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Preview of Spring 2013 Social Science and Cultural Studies Speaker Series

Announcement 10:00 PM
Social Science and Cultural Studies Spring Speakers Series This semester offers another round of engaging and important speakers.  Here is a listing of whose on tap for Spring 2013:   1. Brendan Fernandes February 5th, 5:00 Location TBD Encomium, 2011. Bio: Born in Kenya of Indian descent, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in 1989. He completed the Independent Study Program of the Whitney...

Aging in the Afterlife: The Many Deaths of Art After Modernism

Aesthetics 3:38 PM
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square (1915) AGING IN THE AFTERLIFE The Many Deaths of Art After Modernism Prof. Gregg Horowitz, Chair of the Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies, will be one of the panelists along with Julieta Arand, Paul Mattick and Yates Mckee. He is author of Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life and the co-author (with Tom Huhn and Arthur Danto) of...

“What does it Matter? All is Grace” Lisabeth During in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities

Announcement 1:14 PM
Our Professor Lisabeth During has just published a new essay in a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities on "Belief in Cinema." The full text of her essay “What does it Matter? All is Grace” is available at http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/zJGTR28uHn9DmKB9u5iQ/full Lisabeth During studied theology at the University of Cambridge, taught for many years in the Philosophy Department at the University of...