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Colloquium Series Fall 1993
Levis Faculty Center Monday 8:00 pm |
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| 13 September |
Elizabeth Bohls |
English: "Aesthetics, Gender, and Empire in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" |
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Respondents: |
Allen Hance Philosophy
Janet Lyon English and Women's Studies |
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Background Reading: |
Laura Brown, Ends of Empire (selections)
David Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste"
Gayatri Spivak, "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" |
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| 11 October |
Geof Bowker |
Library and Information Science: "A Time and a Place for Everything: Theories of Unified Social and Scientific Time and Space" |
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Respondents: |
David Breeden Philosophy
Irving Elichirigoity History |
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Background Reading: |
Barbara Adam, Time and Social Theory (selections)
Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labor (selections) |
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| 8 November |
Panel Discussion: |
"Wittgenstein and Literature" |
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Gabrielle von Natzmer Cooper German
Lynette Reid Philosophy
Donald Smith English |
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Background Reading: |
Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Remarks on Frazier's Golden Bough"
Frank Cioffi, "Wittgenstein and the Fire Festivals"
Marjorie Perloff, "Toward a Wittgensteinian Poetics" |
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| 6 December |
Melissa Orlie |
Political Science: "A Political Ethos of Conscience" |
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Respondents: |
Dilip Gaonkar Speech Communication
Hans-Herbert Koegler Philosophy |
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Background Reading: |
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (selections); "Thinking and Moral Considerations"
Michel Foucault, "What is Enlightenment?"; "The Ethic of Care for the Self as a Practice of Freedom" |