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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series
Spring 1993
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 4 |
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"Is Liberal Democracy Possible in China?"
Dimon Liu, China Human Rights Foundation; Li Lu, Columbia Law School; William Theodore de Bary, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University, Emeritus |
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February 11 |
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"States of the Disciplines: Religion"
Peter Awn, Professor, Department of Religion, Columbia University; Eric Huberman, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Indian Languages and Literature; Gillian Lindt, Professor of Religion, Columbia University |
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February 18 |
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"Picturing The Picaresque: Lazarillo and Murillo’s Four Figures on a Step"
Janis Tomlinson, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University; Marcia L. Welles, Professor of Spanish, Barnard College |
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February 25 |
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"States of the Disciplines: Medieval Studies"
Caroline Walker Bynum, Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor of History, Columbia University; Kathryn Gravdal, Associate Professor of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University; Richard Landes, Assistant Professor of History, Boston University and Alumnus, Society of Fellows; Conrad Leyser, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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March 4 |
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"The Social Sciences and the Humanities"
Alexander Alland, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University; Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Professor of Sociology and Professor of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University; Allan Silver Professor of Sociology, Columbia University; Harrison White, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University |
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March 11 |
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"Rethinking Area Studies: India"
Eric Huberman, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Indian Languages and Literature; Vinay Lal, Kenan Fellow in History, Society of Fellows; Theodore Riccardi, Jr., Professor of Middle East Languages and Cultures, Columbia University; Gauri Viswanathan, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, and Alumna, Society of Fellows |
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March 25 |
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"The Paralysis of Academic Discourse: The American Scholar Revisited"
Eric Huberman
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Indian Languages and Literature
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April 1 |
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"Primo Levi and the Plain Style"
Naomi Diamant
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
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April 8 |
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"The Arts in an Academic Context"
George Edwards, Associate Professor of Music, Columbia University; Romulus Linney, Professor, School of Arts, Columbia University; Peter Smith, Dean, School of the Arts, Columbia University
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April 15 |
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"Canon, Kanôn, Qânûn: On The Idea of Western Civilization"
Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Philosophy
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