Past Events

Marilynne Robinson, Novelist

Shakespeare: The Question of Audience
Avenali Lecture
| Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her Avenali lecture considers the question of audience in the work of Shakespeare.

Quirk Historicism

and the End(s) of Art History
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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

This symposium explores the aestheticized status that marginal objects have acquired in our writing of history.

Tears in the Fabric of the Past: New Theories of Narrative and History

With Avenali Chair Eelco Runia
Avenali Lecture
| Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler

Avenali Chair in the Humanities Eelco Runia in discussion with Hayden White (UC Santa Cruz, emeritus), Martin Jay (UC Berkeley), Carol Gluck (Columbia), Harry Harootunian (Columbia), and Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan).

| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Claudio Lomnitz is the Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. In his new biography, Lomnitz delves into the lives and ideology of Magón’s inner circle, examining their role in the Mexican Revolution.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Professor of Ethnic Studies Raúl Coronado’s book focuses on how eighteenth-century Texas Mexicans used writing to remake the social fabric in the midst of war and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World.

Thursday, May 8, 2014 12:00 am -
| The Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way

This career workshop will help prepare graduate students and recent graduates for the work that awaits them in 21st-century global society and includes a hands-on resume workshop and networking opportunities.

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| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

The Course Threads Symposium is a capstone forum for students who have completed all requirements of the Course Threads Program. Students will present on the topics they studied within their thread, discussing the ways in which interdisciplinary course work informed their knowledge of the topic.

| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Thomas Metzinger is professor of theoretical philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. His research focuses on analytical philosophy of the mind and philosophical aspects of neuro- and cognitive sciences, as well as connections between ethics, philosophy of the mind, and anthropology.

Friday, Apr 25, 2014 12:00 am -
| Toll Room, Alumni House

This conference is dedicated to the exploration of the methodological underpinnings of the current encounter between Buddhism and cognitive science.