Announcements/Events
Happenings
Tuesday November 3
2:30: Two lectures on the topic “The Idea of France in the Middle Ages and Renaissance”: Daisy Delogu (Romance Languages and Literatures, Chicago), “A Natural King and a Free People: Philippe de Mézières's 'Dream of the Old Pilgrim' (1386-89)”; Katherine Crawford (History, Vanderbilt), “Salic Law and the Politics of Exclusion”
501 CL
Reception to follow
Wednesday November 4
2:30: Colloquium on “Gender and the Medieval/Renaissance French Nation”: discussion around French primary texts led by Daisy Delogu and Katherine Crawford
Babcock Room (CL 40th floor). Take the elevator to the 36th floor and then take the service elevator around the corner to your right.
Texts for discussion will be distributed in advance.
Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the texts.
Thursday November 5
12:30: Colloquium, Adam Lowenstein, Humanities Center Fellow (English/Film Studies)
Paper Title: “The Animal in You(Tube): Posthuman Cinema from Buñuel to New Media”
CL 512
Paper for discussion will be distributed in advance.
Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the paper.
Friday November 13-Saturday November 14
Friday 4-7pm: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Saturday 10:00-11:45am: Babcock Room (40th Floor CL)
1:30-3pm: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
3:30-5pm: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
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Wednesday November 18
4:30: Lecture by Sheila ffolliott (George Mason University), "How Renaissance Women Viewed Portraits"
CL 202
Friday November 20
3:00: Lecture by Alexander Nehamas (Philosophy, Princeton), “‘Because It Was He, Because It Was I’: The Good of Friendship”
CL 324
Reception to follow
Thursday December 3-Friday December 4
Visit of Short-Term Fellow, Sabine MacCormack (Classics and History, Notre Dame)
Thursday 12:30: Colloquium discussion of chapters 1 & 5 from her book In The Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru. 526 CL
Responses from Gonzalo Lamana (Hispanic), Bruce Vernarde (History), and Lara Putnam (History)
Text to be distributed in advance.
Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the reading.
Thursday 5:00: Lecture, “The Poetics of Representation in Viceregal Peru: A Walk Round the Cloister of San Agustin in Lima”
501 CL
Friday 1:00: Discussion on José de Acosta’s travel narrative, led by Prof. MacCormack. 526 CL
Texts to be distributed in advance.
Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the reading.
Thursday December 10
4:30: Lecture by Petre Petrov, Humanities Center External Fellow (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton)
“The Industry of Truing: Socialist Realism, Reality, Realization”
CL 501
Past Events
Monday September 14-Thursday September 17
Visit of short-term fellow Aamir Mufti (Comparative Literature, UCLA)
Monday 4:00: Lecture, "Orientalism and the Institution of World Literature" CL 501
Reception to follow
Wednesday
12:00: PITT FACULTY “Take Me to Your Language: Comparative Literature and Global Society” CL 526
Thursday 12:30: Colloquium, “The Missing Homeland of Edward Said”
CL 526
Paper for discussion will be distributed in advance.
Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the paper.
Thursday October 1
12:30: Colloquium, Adriana Helbig, Humanities Center Fellow (Music)
Paper Title: “Playing for Peace: Reggae-Rap and Hip-Folk Among African Migrants in Ukraine”
CL 512
Paper for discussion will be distributed in advance.
Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the paper.
Thursday October 1
3:00: Lecture by Greg Grandin (History, NYU)
“American Exceptionalism: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of William Appleman Williams's The Tragedy of American Diplomacy”
CL 501
Thursday October 8
12:30: Colloquium, Sharon Marcus (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia)
CL 526
Text for discussion (from her book Between Women) will be distributed in advance.
Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the reading.
Thursday October 8
4:30: Lecture, Sharon Marcus, “Salome and the Drama of Celebrity”
501 CL
Friday October 9
5:00: Lecture, Lawrence F. Rhu, "Shakespeare Italianate: Skeptical Crises in Three Plays of Shakespeare"
Thursday October 15
12:30: Colloquium, "Teaching Faulkner", Julia Stern (Northwestern)
CL 526
Thursday October 15
4:30: Lecture, "Family Troubles in the House Divided: Slave Violence in Mary Chestnut's Civil War Narratives", Julia Stern
CL 501
Tuesday October 20
4:00, Lecture, "Time and Freedom in Asian Film", Tony Day
CL 512
Thursday October 29
12:30: Colloquium, Joshua Lund, Humanities Center Fellow (Hispanic)
Paper Title: “Let Plunder: Altamirano's Mexico and the Problem of Paramilitarism”
CL 512
Paper for discussion will be distributed in advance.
Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the paper.
4:30: Lecture, George Lamming (Brown), "The Politics of Theory: Caribbean Literature and the Search for a New Critical Language"
Faculty Seminar
Every year during the week after Pitt's commencement, a distinguished short-term fellow will lead a seminar for Pitt faculty on a topic of wide interest that cuts across departments and disciplines. As space permits, graduate students and faculty members from other local institutions may also participate. From May 3-7, 2010, Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, will lead the first seminar, titled “Rethinking Cosmopolitanism.” Detailed information will be circulated at the start of fall term.