September 20-21, 2007
British and Irish Studies conference – “Affect: Sensation and Sensibility”
The Center for British and Irish Studies is delighted to announce a conference on “Affect: Sensation and Sensibility” that will feature six scholars presenting on topics ranging from 18th and 19th-century literature to early 20th-century global film. We have designed several events which graduate students in literature and film will benefit from enormously.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Lecture by Professor Thomas Eder, University of Vienna
Title: “Self Attribution, Introspection, and Narratology in Woolf, Musil, and Vale´ry.” (in English)
Friday, November 9, 2007
Lecture by Professor Thomas Eder, University of Vienna
Titled: “Kristallisationspunkte von ,Gestalt’. 1800 – 1900 – 2000: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christain von Ehrenfels, George Lakoff.” (in German)
Professor Thomas Eder is the author of Unterschiedenes ist / gut. Reinhard Priessnitz und die Repoetisierung der Avantgarde [The Differentiated is / good: Reinhard Priessnitz and the Repoeticization of the Avant-Garde] (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2003) and co-editor of Zur Metapher: Die Metapher in Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Literatur [On Metaphor: Metaphor in Philosophy, Science, and Literature] (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2007). He has also published over fifty articles and essays on contemporary Austrian literature and on literary theory. The lecture in English is part of a larger project on the use and misuse of theory of mind and cognitive science in narratology and literary theory. These talks are sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of French and Italian, the Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities, the Center for British and Irish Studies, and the Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
March 8, 2008
Humanities Undergraduate Seminar
The CU Humanities Club announces the first undergraduate Humanities Conference at CU! This is a great opportunity for students to share their academic work with students across Colorado and experience a unique undergraduate opportunity. Students are asked to submit work based on the theme The Human Experience (work can be papers already used for class). 30 students will be selected to present their work on March 8 at the conference. There will also be a film screening and poetry reading of submitted work. Thank you for your time and we would love to see your work.
Submission guidelines as follows:
- Submit to CUHumanitiesconference@gmail.com
- Submission should have a cover page with Name, School, academic year, phone and email, There should be no identification within the paper as the judging is blind
- Academic Papers any subject as long as it relates to theme – if in doubt still submit should be between 5-15 pages
- Fiction and Poetry Pieces Limited to 10 pages no minimum
- Videos and Art pieces can be in any format, videos limited to 15 minutes
- Student retains all rights to work
Deadline for Submission is Feb 22, 2008
Conference where work will be presented will take place on March 8, 2008
April 6 – 20, 2008
Shakespeare Oratorio Society presents four performances of “Richard III.”
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Joint Colloquium with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature
Dr. Konstantin Bogdanov of the University of Constance (Germany) & Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Science (St. Petersburg) will give a talk entitled “How to Write (Russian) History? Putin, the Annales School, and the Intimization of History.” Dr. Bogdanov will compare the cultural rhetoric displayed in present discussions about how Soviet history should be presented in new textbooks with the concept of ideal history as exemplified by Lucien Febvre of the French school of Annales. The discussion on postSoviet history textbooks is closely connected with the ongoing process of the “restoration of national pride” launched by Putin’s cultural politics. Refreshments will be served.
Thursday April 10, 2008
Prof. J. Gordon Finlayson, of the University of Sussex will give a lecture entitled “The Ethnics of Resistance and the Problem of Noramative Foundations: Adorno and Habermas.” Professor Finlayson is Senior Lecturer in Philsophy at the University of Sussex and is the author of numerous articles on topics including Kant, Hegel, Adorno, Habermas and contemporary politics in Germany, as well as the highly acclaimed Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2005). He is currently completing a book-length study of Habermas’ discourse ethics. This lecture is co-sponsored with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature.
Friday, April 11-12, 2008
Symposium on the History and Representation of Spanish Science
Thomas F. Glick (Boston University): “‘All over but the shouting’: Science and Civil Discourse in Spain, 1898 – 1945.”
Andrés Prieto (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Neither Fish nor Fowl: Memory and Taxonomy in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo’s Sumario de la natural historia.”
Silvia Arroyo (University of Colorado, Boulder) “La disección el fantasma de las anatomias: estratgias retóricas de legimación en el discurso médico del Renacimento peninsular.”
Maria Luz López Terrada, (CISC, Spain) “El Control del ejercicio médico en la Monarquia Hispánica (Siglos XVI Y XVII).”
William Eamon (New Mexico State University) “The Black Legend and the History of Early Modern Spanish Science.”
John Slater (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Momentary Monuments: Literature, Natural History, and the Politics of Dissemination.”
Dale Pratt (Brigham Young University) “The Minds in the Caves: Early Human Subjectivities in Spanish Literature and Science.”
April 22, 2008
Lecture by: Professor Patrick Greaney, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Title: “Inciting Citation: Commodity Language in Marx, Baudelaire, and Debord.”