Tears in the Fabric of the Past: New Theories of Narrative and History

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Tears in the Fabric of the Past: New Theories of Narrative and History

With Avenali Chair Eelco Runia
Avenali Lecture
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler

A conversation with Avenali Chair in the Humanities Eelco Runia about new ways of thinking, theorizing, and writing about the past, history, time, rupture, presence, and narrative, featuring: Hayden White (UC Santa Cruz, emeritus), Martin Jay (UC Berkeley), Carol Gluck (Columbia), Harry Harootunian (Columbia), and Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan).

Eelco Runia will be in residence October 27 – November 21, 2014 and will offer an Avenali Lecture titled The Theory of the Accomplished Fact on November 17, 2014 and a graduate seminar titled “Revolution: From the Fictitious to the Real.”

The Avenali events are free and open to the public.