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If you ask a psychologist, they will tell you Freud is obsolete. His theories have been debunked. The Oedipus Complex? Nonsense. Psychotherapy? Not helpful. But this week, Michael S. Roth, President of Wesleyan University, says otherwise in a piece he wrote for the The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled, “Why Freud Still Haunts Us.” Rather …
All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. September 11 David Grandy (Philosophy) The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things’: The Philosophical and Poetic Depths of Science September 18 Dirk Elzinga (LEL) How do you say —– in Hopi? How the Deseret Alphabet was used to document an indigenous language of …
English Reading Series, Wednesday, April 2, 12:00 p.m, HBLL.
LECTURES INTERVIEWS ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
Nancy Armstrong, the Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English at Duke and also editor of the prominent journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction. Her talk is entitled, “Bio-Political Jane Eyre”. Wednesday , March 19, 12pm, JFSB 4186/88.
“Disappearing Languages,” K. David Harrison (Swarthmore College) October 17, 3:00-4:30 p.m., JFSB B192 (Education in Zion Theater) K. David Harrison is a linguist, author and activist for the documentation and preservation of endangered languages teaching atSwarthmore College and affiliated with the National Geographic Society. His research focuses on the Turkic languages of central Siberia and western Mongolia. …
Anca Sprenger will give a talke entitled, “Romanian Cinema: Before and After”. Thursday, March 6, 3pm, JFSB 4010.
Dr. Amy Harris, Associate Professor of History will present her work, “Leaving a Legacy” from A Single View: Family Life and the Unmarried in Georgian England. Feb 18, 4:15-5:15pm, 2114 JFSB.
Kerry Soper will discuss an exploration of the ideological complexities of parody and satire in MAD magazine, with a focus on the long-running, back page “fold-ins” by Al Jaffee. ”It’s a MAD (magazine) world: Ideological ambivalence in the journal’s back-page, ‘fold-in’ parodies”, February 13 at 3pm in room 4010 JFSB.
Jacqueline Goldsby (English Department, Yale University), “The Art of Being Difficult: the Turn to Abstraction in African American Poetry and Painting during the 1940s and 1950s,” Friday, March 7th, 1:00-2:30 in JFSB B192 (Education in Zion Theater).