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*CANCELED* The Humanities Center welcomes Caroline Weber, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, as our Colloquium speaker on Thursday, March 19th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Title: “The Three Faces of Proust’s Duchess” The three superstars of turn-of-the-century Parisian high society were Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse Adhéaume …
*CANCELED* Tuesday, March 17th @ 12:00 PM in B192 JFSB (EIZ theater), Medieval & Renaissance Studies (MARS) research group will host their third and final keynote from their 2017–19 research question of “Faith and Doubt in the Premodern World,” Jane Newman, Professor of Comparative Arts & Letters at UC-Irvine, will be presenting “Auerbach’s Modernity: Vico Contra …
This Friday & Saturday (13–14 March): MARS is co-sponsoring – and several MARS faculty are presenting as part of – the “Women’s Voices of the Middle Ages and Renaissance” symposium here on campus, which will feature six panels, a keynote address by Elissa Weaver (U Chicago) and a presentation of the one-woman show “Je Christine: …
Nick Mason, Professor of English, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, March 12th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. More details forthcoming. Title: “Reception Studies and the Digital Archive: What We Do, Don’t, and May Never Know about the History of Reading” Amid the broader …
Cherice Montgomery, Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, February 27th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “Cultivating 21st Century Competence Through Playable Case Studies” Playable Case Studies (PCSs) are interactive, educational simulations where learners interact with fictional characters …
Jennifer Bown, Associate Professor of German & Russian and her colleagues in the iCAMRA research group will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, February 20th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “Tracking the Development of Reading Proficiency” This colloquium reports on a multidisciplinary project utilizing …
The Humanities Center welcomes Deanna Thompson, Founding Director of the Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community and Martin E. Marty Regents Chair in Religion and the Academy at St. Olaf College as our Colloquium speaker on Thursday, February 13th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. She will be presenting her research on trauma and …
Robert Hudson, Associate Professor of French & Italian will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, February 6th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “Clement Petitions: Translating Marot’s Verse Epistles as Critical Biography” ‘As I complete my critical edition/translation of Clément Marot’s Verse Epistles (for ACMRS …
The Humanities Center, in collaboration with the Office of Digital Humanities and the American Studies program, welcomes Lauren Klein, Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Quantitative Theory and Methods, and Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Emory University, as our Colloquium speaker on Friday, January 31st at 11:00 AM in 4010 JFSB. …
This week’s Guide to the Classics series: Why We Read Don Quixote Considered to be one of the most important books of all time and often cited as the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a book about books. The novel’s eponymous hero has become a multi-dimensional archetype, a figure symbolizing ago-old tensions between idealism …