What is Mediterranean Studies?
Date:
Thu, 02/17/2011 - 12:30
A reading group led by Sharon Kinoshita
Location:
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh
Humanities Center
Colloquium: Eighteenth Century Capitalism and the Cultural Origins of the French Revolution
Date:
Thu, 02/10/2011 - 12:30
William Sewell presents and Seymour Drescher responds in this Humanities Center Colloquium.
Location:
602 Cathedral of Learning
Contact Person:
Todd Reeser
Contact Email:
reeser@pitt.edu
How to do Things in the Medieval Mediterranean
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Wed, 01/12/2011 - 17:00
Sharon Kinoshita,works in Mediterranean Studies with Brian Catlos (History, UCSC), she co-directs the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies as well as the University of California Multicampus Research Project Initiative in Mediterranean Studies (http://mediterraneanseminar.org).
Location:
602 Cathedral Of Learning
Cost:
Free
Contact Person:
Todd Reeser
Contact Phone:
412-624-8519
Contact Email:
humctr@pitt.edu
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Date:
Thu, 12/09/2010 - 09:45 to 15:50
Three sessions will be presented: Texts in Context; Deferral, Other, Boundary; and Subjects in Crisis.
Location:
602 Cathedral of Learning
Contact Person:
Lina Insana
Contact Email:
insana@pitt.edu
The Humanities as a Foreign Language
Date:
Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:00
This colloquium will feature Dennis Looney, Nancy Glazener and John Beverley.
Location:
602 Cathedral of Learning
Contact Person:
Victoria Duerr
Contact Email:
vad16@pitt.edu
Approaches: Charting the Sicilian Island through Other Spaces and Non-Places
Date:
Thu, 11/11/2010 - 12:30
Lina Insana, Pitt Faculty Fellow, will lead this colloquium.
Location:
602 Cathedral of Learning
Cartographic Dante
Date:
Fri, 11/05/2010 - 15:00
The 2010 Nicholas C. Tucci Lecture will be presented by Theodore J. Cachey, the Albert J. Ravarino Family Director of Dante and Italian Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, at the University of Notre Dame.
Location:
144 The English Room, Cathedral of Learning
How Jesus Celebrated Passover: Renaissance Scholarship and the Jewish Origins of Christianity
Date:
Wed, 11/03/2010 - 17:00
This lecture will be presented by Anthony Grafton, the Short-term Fellow from Princeton. A reception will follow in the Frick Fine Arts Cloister from 6 pm to 7:30 pm.
Location:
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art. A Conversation with Cuban Artists
Date:
Thu, 10/14/2010 - 12:00
In this roundtable, several of the artists participating in the art exhibit Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art (www.queloides-exhibit.com) discuss their participation in this project and issues of race and culture in contemporary Cuba. The exhibit was hosted at the Centro Wifredo Lam in Havana and opens at the Mattress Factory museum on October 15.
Location:
4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh
Cost:
Free
Contact Person:
Alejandro de la Fuente
Contact Email:
fuente2@pitt.edu
In/Comparable Intoxications: Walter Benjamin Revisited from the Hemispheric South
Date:
Thu, 10/21/2010 - 12:30 to 14:00
Hermann Herlinghaus, Pitt Faculty Fellow, will lead this colloquium discussion.
Location:
602 Cathedral of Learning
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