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Johns Hopkins University
Humanities Center
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Fall
2007- Spring 2008
Schedule of Participants and
Events
Wednesday,
September 12
David Rodowick,
Film and Media Studies, Harvard
University
“An Elegy for Theory”
Gilman
111*
Time: 5 PM
Thursday,
September 27
Simon Critchley,
Philosophy, New School
University
“The Book of Dead Philosophers”
Gilman
348
Time: 4-6 PM
Thursday,
October 11
Anson Rabinbach,
History, Princeton
University
“When Stalinism was a Humanism: Literary Antifascism 1934-1936”
Gilman 111
Time: 5 PM
Wednesday,
October 31
Johann Holland, Institut pour La Recherche et
l'Innovation,
Beaubourg, Musée d'art Moderne, Paris
“Le mystère Picasso by Clouzot,
1956, and presentation of Lignes de temps”
Gilman
111
Time: 7-9 PM
Wednesdays:
November 14-December 5
Henri Atlan,
Hadassah Medical Center,
Hebrew University of
Jerusalem / EHESS, Paris
“Complexity and Self-Organization: Spinoza, a Philosophy for
Today”
(six week intensive seminar)
Gilman 111
Time:
1-4 PM
November
12-17
Jean-Luc Marion,
Philosophy, Sorbonne, Paris IV / Divinity School;
Philosophy, Committee on Social Though, University
of Chicago
“Saint Augustine: Contribution to a
Post-Metaphysical Reading
(Part Two)”
Monday: November 12
1. “The Names of
God”
Gilman 111 Time: 2-5 PM
Thursday: November 15
2. “The Weakness of the
Will”
Gilman 111 Time: 5 PM
Friday: November 16
3. “The Question of
Time”
Gilman 111 Time: 4 PM
Monday, November 26
Burcht Pranger,
History & Classics, University
of Amsterdam
“Frozen Time: Perseverance in Augustine and Heinrich von
Kleist”
Gilman
111
Time:
3-5 PM
Mondays,
February 18, 25, and March 3
Sandra Laugier,
Philosophy, Université d’Amiens
“Cinema and Moral Perfectionism” (three week intensive seminar:
300.618)*
Gilman
111
Time: 1-3:30 PM
February
18th
“Ordinary
life and conversation: Stanley Cavell and the place of ordinary
language”
February
25th
“Moral
perfectionism and expressivity”
March
3rd
“Ordinary
morality and the perception of importance”
*Syllabus
available for pick up in Gilman 113
Friday,
February 15
Edna Ullmann-Margalit,
Philosophy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
“Interpretive Circles - the Case of Qumran”
Gilman
111
Time: 4 PM
Thursday,
March 6
Amy Hollywood,
Harvard Divinity School
“Acute Melancholia: On Loss, Mourning, and Christian
Mysticism.”
Gilman 111
Time: 4 PM
Thursday, March 27
Leroy Searle,
English and Comparative Literature, University of Washington
From Inference to Insight: A Model of Literary Reasoning"
Gilman
111
Time: 4 PM
Thursday, April 3
Rima Essa and Esti Tsal
Through
the Lens of Women Activists: Images of Justice and Peace in
Israel/Palestine
Mattin
Center
Time: TBD
Friday, April 4
The Humanities Center, The Department of Anthropology,
and The Department of and Political Science announce a workshop celebrating
a book by Professor Veena Das:
"Life
and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary"
Talal Asad, CUNY
"Terrorism, Just War, Redemption"
Jane Bennett
"Impersonal Life"
Veena Das "More Thoughts on the
Ordinary and the Everyday"
Paola Marrati "The Novelty of Life"
Hent de Vries
"Religious Life"
Gilman 111 Time: 2-6PM
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* Gilman 111: Humanities Center
Seminar Room
Humanities Center
Voice: 410-516-7619
3400 North Charles Street
Fax: 410-516-4897
Baltimore MD 21218
humanitiescenter@jhu.edu
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