Society of Fellows; J.W. Smit, Queen Wilhelmina Professor of History, Columbia University

April 2

"The State of the Disciplines: Art History"
David Freedberg, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University; Natalie B. Kampen, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Barnard; Esther Pasztory, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University; Susan Sidlauskas, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Art History

April 9

"The State of the Disciplines: Music"
Walter Frisch, Associate Professor of Music, Columbia University; Robert Holzer, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Music; Jonathan Kramer, Professor of Music, Columbia University

April 16

"What’s Popular About Popular Drama? Some Thoughts on Medieval Culture and English Plays"
Anne Higgins
Society of Fellows Fellow/Lecturer in Medieval Studies

April 23

"Staging Gender: The Feminine and the Masculine in the Painting of Edouard Vuillard"
Susan Sidlauskas
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Art History




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