[ The College Arts & Humanities Institute invites you to a presentation by:
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Michael Morgan
Shame and Responsibility:
5 p.m., Wednesday February 27, 2008
Morgan is a historian of philosophy whose research ranges from Ancient Greek Philosophy to religious thought and political theory in the twentieth century. He also has interests in literature and film, as well as in ethics, political theory, and the philosophy of religion. He has published widely in modern Jewish philosophy, from Spinoza and Mendelssohn to Buber and Rosenzweig, and he has worked widely on intellectual responses to the Nazi Holocaust and contemporary Jewish philosophy. read more » -
John Lucaites
No Caption Needed
5 p.m., Tuesday January 22, 2008
An exuberant sailor plants a kiss on a nurse in the heart of Times Square. A naked Vietnamese girl runs in terror from a napalm attack. An unarmed man stops a tank in Tiananmen Square. These and a handful of other photographs have become icons of public culture: widely recognized, historically significant, emotionally resonant images that are used repeatedly to negotiate civic identity. But why are these images so powerful? How do they remain meaningful across generations? What do they expose—and what goes unsaid? read more » -
William R. Newman
Atoms and Alchemy
5 p.m., Thursday October 4, 2007
But in Atoms and Alchemy, William R. Newman—a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy—exposes the speciousness of these views and challenges widely held beliefs about the origins of the Scientific Revolution. read more » -
Edward Bernstein
"Halflight:"
5:30 p.m., Tuesday September 25, 2007
He has been interested in architecture and interior spaces whether observed or invented. An unrepentant romantic, he has been mostly drawn to the apocalyptic and expressionistic in art. read more » -
Susan Gubar
Rooms of Our Own
5 p.m., Wednesday April 11, 2007
What advances have women made and what still needs to be done? Taking Woolf's classic A Room of One's Own as her guide, Gubar engages these questions by recounting one year in the life of an English professor. read more » -
Jeffrey A. Wolin
Inconvenient Stories
5 p.m., Tuesday February 27, 2007
And those memories are now being resurrected, or at least revisited, as we are embroiled in another war with less than clear goals, mounting casualties, and returning combat veterans. But the personal memories of those who actually fought in Vietnam have never needed resurrection-combat shifts the mind into the eternally present and eliminates the concept of memory. This exhibition is about those veterans and how their lives today are perpetually informed by their lives then. We can all talk about War in the abstract, and about how it advances or distorts American interests. But we only occasionally get to see the faces and hear the voices of the people who actually did the fighting. These people know things that those of us who weren’t there have no words to describe or experiences to relate to. While examining the experience of Vietnam War Veterans, this work also suggests a parallel with soldiers now returning from Iraq. read more » -
Josep Miquel Sobrer
A Broken Mirror by Mercè Rodoreda
5 p.m., Thursday November 16, 2006
Mercè Rodoreda (1908-1983) has emerged as perhaps the most important fiction writer of the twentieth century in Catalan literature and is one of the most interesting writers of the contemporary Spanish literary world. In A Broken Mirror, the reader sees events and characters spanning three generations ranging over six decades turning upon events both intimate and historic—most notably the Spanish Civil War read more » -
Scott Sanders
A Private History of Awe
5 p.m., Thursday March 23, 2006
Sanders’ nineteenth book. He began his career at IU in 1971. He is Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, where he teaches courses on the American nature writing tradition and workshops in personal nonfiction. read more » -
Linda A. Charnes
Hamlet's Heirs:
5 p.m., Thursday March 2, 2006
Her first book, Notorious Identity: Materializing the Subject in Shakespeare (Harvard UP) explored how famous textual and historical figures become cultural commodities, and concluded with an extended meditation on Congress's use and abuse of Shakespeare in the Thomas/Hill Hearings. While directing a faculty seminar on "Shakespeare and Postmodernism" at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the then-emerging Clinton/Lewinsky scandal was instrumental in developing the themes of Hamlet's Heirs. read more » -
Bronislava Volkova
The Slightest Reminder of Your Being…
5:00 p.m., Thursday February 23, 2006
Volková is a bilingual poet and recent publications include: Promeny/Transformations (2000, 2001), Vstup do svetla/Entering Light (2002) and a twin edition of Ze tmy zrozená/Born out of Darkness (2004/2005). They are surrealist and inspirational books focusing in part on the healing of society through the individual on many levels - from cultural, national and religious prejudices to race and sexual violence and their far-reaching consequences. Volková’s is a poetry of effort towards spiritual evolution, searching for and finding a higher, unifying principle and universal meaning. read more »
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