News and Announcements
Upcoming Lectures by Joshua Landy
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The Humanities Center and the Department of German & Romance Languages and Literatures are pleased to announce a lecture and a seminar by Prof. Joshua Landy of Stanford University February 13, 4 pm, Lecture: "Formative Fictions: Imaginative Literature and the Training of the Capacities" February 14, 1:30 pm, Seminar: "La Recherche du Temps Perdu: Why a Novel?" Gilman 208 |
Upcoming Conference
 | The Humanities Center is pleased to host the Inaugural Meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies March 2-3, 2012
See our events calendar for more information |
Upcoming Lecture by Michael V. Marder
| The Humanities Center and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures are pleased to announce a lecture by Prof. Michael V. Marder of the University of the Basque Country Vitoria-Gasteiz
"The Project of Critical Phenomenology"
March 7, 2012, 5-7 pm, Gilman 388 |
Associate of the Humanities Center, Member of the Académie Française, Docteur d'État at Université Paris-Sorbonne, and Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology at the University of Chicago, will give three lectures on "Revelation and Phenomenality: In What Sense would God Phenomenalize Himself?"
Upcoming Lecture by Regina Schwartz
 | The graduate students of the Humanities Center are pleased to to announce a lecture and a seminar by Prof. Regina Schwartz of Northwestern University: March 27, 4 pm, Lecture "Thinking about Contracts: The Merchant of Venice" March 28, 10 am, Seminar "Biblical Justice" Gilman 208 |
Upcoming Lecture by Walter Benn Michaels
| The graduate students of the Humanities Center are pleased to to announce a lecture and a seminar by Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago April 5, 4 pm, Lecture "Formal Feelings: Political Economy and Aesthetic Autonomy" April 6, 10 am, Seminar Gilman 208 |
Associate of the Humanities Center, Professor of Islamic and Political Philosophy and President of the Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem, will give three lectures on "Questions from the Past."
  | April 17, 18, and 19, 2012 Gilman Hall 208 Visit the events calendar for details |
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