History of Art & Architecture: Where Does Transgression Begin?

The Boston University Guest Lecture Series in the History of Art & Architecture cordially invites you to the third installment of our 2024-25 lecture series, sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities. On Tuesday, March 4th, we will welcome Irit Kleiman, Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Boston University. She will present a lecture entitled "Where Does Transgression Begin?" Dr. Kleiman teaches courses on the literatures and cultures of medieval and Renaissance France in a global context, and serves on the faculty of the BU Core Curriculum in the Humanities. Her interdisciplinary research asks questions about the dialogue between literature and the Law, the writing of history, the cultural production of memory, affect, material culture, and sensory encounters, especially tactile. Much of her critical writing is informed by an ongoing engagement with the intellectual legacies of psychoanalysis.