Past
Thursday, May 29, 2008
A discussion with Robert Harrison about his new book, Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition.
Friday, April 25, 2008
"Essaying Montaigne: An Interdisciplinary Discussion on 'De L' Expérience'."
—a panel discussion with Timothy Hampton (Berkeley), Krista Lawlor (Stanford), and Anthony A. Long (Berkeley).
This panel was part of the conference "Between Experience and Experiment in the Early Modern World," hosted by the DLCL's "Renaissances" group.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
"Reading Literarily, Reading Philosophically":
a roundtable discussion with Louis Menand (English, Harvard University) and Alison Simmons (Philosophy, Harvard University).
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Louis Menand (Harvard University): "A Few Dogmas of Literary Study."
Friday, February 22, 2008
Literature and Cognitive Science roundtables.
(1)
Irony
Herbert Clark (Psychology)
Joshua Landy (French)
Elaine Scarry (English, Harvard)
Chair: Lanier Anderson, Philosophy
(2) The Passions
Philip Fisher (English, Harvard)
James Gross (Psychology)
Chair: Blakey Vermeule, English
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Philip Fisher (English, Harvard): "Small Scale Aesthetics: Is Seeing a Form of Reading?"
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Pierre Force (French & History, Columbia):
"Hadot's Wittgenstein"
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Pierre Force: "Montaigne: What Kind of a Skeptic?"
Friday, November 2, 2007
Juergen Habermas: "'And to define America, her athletic democracy...': Richard Rorty: Philosopher and Language-Shaper"
(
A Memorial Lecture)
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature.
Friday, October 19, 2007
3:15 - 5:30 p.m.
Richard Moran (Harvard): "Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty."
Thursday, May 31, 2007
7-9 p.m.
A discussion with David Hills about his work in progress, "Bottom's Dream: Metaphor and Make-Believe."
Thursday, Apr. 12, 2007
4:30 PM
Stephen Palmer (Psychology, U.C. Berkeley): “Aesthetic Science: Oxymoron or a New Branch of Cognitive Science?”
Sponsored by The Stanford Humanities Fellows Program.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
6-8pm.
Building 60, room 62N
A discussion with Ramon Saldívar about "Bilingual Aesthetics and the Transnational Imaginary," a chapter from his book The Borderlands of Culture.
Friday, January 12, 2007
12-1:30 p.m.
Building 260, room 252
Winfried Menninghaus: "On the 'Vital Significance' of Kitsch: Walter Benjamin's Politics of 'Bad Taste.'"
Thursday, January 11, 2007
7-9 p.m.
Building 260, Room 113
Winfried Menninghaus (Freie Universität, Berlin): "Functional Narratives of Art: Negotiating Transcendental and Evolutionary Aesthetics."
Thursday, November 16, 2006
7-9 p.m.
Building 200, Room 105
A discussion with Alexander Nehamas about his book in progress, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
7-9 p.m.
Building 200, Room 107
A discussion with Blakey Vermeule about her book in progress, Machiavellian Intelligence and Theory of Mind.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
6:15-7:05 p.m.
Building 90, Room 92Q
Information event for prospective majors in Philosophy and Literature.
Hosted by Lanier Anderson (Philosophy), Joshua Landy (French), and current literature-and-philosophy majors.
Thursday, April 6, 2006
6-8 p.m.
Building 200, Room 107
A discussion with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht about his book Production of
Presence.
Respondents: Robert Harrison (Italian) and Bissera
Pentcheva (Art History).
