Promotional poster for a past Lectures in Criticism events. The speakers are Néstor García Canclini from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana giving a talk titled “Creatividad precaria: los jóvenes en una cultura postindustrial” on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 6:30pm at The Musuem of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Co-sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts; David Harvey from the CUNY Graduate Center giving the Humanities Lecture titled “The Urbanization of Anti-Capitalist Struggle” on Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 5pm in PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street and the Humanities Seminar on October 19, 2012 at 2pm in CAS 200, 725 Commonwealth Avenue; Alex Woloch from Stanford University giving a talk titled “Pickwickian Reform: Partial Representation in Dickens” on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 5pm in CAS 200, 725 Commonwealth Avenue; Abigail Gillman from Boston University giving a talk titled “A German Bible for Jewish Women” on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 5pm in PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street; and Joseph Roach from Yale University giving a talk titled “New Poetics: Performance Studies and the Research University” on Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 5pm in PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street. The events are sponsored by the BU Humanities Foundation and the Departments of English, Romance Studies, and Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures. The events are free and open to the public.

Fall 2012

“Creatividad precaria: los jóvenes en una cultura postindustrial”

Néstor García Canclini, Professor of Anthropology, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Lecture at 6:30pm.

The Musuem of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue

Co-sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts

Humanities Lecture

“The Urbanization of Anti-Capitalist Struggle”

David Harvey, Distinguished Professor in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Lecture at 5pm

PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street

Humanities Seminar

October 19, 2012, 2pm

CAS 200, 725 Commonwealth Avenue

“Pickwickian Reform: Partial Representation in Dickens”

Alex Woloch, Associate Professor of English, Stanford University

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Lecture at 5pm

CAS 200, 725 Commonwealth Avenue

Spring 2013

A German Bible for Jewish Women

Abigail Gillman, Associate Professor of Hebrew, German, and Comparative Literature, Boston University

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Lecture at 5pm

PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street

New Poetics: Performance Studies and the Research University

Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater, Professor English and African American Studies, Yale University

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Lecture at 5pm

PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street