Past Events

Jonathan Culler: “Theory of the Lyric” on March 7

Date

Thursday, March 7, 2013. 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Speaker(s): Jonathan Culler

Thomas Kaiser on "Making War to Make Peace: Diplomacy,
‘Patriotism,’ and Public Opinion in Choiseul’s Grand Exit Strategy
at the End of the Seven Years’ War" on March 7

Date

Thursday, March 7, 2013. 4:00pm - 5:30pm

We are pleased to invite you to our event next Thursday, March 7 when our guest will be Thomas Kaiser (History, University of Arkansas – Little Rock).

The Refracted Muse: Literature and Optics in Early Modern
Spain on March 5

Date

Tuesday, March 5, 2013. 12:00pm

Speaker(s): Professor Enrique García Santo Tomás

Italian Film Classics: Divorce, Italian Style
(Germi) on March 4

Date

Monday, March 4, 2013. 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Lecture, screening and discussion with film scholar Sarah Carey, Ph.D. Presented by the Department of French & Italian.

The Lightning Flash of Knowledge and the Time of Image:
Walter Benjamin’s Image Based Epistemology and its Preconditions in
Visual Arts and Media History on February 28

Date

Thursday, February 28, 2013. 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Speaker(s): Sigrid Weigel

Workshop by Vincent Barletta: "Pastoral Closeness" on February 28

Date

Thursday, February 28, 2013. 12:00pm

Speaker(s): Vincent Barletta

Colloquium by Devin Fore, Princeton University: On
Factography on February 27

Date

Wednesday, February 27, 2013. 5:15pm - 6:30pm

Speaker(s): Devin Fore, Princeton University

Italian Film Classics: Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti) on February 25

Date

Monday, February 25, 2013. 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Lecture, screening and discussion with film scholar Sarah Carey, Ph.D. Presented by the Department of French & Italian.

"Narrative Self, Lyric Self, Absent Self: Literary,
Psychological, and Philosophical Approaches to
Self-Fashioning." on February 22

Date

Friday, February 22, 2013. 4:30pm - Saturday, February 23, 2013. 7:00pm

February 22-23, 2013
"Narrative Self, Lyric Self, Absent Self: Literary, Psychological, and Philosophical Approaches to Self-Fashioning."

Nicolas Rieucau: Comment dater un manuscript sans le dater?
Le cas des Archives Condorcet. on February 21

Date

Thursday, February 21, 2013. 4:00pm - 5:30pm