English Department Calendar

Center for the Humanities (October 14 through December 31)

Tuesday, October 16

• 4:30 PM Nations Unknown Even to Trade? Knowledge Transfer and the Silk Trade in Antiquity
• 5:00 PM Syria in my Heart: Classical Music by Contemporary Syrian Composers

Wednesday, October 17

• 7:00 PM Literature, Ethics and Social Justice

Thursday, October 25

• 2:15 PM On the Edge: Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Sharing?
• 4:00 PM Ethics Seminar- Zoë Johnson King
• Seeking a Holy Death: The Meteoric Rise of Mexican Folk Saint, Santa Muerte

Wednesday, October 31

• 5:00 PM Exit Laughing: Mirth and Death in 21st Century Haitian Vodou

Thursday, November 1

• 4:00 PM The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia

Tuesday, November 13

• 5:00 PM Love & Strife: The Life of Saul Bellow (1965-2005)--A Reading by biographer Zachary Leader

Wednesday, November 14

• 6:00 PM Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath - A Lecture by James McNaughton

Friday, November 16

• 4:00 PM Ethics Seminar- Ben Morison

Friday, November 30

• 12:00 PM Negation and Affirmation, Judgement and Grace: A Political Theology of Reconciliation from Karl Barth's The Christian Life

Thursday, December 6

• 4:00 PM Ethics Seminar- Matthew Smith
• 5:30 PM Linguistics Colloquium: On constructing regional and racial identity: Investigating stylistic variation in Rochester, New York

Thursday, December 13

• 7:30 PM Winter People

Friday, December 14

• 12:00 PM Food From Peace: Religious Promise and Practice