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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series
Spring 1994
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 3 |
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"Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociology: Models and Modes of Cultural Analysis"
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Professor of Sociology and of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University; Andras Szanto, Sociology Department, Columbia University. Moderated by Michael Berkowitz, History Department, Columbia University |
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February 10 |
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"Talking The Talk and Walking The Walk: Translation, Theory and Practice"
Alfred Mac Adam
Professor of Spanish, Barnard College |
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February 17 |
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"States of the Disciplines: Classics"
Helene Foley, Professor of Classics, Barnard; Natalie B. Kampen, Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Barnard; and Pavlos Sfyroeras, Mellon Fellow in Classics, Society of Fellows |
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February 24 |
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"Pre-Modern and Post-Modern"
María Rosa Menocal
R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University |
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March 3 |
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"Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA"
Robert Pollack
Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University |
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March 10 |
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"Sources of Secular Imagination In 'Islamic Societies': Pre-Modernity"
Hamid Dabashi
Associate Professor of Middle East Language and Cultures, Columbia University |
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March 24 |
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"Emerging Paradigms of Wholeness: The Encounter With Academia"
Eric Huberman,Visitng Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College and alumnus, Society of Fellows; Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo Tibetan Studies, and Chair, Religion Department, Columbia University; and Ralph White, Founder and Director, New York Open Center
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April 7 |
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"Translating Historiography: Comparative Thoughts on 'New History' in the United States"
Michael Bentley
Department of History, University of Sheffield, U.K. |
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April 14 |
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"States of Disciplines: Cinema Studies"
Richard Allen, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University; Gertrude Koch, Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Germanic Languages, Columbia University and Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Bachum; and James Schamus, Assistant Professor, Film Division in the School of the Arts, Columbia University
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April 21 |
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"A Reply to Beuys: In Search of an Alternative in Polish Art"
Piotr Piotrowski
Visiting Getty Fellow in Art History
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