| John Kerrigan (St. John's College, Cambridge, Shakespeare and early modern literature, especially the interaction between cultural history and British-Irish state formation; textual scholarship; poetry since Wordsworth) |
October 15, 2007: 5:00pm, Rosenwald 405, discussion of pre-circulated paper co-sponsored by the Renaissance workshop:***
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| "Devolving Interdisciplinarity, 1603-1707" |
| October 18, 2007: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow: |
| "Archipelagic Macbeth" |
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| Robert Fogelin (Dartmouth University, skepticism, Hume, Wittgenstein) |
| The first of a two-lecture series co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center and the Philosophy Dept. |
| October 25, 2007: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow: |
| "Hume's Multiple Voices" |
| October 26, 2007: 4:30pm - 6:00pm, Stuart 209, Professor Fogelin will lead a close reading of Book I, Part IV, sections 3 and 4 of Hume's Treatise, co-sponsored by the Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Early Modern Philosophy workshops:*** |
| "Hume on Ancient and Modern Philosophy" |
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| Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, modern Indian social and political history, modern Bengal, labor history, Asian studies, philosophical discourses of modernity, Marxism, poststructuralism, deconstruction and postmodernism, and postcolonial theory) |
| January 17, 2008: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow: |
| "Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History" |
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| Schaffner Visiting Professor |
| Jon Mee (University of Warwick, Romanticism, literature and film, post-colonial literature) |
| January 30, 2008: 4:30pm, Franke seminar room, lecture with reception to follow: |
| "To the End of the Conversible World: Conversation and Romanticism" |
| Lecture companion readings (encouraged, but not required): Godwin's Political Justice, 'Of Political Associations'; Godwin's Enquirer, 'Preface'; Godwin's Enquirer, 'Of Politeness'; Godwin's Enquirer, 'Of Choice in Reading'; Watts' Improvement of the Mind, 'Observation, Reading...' |
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| Harold Berman (Emory University, world law; the Western legal tradition; comparative legal history) |
| February 28-29, 2008 |
| Talk cancelled. |
| Professor Berman passed away on November 13, 2007. The Nicholson Center extends our condolences to his family. |
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| Lesley Stern (University of California at San Diego, film theory and history;performance;cultural history and feminism) |
May 14, 2008: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow: |
| "The Garden (Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta): Memory, History, Writing" |
| May 15, 2008: 10:30am - 12:30pm, Cobb 310, workshop discussion of pre-circulated paper co-sponsored by the Mass Culture workshop:*** |
| "How Movies Move: Between Hong Kong and Bulawayo, Between Screen and Stage..." |
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| Sharon Marcus (Columbia University, 19th-century British and French literature; feminist and sexual theory; urban and architectural history ) |
| May 28, 2008: 4:30pm, Classics 110, lecture with reception to follow: |
| "At Home with the Other Victorians" |
| May 29, 2008: 10:30am - 12:00pm, Rosenwald 405, discussion of pre-circulated paper co-sponsored by the 18th/19th Century Cultures workshop:*** |
| "The Novel and Provincial Life" |
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| ***Please contact Eva Wilhelm at ewilhelm@uchicago.edu to participate in any of the workshop discussions |
