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Over the past several years, Professor Roberts has collaborated with Dr. Keith Foulcher (Indonesian Studies, University of Sydney) to research American writer Richard Wright’s 1955 travel to Indonesia to attend the Asian-African Conference, a landmark meeting of representatives from twenty-nine postcolonial Asian and African countries. In May 2013, with funding from the Kennedy Center for …
If you ask a psychologist, they will tell you Freud is obsolete.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 …
Yesterday morning I read a couple articles that, in relative juxtaposition, conspired to trigger this response. One was an innocuous piece about some high schooler getting suspended for asking the school’s visiting lecturer to prom during an assembly. The speaker happened to be Miss America. The other was a well-intentioned New York Times op-ed by Thomas Friedman …
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.
