{"id":63476,"date":"2010-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-center-for-the-humanities-announces-fall-speaker-series\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T00:00:00","slug":"uri-center-for-the-humanities-announces-fall-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/09\/uri-center-for-the-humanities-announces-fall-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Center for the Humanities announces fall speaker series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I \u2013 September 16, 2010 \u2013Beginning next month the University of Rhode Island\u2019s Center for the Humanities will offer talks on various topics that include art and philosophy, national and gender identity, as well as the Gulf Coast as part of its fall lecture series entitled \u201cBridging the Arts, Humanities and Sciences.\u201d All events are free and open to the public. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe series begins with a book launch event. URI Philosophy Professor Galen Johnson\u2019s book, \u201cThe Retrieval of the Beautiful, Thinking through Merleau-Pont\u2019s Aesthetics,\u201d combines the study of art and various artists, with the study of philosophy and a reconfiguration of the concept of the beautiful. The event, co-sponsored by URI\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences, will feature a talk with and readings by the author followed by a question and answer period. A reception and book signing will conclude the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe complete schedule follows: <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nOct. 7, 4:30-6 p.m.: \u201cThe Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking through Merleau-Ponty\u2019s Aesthetics,\u201d Galen Johnson, URI philosophy professor and director of the Center for the Humanities. Lippitt Hall Auditorium, Room 402, 5 Lippitt Road, Kingston. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nOct. 21, 4:30-6 p.m.: \u201cFrom Perception to Conception: Metaphor, Perspective and the Art of Transition in Julio Medem\u2019s Vacas,\u201d Robert Manteiga, URI languages, film media and comparative literature professor. University Club, 95 Upper College Road, Kingston. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nOct. 28, 4:30-6 p.m.: \u201cIf It Wasn\u2019t for Bad Luck, I Wouldn\u2019t Have No Luck At All: Katrina, BP and a Tale of Trouble,\u201d Judith Swift, URI communications studies professor and director of the Coastal Institute. University Club, 95 Upper College Road, Kingston. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nNov. 8, 4:30-6 p.m.: \u201cInterior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1780-1914,\u201d Pamela Warner, URI art and art history professor. Lippitt Hall Auditorium, Room 402, Kingston. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nNov. 18, 4:30-6 p.m.: \u201cMudflat Turf Wars: Land Use Documentaries and the NFB in Vancouver in the 1970\u2019s,\u201d Jean Walton, URI English and film media professor. Lippitt Hall, Room 401 <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nDec. 2, 4:30-6 p.m.: \u201cNarrative Arithmetic, National Identity and Early Modern Pleasure Reading,\u201d Travis Williams, URI English professor. Lippitt Hall, Room 401 <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor further questions, information and directions go to http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/artsci\/cfh\/index.html. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I \u2013 September 16, 2010 \u2013Beginning next month the University of Rhode Island\u2019s Center for the Humanities will offer talks on various topics that include art and philosophy, national and gender identity, as well as the Gulf Coast as part of its fall lecture series entitled \u201cBridging the Arts, Humanities and Sciences.\u201d All events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}