Thursday, March 21, 2012
4 p.m., 102 Weaver Building
Natania Meeker, Associate Professor
Department of French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California
“Illusion without Error: Reading Lucretius like a Woman in Eighteenth-Century France”
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
4:00 pm, 102 Weaver Building
Andrew Curran, Dean of the Arts and Humanities / Professor of French, Wesleyan University
“Before Anthropology: Enlightenment ‘Science’ and the Category of the Human”
Friday, November 30th, 2012
4:00 p.m., 102 Weaver Building.
An open discussion of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction-winning book by Stephan Greenblatt on the topic, “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.” We look forward to your participation — all are welcome!
Thursday, December 6, 2012
4 p.m., Palmer Lipcon Auditorium
Dennis V. Geronimus, Associate Professor
Department of Art History, New York University,
“No Man’s Lands: Lucretius and the Lure of the Primitive in Renaissance Art”