The latest posts from Humanities News http://apps.carleton.edu/humanities/ Reason Carleton College, 2009 <p><strong>"Contending Truths" - Humanities Center Faculty Seminar<br /></strong></p> <p> “The Life I was Supposed to Have: Explorations in Truth, Authority and the Presentation of the Self in Academia”</p> <p>Co-Sponsored with the LTC</p> <p>Alumni Guest House Meeting Room, noon - 1:15 p.m.</p> <p>Join us for presentations by faculty colleagues, lunch, and discussion:</p> <p><strong>Beth Kissileff</strong>, Religion, with comments from <strong>Clara Hardy</strong>, Classics, and <strong>William North</strong>, History</p> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:45:09 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/humanities/?story_id=512270 <p><strong>Contentious Contemplatives: Eastern and Western Perspectives</strong></p> <p>Thursday, October 22 – 4:30 p.m., Gould Library Athenaeum</p> <p>"One of the Thirty-Two Reasons Monks Fell into Hell: Buddhist Debate in Medieval Japan"</p> <p><strong>Asuka Sango</strong>, Religion</p> <p>"Cowled Cold Wars: Reflections on the Dynamics of Institutional Antagonism in Twelfth-century Europe" </p> <p><strong>William North</strong>, History</p> <p>Moderator: <strong>Greg Marfleet</strong>, Political Science</p> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:30:13 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/humanities/?story_id=506330 <p><strong>Holt Parker</strong>, University of Cincinnati, an award-winning classicist specializing in Gender Studies,Literary Theory, Augustan Poetry, Greek Lyric Poetry, Roman Comedy, and Linguistics.</p> <p>Gould Library Athenaeum</p> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:00:37 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/humanities/?story_id=566127