Symposia
Fall 2009
Contending Truths: The Sites, Forms, and Functions of Polemical Discourse
Dialogos 1: "The Life I Was Supposed to Have: Explorations in Truth, Authority and the Presnetation of the Self in Academia"
Beth Kissileff, with comments from Clara Hardy, Classics, and William North, History
Thursday, October 1 at 12:00 noon, Alumni Guest House. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Teaching and Learning Center.
Dialogos 2: Contentious Monastics: Eastern and WEstern Perspectives
"One of the Thirty-Two Reasons Monks Fell into Hell: Buddhist Debate in Medieval Japan" Presented by Asuka Sango, Religion
"Cowled Cold Wars: Reflections on the Dynamics of Institutional Antagonism in Twelfth-century Europe" Presented by William North, History
Moderator: Greg Marfleet, Political Science.
Thursday, October 22, 4:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum. Sponsored by the Humanities Center.
Popular Sex and Popular Culture
Holt Parker, University of Cincinnati. Lecture by an award-winning classicist specializing in Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Augustan Poetry, Greek Lyric Poetry, Roman Comedy, Linguistics.
Monday, November 9, 3:30 p.m., Gould Library Athenaeum. Sponsored by the Humanities Center.