"Politics of Nature"
“Conversion and Autobiography: Pattern, Experience, and Salvation”
Anthony Grafton, History, Princeton University
Anthony Grafton is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University. His work focuses primarily on the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, the history of books and readers, scholarship and education in the West from Antiquity to the 19th century, and the history of science from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
“Opening the Word Hoard: Readings from <em>Beowulf</em>”
A reading and discussion in cooperation with the Department of English.
Seamus Heaney: Avenali Panel Discussion
Panel Discussants: Seamus Heaney and Robert Hass (English)
Seamus Heaney, Poet & Playwright
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2006, Seamus Heaney has published more than 10 volumes of poetry, three collections of prose, one play, and numerous chapbooks, translations, and lectures.
Public Reading
A public reading by Una's Lecturer J.M. Coetzee.
South-African novelist, literary critic, and translator J.M. Coetzee is the recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature and a two-time winner of the Booker Prize. His writing often uses his country's apartheid system and its post-apartheid transition as a mirror for the bleakness of the human condition.