Event Archive
FALL 2007 visiting speaker (November 8-9, 2007)
IAN BURUMA (Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College) is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. His publications include Anglomania: A European Love Affair (1999); Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies (2004); and Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (2006)
Lecture topic: Islamist radicalism in Europe.
Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 5 p.m.
McCormick Tribune Forum, 1870 Campus Drive
WINTER 2008 visiting speaker (March 12-13, 2008)
T. J. CLARK (Art History, UC Berkeley) is the author of works such as The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (1985); Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999); and, most recently, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006).
Lecture topic: Picasso in the later 1920s.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 5 p.m.
Pick-Laudati Auditorium of the Block Museum, 40 Arts Circle Drive
Lecture co-sponsored by the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art
SPRING 2008 visiting speaker (May 7-8, 2008)
PAGE DUBOIS (Classics and Comp Lit, UC San Diego) is the author of works including Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women (1988); Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from Conservatives (2001); and Slaves and Other Objects (2003).
Lecture topic: Ancient Greeks in the 21st century.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 5 p.m.
Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark St.
Evanston Northwestern Humanities Lecture Series:
CARL SMITH (Professor of English, American Studies, and History at Northwestern University)
Public lecture: THE PLAN OF CHICAGO: DANIEL BURNHAM ANDTHE REMAKING OF THE AMERICAN CITY
Thursday, May 8 at 7 p.m.
Evanston Public Library, Community Meeting Room, 1703 Orrington Avenue
847-448-8600 or www.epl.org
Sponsored by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University and the Evanston Public Library
Institute workshops and public lectures on the Spring 2007 theme of Being Animal, Being Human: Living with Animals--led by Jean Lane Humanities Professor Mary WEISMANTEL of Anthropology)
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Artist Sue COE (Gallerie St. Etienne, New York City), author of Dead Meat (1995) and Pit’s Letter (2000)
Public lecture: "The World Upside Down"
Monday, April 9 at 4:30 p.m. in Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark St.
Sue Coe is a politically-oriented artist who has contributed illustrations to publications ranging from the New York Times to The Nation. Coe's work is in the collections of such major museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This lecture will focus on her earlier work documenting visits to slaughterhouses and stockyards, as well as new work on women in the prison system with HIV, and her latest project about elephants in circuses.
Chris PHILO (Geography, University of Glasgow), co-editor of Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New Geographies of Human-Animal Relations (2000)
Public lecture: "'Cats Robbed Him of His Wealth, His Health and His Reason': The Entangled Relations of Animals and Madness"
Monday, April 16 at 4:30 p.m. in 107 Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Rd.
Drawing upon the example of Louis Wain, a late 19th/early 20th century cartoonist who drew cats, Philo will introduce the entangled relations of nonhuman animals and mental ill-health. Wain’s experience, drawings, and writings open a window on to many different ways in which animals and madness might intersect.
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Jon T. COLEMAN, Lane Environmental Speaker (History, Notre Dame U.), author of Vicious: Wolves and Men in America (2004)
Public lecture: "Bodies Rent, Legends Rendered: Grizzly Bears as Authors in the Early American West"
Monday, May 7 at 4:30 p.m. in 108 Harris Hall
In August, 1823, a female grizzly bear attacked Hugh Glass, an American fur trapper. The bear tore him nearly to pieces and actually swallowed a few mouthfuls before other members of the expedition shot and killed her. Glass could have avoided this. An experienced hunter, he knew bears. Yet, he exemplified the paradox of the Americans’ relationship with grizzlies: intelligence about bears did not necessarily lead to intelligence around bears. Even with a serviceable understanding of their haunts and predilections, the Americans continued to be chased, scratched, and bitten by the animals. Why couldn’t these men schooled in wilderness survival master the art of staying out of the bushes? The answer, this lecture argues, can be found in how human bodies and bear claws generated stories.
Rebecca CASSIDY (Anthropology, Goldsmith College, University of London) author of The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket
Public lecture: "Making the Right Connections: Thoroughbred Racehorse Production in Newmarket and Lexington"
Monday, May 14 at 4:30 p.m. in the Program of African Studies seminar room, 620 Library Place
*please note change of location. PAS is right around the corner from the Institute for the Humanities.
Anthropologist Rebecca Cassidy will introduce the international bloodstock industry and describe the production and sale of thoroughbred racehorses at auction. She will argue that the breeding, training and exchange of racehorses reflect distinctive ideas about kinship, class and gender. Her lecture draws on extensive fieldwork as a stable lass and stud hand in Newmarket, England and Lexington, Kentucky.
Institute workshops and public lectures on the Winter 2007 theme of
Being Animal, Being Human: Thinking with Animals
led by Jean Lane Professor Susan Pearson
Erica FUDGE (Reader in Literary and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University, London), author of Animal (in the Reaktion BookFocus on Contemporary Issues series), Perceiving Animals: Humans and Animals in Early Modern English Culture, and editor of Renaissance Beasts
Public lecture: "The Dog and the Self in The Two Gentlemen of Verona: An Animal Approach to Shakespeare"
Monday, January 22 at 4:30 p.m. in Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street
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WORKSHOP: "‘Onely Proper Unto Man’: Dreaming and Being Human" (previously entitled "Becoming Human")
Monday, January 22, 2007 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cary WOLFE (English, Rice University), author of Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and the Subject of Theory, and the editor of Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal
Public lecture: "Animal Studies and Disability Studies, or, Learning from Temple Grandin" Monday, January 29 at 4:30 p.m. in 108 Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Road
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WORKSHOP: "Philosophy and (Non-human) Animal Life--Divergent Perspectives."
(previously entitled "Thinking the Animal: Diamond and Cavell on 'the difficulty of reality'")
Monday, January 29, 2007 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Donna HARAWAY (History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz), author of Primate Visions; Simians, Cyborgs, and Women; and The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. We are sharing her visit with the School of Communication.
Public lecture: "When Species Meet: Cyborgs and Dogs in Entangled NatureCultures" Thursday, March 1, at 4 p.m. (As part of the School of Communication’s WCLV Lecture Series in Discourse, Culture and Media Studies)
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WORKSHOP: "Training in the Contact Zone: Power, Play, and Invention in the Sport of Agility"
FRIDAY, March 2 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Workshop: “Violette Nozière: The Wounds of Class in 1930s Paris”
Monday, March 5 from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Institute seminar room
Special performance with masks—free and open to the public—staged reading of shortened version of Sophocles’ ANTIGONE—Saturday, Nov. 18, 2006, 6:30 pm.
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Bernadette FORT (Institute Fellow, WCAS French & Italian)
Workshop: "Wrestling with the Fathers: Jean-Baptiste Greuze's Ventures in History Painting"
Monday, November 6 from 4:00-5:30 pm, Institute Seminar Room
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Betsy ERKKILA (Institute Fellow, English)
Workshop: "Romancing the Revolution: Jefferson’s Declaration"
Monday, November 27 from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Institute seminar room.
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