Events
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Fall, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
5:00 pm The Hoffman Room, Swan Hall
"Deranged and Dangerous: Anomie in Knut Hamsun's
Hunger and Tom McCarthy's Remainder"
URI Graduate Student
Mihaela P Harper
Reception to follow.
Flyer for this presentation - pdf
Thursday, December 1, 2011
5:00 pm The Hoffman Room, Swan Hall
"Our House is God": Tracing the Numinous in
Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
URI Graduate Student
Andrew J. Ploeg
Reception to follow.
"Save the Date"
URI Spring Humanities Festival
Thursday & Friday, March 29 - 30th, 2012
Keynote speaker - Lynn Pasquerella, President, Mount Holyoke College
Previous Events, Spring 2011:
Monday, April 25, 2011
4:00 pm Lippitt Hall Auditorium, 402
"Missing and Unfinished Platonic Dialogues"Professor Mary Louise Gill, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Brown University
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Co-Sponsored Events, Spring 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
The 5th Annual Graduate Student Conference
8:30am- 5:30 pm: Swan Hall
Keynote Address by Professor Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota
"Homiletic Realism and Imperial Form"
4:00 pm Agnes G. Doody Auditorium
Plenary Address by Professor Martha Rojas, University of Rhode Island
"On Industry: Literary Occupation and the Early Republic"
8:30am Swan Hall, Room 305
Graduate Panels in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Four Sessions, 9:30am-4:00pm
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T, April 26, 2011 - Th, April 28, 2011
URI Distinguished Visiting International Scholar
Dr. Oleksandr Kovriga, Professor of Aesthetics
V.N. Karazin National University
Kharkiv, Ukraine
T - April 26, 4:30 pm
Opening Reception
The University Club
W - April 27, 4:00 pm
Popular Lecture
"From Universitas to Noosphere: How to Educate to Save the Planet"
Lippitt Hall Auditorium, 402
Th - April 28, 12:30 pm
Professional Lecture
"20 Years Later: Some Reflections on the Nature of our New post-Soviet Union."
Lippitt Hall Auditorium, 401
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Thursday, April 14, 2011
4:00 pm Lippitt Hall Auditorium, 402
Phi Beta Kappa Public Lecture
Paul Alpers, Class of 1942 Professor of English, Emeritus,
University of California, Berkeley and Professor-In-Residence, Smith College
Reception to follow.
Sponsors: Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of Rhode Island, URI Center for the Humanities, Honors Program, College of Arts & Sciences, and Department of English.
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Tuesday—Thursday, April 5-7, 2011
URI Distinguished Visiting International Scholar
Dr. Mauro Carbone,
Professor of Aesthetics
Facult? de Philosophie de l'Universit? "Jean-Moulin,"
Lyon 3, France
Tuesday, April 5, 4:00 pm
Opening Reception
URI Alumni Center
Wednesday, April 6, 4:00 pm
Popular Lecture
"Silence, Philosophy, and Life"
Lippitt Hall Auditorium, 402
Thursday, April 7, 4:00 pm
Professional Lecture
"The Philosopher and the Moviemaker: Cinema according to Merleau-Ponty"
Lippitt Hall Auditorium, 402
Thursday, April 7, 7:00 pm
"Proust"Graduate Seminar open to the public.
Lippitt Hall Auditorium, 402
Sponsors: URI Office of the Provost, College of Arts & Sciences, Center for the Humanities, Honors Program, Departments of English, Philosophy, and Film Media.
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Thursday, March 17, 2011
4:00 - 6:30 pm: Lippitt Hall Auditorium, 402
Lawrence Hass, Professor of Humanities
Austin College, Sherman, Texas.
A Magic Performance. A Seminar on the Philosophy of Perception and Magic.
Flyer for this presentation (PDF)
URI Spring Humanities Festival
Thursday & Friday, March 10 - 11, 2011"Bridging the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences"
Flyer for this presentation (PDF)
Humanities Festival Full Program (PDF)
Co-Sponsored by: College of Arts & Sciences, Office of the Provost, and the URI Honors Program
Festival Director: Prof. Karen de Bruin, Languages (French)
Speaker Lineup: Main speakers are recent recipients of Center for the Humanities Grants or Fellowships.
Thursday, March 10
6:30pm: Reception, URI Alumni Center
7:30 pm: Swan Hall Auditorium
"Swallowed and Saved: The Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection and the Art it has Inspired"
Mary Cappello, URI Department of English
An illustrated reading by the author, Q&A, and book signing.
Friday, March 11
All events take place in Lippitt Hall Auditorium, Room 402
10:00am
"Coming to Akko: Developments in Underwater Archaeology"
William H. Krieger, URI Department of Philosophy
Co-Director: Israel Coast Explorations
1:30pm"First Impressions: Becoming a Nation Among Nations"
Martha Rojas, URI Department of English
3:30pm
Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel (University of Virginia Press, 2010)
Carolyn Betensky, URI Department of English
Book release with a talk by the author, Q&A, and book signing. Reception follows.
Additional special readings, screenings, interpretive pieces by URI graduate and undergraduate students will be interspersed throughout the day.
Previous Events, Fall 2010
Thursday, October 21, 5:00 - 6:30, Lippitt Hall, Room 401:
Prof. Robert C. Manteiga, URI, Languages, Film Media, and Comparative Literature
"From Perception to Conception: Metaphor, Perspective, and the Art of Transition in Julio Medem's Vacas."
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Thursday, October 28, 5:00 - 6:30, Lippitt Hall, Room 401:
Prof. Judith Swift, URI, Communication Studies and Director of the Coastal Institute
"If It Wasn't for Bad Luck I Wouldn't Have No Luck At All: Katrina, BP, and a Tale of Trouble"
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Monday, November 8, 4:30-6:00, Lippitt Hall Auditorium, Room 402:
Prof. Pamela Warner, URI, Art and Art History
"Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1780-1914."
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Thursday, November 18, 5:00 - 6:30, Lippitt Hall, Room 401:
Prof. Jean Walton, URI, English and Film Media
"Mudflat Turf Wars: Land Use Documentaries and the NFB in Vancouver in the 1970's."
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Thursday, December 2, 5:00 - 6:30, Lippitt Hall, Room 401:
Prof. Travis Williams, URI, English
"Narrative Arithmetic, National Identity, and Early Modern Pleasure Reading."
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Prof. Galen A. Johnson, URI, Philosophy and Director, Center for the Humanities
"The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics." Book Launch: Reading, with talk by Author, Q&A, and book signing. Co-Sponsored wth the URI College of Arts and Sciences.
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Previous Events, Spring 2010
Thursday, February 4, 4:30-6:00, University Club:
Prof. Ann Suter, URI, Classics
"Ancient Obscenity and its Relationship to the Sacred."
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Monday, February 22, 4:30-6:00, Lippitt Hall Auditorium, Room 402:
Prof. Duane Davis, Univ. of North Carolina-Ashiville, Philosophy
"Dwelling and Dwellings in the Face of Modernity: On Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger."
Co-sponsored with URI Departments of Philosophy and English.
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Thursday, March 4, 4:30-6:00, University Club:
Prof. Marie Jenkins Schwartz, URI, History
"Slaves in the First Family: The Washingtons."
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Monday, April 5, 4:30-6:00, Lippitt Hall Auditorium, Room 402:
Prof. Karen Stein, URI, English and Women's Studies
"Reading, Learning, Teaching Toni Morrison"
Co-sponsored with the URI Department of Women's Studies
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Thursday, April 22, 4:30-6:00, University Club:
Prof. Evelyn Sterne, URI, History
"Blue State Bible Belt: Evangelical Protestantism in 20th Century New England."
Flyer for this presentation—pdf
Previous Events, Fall 2009
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 November: Prof. Catherine Sama, URI, Italian and Film Media, and Prof. Wendy Roworth, URI, Art History
Book signing with talks by the authors:
Italy?s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour (Stanford, 2009)
Previous Events, Spring 2009
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?
Announcement flyer—pdf
Previous Events, Fall 2008
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?
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