Thursday, August 31
4:15 p.m., Forum South Lounge

Against Grandiloquence: Jewish
Memory and ‘Victim Culture’

Carolyn Dean, Professor of History, Brown University

Thursday, September 28
4:15 p.m., Rosenfield Room 101

The Element of Play in the Early Daoist Text Zhuangzi

Shuen-fu Lin, Professor of Chinese Literature University of Michigan

Thursday, October 26
4:15 p.m., Rosenfield Room 101

Between Friends: Women, Gay Men, and Feminist Friendship

Jennifer Doyle, Associate Professor , University of California at Riverside

Thursday, November 16
4:15 p.m., Rosenfield Room 101

Happiness and the Meaning of Life

Claire Colebrook, Professor of English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Topic: "The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism
in the West"
April 5-7, 2006

Speakers:

Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Sciences, Emory University. See bio.

Karen Mock, Executive Director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation

Tony Kushner (History, and Director of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/ non-Jewish Relations , University of Southhampton)

Michel Wieviorka (Sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris)

Wednesday, April 5

4:15 p.m. South Lounge, Tony Kushner: "Anti-Semitism in Britain: Continuity and the Absence of a Resurgence"

8:00 p.m. South Lounge, Karen Mock: "Antisemitism and Anti-Racism in the US and Canada Today:  The Challenge of Putting Theory into Practice"

Thursday, April 6

11:00 a.m. Sebring-Lewis, Sander L. Gilman: "The Reappearance of Race in American Science: Are Jews Immune to Alcoholism?"

4:15 p.m. South Lounge, Michel Wieviorka: "The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in the West : The French Case"

Friday, April 7

4:15 p.m. South Lounge, "Round Table Discussion" Sander Gilman, A.R. Kushner, Karen Mock, Michel Wieviorka, and Grinnell Faculty.

Topic: "Religion and Violence"
Feb. 15-17, 2006

Speakers:

Hector Avalos: "Rethinking the Role of Religion in Violence: A New Theory for an Old Problem"

Veena Das "Everyday Life and Experiences of the Occult: Local Stories of Violence and Reconciliation"
(Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

Bruce Lincoln: "From Artaxerxes to Abu Ghraib: Religion and the Pornography of Imperial Violence" (Divinity School, University of Chicago)

Regina Swartz "Holy Terror and Holy Justice "

Fall 2005
Symposia

Topic: "Intolerance"
Nov. 9-11, 2005

Wednesday, Nov. 9

4:15 p.m., Forum South Lounge

Conduct Unbecoming: The Impact of the Patriot Act on Arts Professionals

Coco Fusco (Visual Arts, Columbia)

8:00 p.m., Forum South Lounge

Secularism, Hermeneutics, and Empire: The Politics of Islamic Reformation

Saba Mahmood (Anthropology, Berkeley)

Thursday, Nov.10

11:00 a.m., Herrick Chapel

Unclear Enemies, Unclear Friends

Virginia Dominguez (Anthropology, University of Iowa)

4:15 p.m. Forum South Lounge

Intolerance, Difference, and Disagreement

Linda Martín Alcoff (Philosophy, University of Syracuse)

Friday, Nov. 11

4:15 p.m. Forum South Lounge

Round Table Discussion

Humanities Symposium April 13-15, 2005

Feminist Scholarship Today

Speakers will include Kristin Ross, Susan Bordo, Amy Hollywood, and Rosi Braidotti.

Fall 2004
Public Lectures
Feminist Scholarship Today

Tuesday, September 7
4:15 p.m., South Lounge, Forum

European Noir: Crime and History in Recent Detective Fiction

Kristin Ross, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, New York University

Thursday, September 30
11 a.m., Harris Center

Scholars’ Convocation: Changing Reflections in the Mirror of Culture: How We See Bodies Today

Susan Bordo, Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky

Tuesday, November 2
4:15 p.m., South Lounge, Forum

Mysticism, Death and Desire in Late Medieval Christian Mysticism

Amy Hollywood, Professor of History of Christianity and Theology, University of Chicago

Tuesday, November 30
4:15 p.m., South Lounge, Forum

Gender, Migration and Citizenship in the “new” Europe

Rosi Braidotti, Professor of Women’s Studies and Scientific Director of the Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, University of Utrecht

Humanities Symposium

Center for the Humanities Symposium, April 7-9, 2004

Globalization and Cultural Capital

Speakers will include Drucilla Cornell, Doug Henwood, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and Evan Watkins

For details, go to Globalization and Cultural Capital

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September 24, 2003 4:15 pm

South Lounge

Jeffrey T. Nealon, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, will deliver a talk entitled "Periodizing the 80s".

Center for the Humanities Symposium, April 16-18, 2003

Montage and Modern Art

Wed, April 16, 2003

4:15 Vyacheslav Ivanov, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Montage as Dominant Device of the Art in the 20th Century"

8:00 Maya Turovskaya, film theorist and historian, Senior Research Fellow at the Research Film Institute, Moscow

Title: "Blowup"

Thurs, April 17, 2003

11:00 Convocation: Robert Scholes, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
Title: "Is There a Modernist Literary Montage?"

4:15 Dudley Andrew, Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Chair of the Film Studies Program at Yale University
Title: “Cinematic Thresholds or the Frame-mobile”

Fri, April 18, 2003

4:15 - 6:30 Round Table: Participants will include Dudley Andrew, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Robert Scholes, Maya Turovskaya, Galina Aksenova, Jenny Anger, Alan Schrift, Daniel Reynolds

Oct. 3, 2002 4:15pm

Professor Vyascheslav Ivanov will present a Humanities Lecture, "Semiotics and the Human Sciences" on October 3, at 4:15 p.m. in the South Lounge.

Humanities Symposium, April 17-20, 2002

Wed, April 17, 2002

4:15 -6:00 William Connolly, Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Title: "Faith, Territory and Evil"

8:00 - 9:45 Hent de Vries, Professor of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam and Director, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Title:   "Horror Religiosus"

Thurs, April 18, 2002

11:00 - 12:00 Convocation: Peter Dews,  Professor of Philosophy, University of Essex
Title: "Disenchantment and the Question of Evil"

4:15 - 6:00  Edith Wyschogrod, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University
Title:  "Incursions of Evil: The Double Bind of Alterity"

Fri, April 19, 2002

4:15 - 6:30 Humanities Symposium Round Table: "Modernity and the Problem of Evil"

Public Lecture

Oct. 8, 2001 4:15pm

Peter Dews, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex will deliver a talk titled "Pathologies of Modernity: Postmodernist Thought as Sociopolitical Diagnosis"

Oct. 29-30, 2001

Filmmakers Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann will be on campus to screen and discuss their film "Long Night's Journey Into Day," about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Winner of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, Reid and Hoffmann's visit is co-sponsored by the Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations and Human Rights.