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Colloquium Series Fall 1990
Levis Faculty Center Monday 8.00 pm |
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| 10 September |
Richard Schacht |
Philosophy:
"Nietzsche's Kind of Philosophy" |
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Respondents: |
William Calder, Classics
William Shroeder, Philosophy
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Background Reading: |
Friederich Nietzsche, Prefaces 1886-1888
The Gay Science (book 5) |
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| 8 October |
Paula Treichler |
College of Medicine and Institute of Communications Research:
"How to Have Theory in an Epidemic"
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Respondents: |
Lisa Duggan,History
John Erni, Speech Communications
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Background Reading: |
Benjamin Freedman, "Nonvalidated Therapies and HIV Disease"
Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia |
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| 5 November |
Janet Lyon |
English:
"Manifestoes, Modernism, and Suffragettes" |
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Respondents: |
Linda Baughman,Institute of Communications Research
Peter Fritzsche,History
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Background Reading: |
Jane Marcus, Suffrage and the Pankhursts (introduction)
Christabel Pankhurst (selections)
Marjorie Perloff, The Futurist Movement (selections)
Wyndham Lewis (selections) |
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| 3 Decenber |
Michael Bérubé |
English:
"Institutions, Authorizations" |
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Respondents: |
Kal Alston, Educational Policy Studies
Cary Nelson, English
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Background Reading: |
Jonathan Culler, Framing the Sign (selections)
Richard Ohmann, "The Function of English at the Present Time" |