Events

Special Event: Thursday, 12 November, 4:30-6:00: Prof. Catherine Sama, URI, Italian and Film Media, and Prof. Wendy Roworth, URI, Art History
University Club
Book signing with talks by the authors:
Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour (Stanford, 2009).

Thursday, 3 December, 4:30-6:00: Roundtable on Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
University Club
URI Continental Philosophy Research Group: Profs. Stephen Barber (English), Alain-Philippe Durand (French), Galen Johnson (Philosophy), Naomi Mandel (English), Ric McIntyre (Economics), and Ryan Trimm (English)

Monday, 12 October, 3:30-5:30: Prof. Hasan Elahi, San Jose State University
Lippitt Hall Auditorium, Room 402
“Transient Borders: Indian Art Today”
Co-Sponsored with URI Honors Colloquium and URI Department of Art
(Flyer for this presentation—pdf)

Wednesday, 14 October, 4:00-6:00: Prof. Mary Cappello, URI, English
Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life (Alyson Books, 2009)
Reading, with a talk by the author, Q&A, and book signing
Co-Sponsored with URI College of Arts and Sciences, URI Departments of English, Psychology, and Women’s Studies, The Dana Shugar Lecture Series, URI READ / WRITE, URI Bookstore

Thursday, 29 October, 4:00-6:00: Prof. Barbara Hernstein Smith, Brown and Duke Universities, English, Comparative Literature
University Club
"Angles on Relativism: Historical, Anthropological, Political, and Philosophical" (event poster—pdf)

Thursday, 12 February, 4:30-6:00pm:

• Prof. Cheryl Foster, URI, Philosophy—“Writing Philosophically Informed Fiction”.
• Prof. Wendy Roworth, URI, Art History—“Salvator Rosa’s Fortuna and the Fortunes of Salvator Rosa”

Thursday, 26 February, 4:30-6:00pm:

• George Steele (ABD), URI, English—“(Re)Scoring the Silent Film: Music, Modernism, Affect”

Thursday, 2 April, 4:30-6:00pm:

• Prof. Ryan Trimm, URI, English—"Cultural Value: Transacting Worth in Post-Imperial Britain”

Wednesday, 19 November 4:30-5:30pm—Dr. Robert Weisbord, URI, History

Title: “Racial Questions in the modern Olympics – The Case of Mexico City (1968)

Friday, 21 November 4:00pm—Dr. Robert L. Hohlfelder, History, U. of Colorado

Title: “An Architectural Revolution Beneath the Sea: Building Harbors in the Roman Empire”

Monday, 10 November 4:30-6:00pm—Dr. Richard P. McIntyre, URI, Economics & Dr. Scott Molloy, URI Labor Research Center

Discussion and book signing with two of URI’s recent humanities authors: Dr. McIntyre, Are Worker Rights Human Rights? (The University of Michigan Press, 2008); Dr. Molloy, Irish Titan, Irish Toilers, Joseph Banigan and 19th Century New England Labor (University of New Hampshire Press, 2008).

Wednesday, 5 November 3:30-5:00pm—Dr. Alain-Philippe Durand, URI, French

Monday, 20 October, 7pm—Best Selling Author, Antonia Arslan: "Skylark Farm" (copy of program announcement—MSWord document)

Tuesday, 21 October 8pm—Best Selling Author, Antonia Arslan: Screening of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's film adaptation of Arslan's novel: "La Masseria delle Allodole"

Wednesday, 29 October 4:30-6:00pm—Dr. Timothy George, URI, History, “Toroku: Mountain Dreams, Chemical Nightmares” & Dr. Joelle Rollo-Koster, URI, History, “Textual Forensic…or, The Tedious and often Thrilling Job of a Medievalist”