Fall 2009
Events in the Humanities
September
Artist's Talks: In Between: Works by Kelly Connole and Beth Lo
"Plumb Bobs and Other Curiosities: Recent Work by Kelly Connole, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Carleton
Lucas Lecture Series. Work–in-progress showing: The SITI Theater Company performing Jocelyn Clarke’s adaptation of Antigone.
Sponsored by Theater and Dance
October
Artist's Talks: In Between: Works by Kelly Connole and Beth Lo
“Family, Race and Culture: Artistic Influences” Beth Lo, Professor of Art, University of Montana. Co-sponsored by Art and Art History and the Elizabeth Nason Distinguished Women Visitors Fund
Reading Group. Pierre Bayard’s “How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read.” Led by Scott Carpenter, Professor of French Sponsored by the Humanities Center and French and Francophone Studies
“La Crónica Modernista en Centroamérica” (in Spanish) Ricardo Roque Baldovinos, Professor of Literature, Communications and Journalism at the Central American University (UCS) in El Salvador. He directed the prestigious journal Cultura in El Salvador, between 1997-1999. His books include Arte y Parte: ensayos de literature, The Collected Narrative Works of Salarrué (editor) and of Tensiones de la Modernidad en Centroamérica (co-editor with Valeria Grinberg-Pla). Sponsored by the Spanish Department and Latin American Studies
Julian Bond, Professor of History at the American University and the University of Virginia. The inaugural speaker in The Broom Lecture in the American Demographic Experience series, Dr. Bond served from 1998 until recently as Chairman of the Board of the NAACP, the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States. He was also first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and a co-founder with Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin, Jr. Professor Bond has a long history as an activist for social justice and peace. Sponsored by Sociology and Anthropology
“Animals as Subjects and Objects: Hunting and Husbandry in Early Modern Europe”
Professor Marcy Norton, George Washington University, specialist in Atlantic World and Latin American History. Herbert P. Lefler Lecture sponsored by the History Department
“Thomas Jefferson, Libraries and Enlightenment”
Frank Shuffelton, Professor Emeriti, University of Rochester, a specialist in the literature of the Revolutionary Era and the early republic, is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson. Sponsored by the English Department
“War Work: Artists Address Iraq and Other Wars” Megan Vossler and John Risseeuw: Two Artists Engage War. Sponsored by the Art Gallery
“Escribir desde la frontera” Najat el Hachmi studied Arab literature at the University of Barcelona and currently resides in Granollers. Author of the autobiographical Jo també sóc catalana (I too am Catalan, 2004), she won the most prestigious award in Catalan letters, the Ramon Llull prize, for her novel L'últim patriarca (The Last Patriarch), 2008. Sponsored by the Department of Spanish, Distinguished Women Visitors, and the Humanities Center
“Contending Truths”
Humanities Center Faculty Seminar
Dialogos 1: Faculty Research Exchange. “The Life I was Supposed to Have: Explorations in Truth, Authority and the Presentation of the Self in Academia” Beth Kissileff, Religion, with comments from Clara Hardy, Classics, and William North, History. Co-sponsored with the LTC
Dialogos 2: Faculty Research Exchange. Contentious Contemplatives: Eastern and Western Perspectives. “One of the Thirty-Two Reasons Monks Fell into Hell: Buddhist Debate in Medieval Japan” Asuka Sango, Religion
“Cowled Cold Wars: Reflections on the Dynamics of Institutional Antagonism in Twelfth-century Europe”. William North, History
Arika Okrent, Author of the critically acclaimed In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language, will give a public lecture. Sponsored by Linguistics and English
William Shakespeare’s, Measure for Measure, directed by Ruth Weiner, will be performed by the Carleton Players. Sponsored by Theater and Dance
November
“Popular Sex and Popular Culture,” Holt Parker, University of Cincinnati, an award-winning classicist widely published in Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Augustan Poetry, Greek Lyric Poetry, Roman Comedy, Linguistics.
“War Work: Artists Address Iraq and Other Wars”
Bearing Witness after Abu Ghraib: Perspectives from an Artist and a Human Rights Lawyer, Daniel Heyman, Philadelphia-based artist; Katherine Gallagher, lawyer, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York. Sponsored by the Art Gallery
“An Evening with Keith Harrison and Jackson Bryce” reading from Now and Then: Inland Songs and Poems Sponsored by the English Department