News & Events
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Institute fellows as well as the Library Fellow and Faculty and Graduate Affiliates, appear on the Fellows and affiliates page.
Evanston Northwestern Humanities Lecture Series
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Lecture Series
Fall 2008
Hayden White (University Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University)
Topic: "The Practical Past."
Lecture Date /Time Wednesday October 15, 5 pm
Colloquium Date/Time: Thursday October 16, Noon
Venue: McCormick Tribune Forum, 1870 Campus Drive
Winter 2009
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa and Professor Emeritus, History Department, UCLA)
Topic: “The Invisible Text: Dante on Reading and Writing”
Lecture Date: Wednesday, January 14, 5 pm
Colloquium Date/Time: Thursday January 15, Noon
Venue: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street
Spring 2009
Kay Kaufman Shelemay (G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University)
Topic: “ 'Traveling Music': Mulatu Astatke and the Genesis of Ethio-Jazz."
Lecture Date: Wednesday, May 6, 5:00 pm
Colloquium Date/Time: Thursday, May 7, Noon
Venue: Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark Street
Evanston Northwestern Humanities Lecture Series
Fall 2008
Jeffrey Garrett (Northwestern University Library)
Public lecture: "Screams and Smiles: The Cultural Anthropology of Children’s Book Illustration."
Lecture Date: Thursday, October 23, 7:00 p.m
Venue: 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.
