Past Events

| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Panel Discussants: Stephen Greenblatt, Wendy Brown (Political Science, Gender and Women’s Studies), Roland Greene, (English, Comparative Literature, Stanford University) and Jeffrey Knapp (English)

Stephen Greenblatt, American Literary Critic

“Shakespeare and the Ethics of Authority”
Avenali Lecture
| Lipman Room, Barrows Hall

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. His areas of specialization include Shakespeare, 16th- and 17th-century English literature, the literature of travel and exploration, and literary theory.

| Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Panel Discussants: Hélène Cixous, Pheng Cheah (Rhetoric), Suzanne Guerlac (French) and Judith Butler (Rhetoric, Comparative Literature)

Hélène Cixous, Université de Paris VIII

“The Flying Manuscript”
Una's Lecture
| Lipman Room, Barrows Hall

Theorist, novelist, playwright, and educational innovator Hélène Cixous is one of the best-known of the late-20th-century “French feminists.” Her work, often considered deconstructive, is known for its experimental writing that crosses the traditional limits of academic discourse into poetic language.

Performances of <em>The Man of the Heart</em>

With Avenali Resident Fellow Suman Mukherjee
Thursday, Sep 22, 2005 12:00 am -
| Durham Studio Theater

Suman Mukherjee, eminent theater director from India and Townsend Center Visiting Artist in Residence, directs Professor Sudipto Chatterjee in a solo-performance piece on the life, times and music of Lalon Phokir, the saint-composer of the multireligious “Baul” of Bengal.

“Marx’s Theory of Communism”

With Avenali Resident Fellow Gareth Stedman Jones
| Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

A conversation with Paul Thomas (Political Science).

“Reviewing Art”

With Avenali Lecturer Joan Acocella
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Acocella with Alla Efimova (Judah L. Magnes Museum), Ramona Naddaff (Rhetoric), and Joshua Kosman (San Francisco Chronicle); moderated by Anthony J. Cascardi (Director, Consortium for the Arts).