{"id":451,"date":"2016-09-16T17:09:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T21:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lecturesincriticism\/?page_id=451"},"modified":"2022-12-28T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T16:06:32","slug":"2016-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lecturesincriticism\/past-lectures-2\/2016-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"2016-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/lecturesincriticism\/files\/2011\/09\/LIC-at-BU-2016-17-web-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/lecturesincriticism\/files\/2011\/09\/LIC-at-BU-2016-17-web-small.gif\" alt=\"Promotional poster for past Lectures in Criticism events. The speakers are Sharon Cameron from Johns Hopkins University giving a talk titled \u201cTolstoy, Bresson, and the Ground of the Ethical\u201d on October 20, 2016, at 6pm; Anthony Reed from Yale University giving a talk titled \u201cNow is the Question: Amiri Baraka in a Post-Revolutionary Age\u201d on December 1, 2016, at 6pm; Anthony Grafton from Princeton University giving a talk titled \u201cThe Two Cultures in Renaissance Europe\u201d on February 16, 2017, at 6pm with a seminar for faculty and graduate students February 17, 2017, at 2pm; Efrain Kristal from UCLA giving a talk titled \u201cJorge Luis Borges and the Two World Wars\u201d on March 16, 2017, at 6pm; and J. Keith Vincent from Boston University giving a talk titled \u201cQueer Transmissions in Japan: A Haiku Hauntology\u201d on April 13, 2017, at 6pm. The events are sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities and the Departments of English, Romance Studies, and World Languages and Literatures. The events were free and open to the public.\" width=\"990\" height=\"1530\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-456 size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fall 2016<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lecturesincriticism\/past-lectures-2\/2016-2017\/sharon-cameron\/\" style=\"color: #008080;\">Tolstoy, Bresson, and the Ground of the Ethical<\/a><\/span>\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sharon Cameron, William R. Kenan Jr. Emerita Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>October 20, 2016<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>Lecture at 6pm.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lecturesincriticism\/past-lectures-2\/2016-2017\/anthony-reed\/\" style=\"color: #008080;\">Now is the Question: Amiri Baraka in a Post-Revolutionary Age<\/a><\/span>\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Anthony Reed, Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, Yale University<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>December 1, 2016<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>Lecture at 6pm.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Spring 2017<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Humanities Lecture<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe Two Cultures in Renaissance Europe\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">February 16, 2017<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lecture at 6pm<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Humanities Seminar<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">February 17, 2017, 2pm<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cJorge Luis Borges and the Two World Wars\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Efra\u00edn Kristal, Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, UCLA<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">March 16, 2017<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lecture at 6pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[Postponed to 2018]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cQueer Transmissions in Japan: A Haiku Hauntology\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">J. Keith Vincent, Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, and Women&#8217;s, Gender, &amp; Sexuality Studies, Boston University<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">April 13, 2017<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lecture at 6pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall 2016 \u201cTolstoy, Bresson, and the Ground of the Ethical\u201d Sharon Cameron, William R. 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