"Illustrating Ambiguity: Melville's 'Pierre'"
Discussants: Maurice Sendak, Samuel Otter (English), and Michael Rogin (Political Science)
“They Know Everything: Children and Suffering”
Discussants: Maurice Sendak, Ravenna Helson (Psychology), and Herbert Schreier (Chair., Dept. of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital, Oakland)
Maurice Sendak is the author and illustrator of several noteworthy children’s books including In the Night Kitchen; Where the Wild Things Are; Outside Over There; and We’re All Down in the Dumps with Jack and Guy.
Panel Discussants: Sivliano Santiago, João Alimo (Brazilian Consul; Novelist; Lecturer, Spanish & Portuguese), Julio Ramos (Spanish & Portuguese)
“Brazil and the Vanguard: Modernism and Marxism, 1920-1940”
Silviano Santiago, Novelist & Critic
Essayist, poet, novelist, theorist and critic, Silviano Santiago is one of the leading Brazilian modernists focusing on concepts of “inbetweenness” and “hybridity.”
Panel Discussants: Michael Fried, T.J. Clark (History of Art) and Richard Wollheim (Philosophy)
“Caillebotte's Impressionism”
Michael Fried, Humanities and Art History, Johns Hopkins University
Art historian, art critic and literary critic, Michael Fried is J.R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and Art History at Johns Hopkins University. In his work, Fried engages questions of modernism, realism, theatricality, objecthood, self-portraiture, embodiedness, and the everyday. He has also written histories of modern art, focusing on Edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Adolph Menzel.
Panel Discussants: Maya Lin, Thomas Laqueur (History), Andrew Barshay (History), Stephen Greenblatt (English), and Stanley Saitowitz (Architecture)