Fall 2014
“Lucid Bodies: The Ascetic Ground of Writing”
Amy Appleford, Assistant Professor of English, Boston University
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Lecture at 5pm.
Spring 2015
“Axiologies: Past and Present Concepts of Literary Value”
Robert D. Hume, Evan Pugh University Professor of English, Penn State University
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Lecture at 5pm.
“Do we Still Need Literary History? A View from Eastern Eurasia”
Wiebke Denecke, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Boston University
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Lecture at 6pm
[Cancelled]
“Theology and Marxism in Walter Benajmin”
Michael Löwy, Research Director in Social Sciences, French National Center for Scientific Research
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Lecture at 5pm
Humanities Lecture
“Involuntary Revelations: Reading Historical Evidence Against the Grain”
Carlo Ginzburg, Professor of History, UCLA & Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Monday, April 13, 2015
Lecture at 5pm
Humanities Seminar
April 14, 2015, 2pm