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Lecture Series

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For information on the completed 2006-2007 lecture series, please see the event archive.

2007-2008 Lectures

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.

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Made possible in part by the generous support of the Harris Lecture Fund, these lectures are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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