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Archive of Past Events
Realisms
The Humanities Center Lectures
Spring 2009
Jan. 27, 4:30 PM: "Modernism as Realism," Colin MacCabe, Distinguished University Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh, and Professor of English and Humanities, Birkbeck University, London. Adamson Wing, Baker Hall.
Feb. 10, 4:30 PM: "The Virtues of Realism?: Gender in/and the Postcolonial Novel," Sangeeta Ray, Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, College Park. Margaret Morrison 103.
February 26 - March 8: The Faces of Realism Film Festival
http://www.cmu.edu/faces/
Mar. 16, 4:30 PM: "The Antinomies of Realism," Fredric Jameson, William A. Lane, Jr., Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University, and Schaffer Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Mellon U. Margaret Morrison 103.
Mar. 31, 5:00 PM: "An Almost Unknown Masterpiece: Cecco del Caravaggio's The Resurrection." Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University. Adamson Wing, Baker Hall.
Co-sponsored by the Public Art Cluster of the Center for the Arts in Society.
The spring Realisms lectures are co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program and the Department of English, University of Pittsburgh.
Realisms
The Humanities Center Lectures
Fall 2008
"Idealism / Realism/ Modernism: Rethinking Literary History, or, How Modernism Emerged"
Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature & Romance Studies and Professor of English,
Duke University
Wednesday, September 24, 4:30 PM, Margaret Morrison 103
"The Macro as Micro: Henry James and the Three Wars"
Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies, Yale University
Thursday, October 30, 4:30 PM, Margaret Morrison 103
Symposium on the African Novel
"Realism and the African Novel"
Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Wednesday, November 19th, 4:30 PM, 501 Cathedral of Learning (University of Pittsburgh)
"J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of Africa"
David Attwell, Head of the English Department, University of York (U. K.).
hursday, November, 20th, 4:30 PM, Margaret Morrison 103 (Carnegie Mellon)
Abiola Irele and David Attwell in Dialogue
Friday, November 21st, Noon, 501 Cathedral of Learning (University of Pittsburgh)
The fall Realisms lectures are co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program and the Department of English, University of Pittsburgh.
Faculty Research Colloquium 2007-08: MECHANIZATION: Aspects of its historical development
The mechanization of physical and intellectual labor has had an enormous impact on economic and social developments, as well as human self-understanding.
In the fall, the Humanities Lectures presented facets of historical developments, beginning with a discussion of mechanical devices in the 17th century and the mechanistic turn in the thinking of Descartes, Hobbes, and Leibniz. The historical sketch ended with Turing's abstract computing machines and their realization in modern computers.
In the spring, the Humanities Lectures focused on contemporary applications of computational theory and technology, but also related, deeply human problems. The applications concern, in particular, the computational modeling of aspects of the human mind; the problems pertain to moral agency and social values.
Organizing Committee: David Danks, David Hounshell, Wilfried Sieg (Chair), Michael West, Michael Witmore
Spring 2008 Schedule
Fall 2007 Schedule
2006-07:
• Liberalisms
• Faces of Democracy: The Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival 2006
2005:
• The Humanities and Expertise
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The Humanities Center is now accepting applications for a 2010-2011 Residential Fellowship.
The Humanities Center welcomes Karen Piper, 2009-10 Fellow.
2009-10 Lecture Series:
Global Connections, Global Responsibilities
Spring Film Festival:
Faces of Globalization
(details forthcoming)
Links
Humanities Departments:
English
History
Philosophy
Modern Languages
College of Humanities and
Social Sciences
Center for the Arts in Society
The Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy
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