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Take this as our token that the last lecture of the 2007-2008 academic year was one to be remembered.
Showing posts with label lecture series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lecture series. Show all posts
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Herman Beavers Lecture Announced (note the date change)
The Philomathean Society Announces
a lecture by
Dr. Herman Beavers
entitled
"Bigger Goes to the Movies: Turbulence and Spectacle
in Wright's Native Son"
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
6:00 P.M.
The Philomathean Society Halls,
(see www.philomathean.org for directions)
Refreshments will be served.
Biography from Professor Beavers' website:
Herman Beavers came to Penn from Yale University, where he received his doctorate in American Studies in 1990 with a specialization in African American Literature. He is the author of Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson, which was published in 1995 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He also has a chap-book of poems, A Neighborhood of Feeling (1986) from Doris Publications. His poems have appeared in Black American Literature Forum, Whiskey Island, Rain, Cave Canem I and II, Dark Phrases, and the Cincinnati Poetry Review. Professor Beavers teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses dealing with the South and (along with Professor Elisa New) African- and Jewish-American literature. He values dialogue in classroom settings and thinks it is important for students to talk to one another about writing and literature. He also believes that his courses are much more about questions than static answers, especially when it comes to matters of race, gender, and class. And despite having very well-defined ideas about the kind of literature he enjoys, Professor Beavers likes to think he is open to persuasion.
a lecture by
Dr. Herman Beavers
entitled
"Bigger Goes to the Movies: Turbulence and Spectacle
in Wright's Native Son"
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
6:00 P.M.
The Philomathean Society Halls,
(see www.philomathean.org for directions)
Refreshments will be served.
Biography from Professor Beavers' website:
Herman Beavers came to Penn from Yale University, where he received his doctorate in American Studies in 1990 with a specialization in African American Literature. He is the author of Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson, which was published in 1995 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He also has a chap-book of poems, A Neighborhood of Feeling (1986) from Doris Publications. His poems have appeared in Black American Literature Forum, Whiskey Island, Rain, Cave Canem I and II, Dark Phrases, and the Cincinnati Poetry Review. Professor Beavers teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses dealing with the South and (along with Professor Elisa New) African- and Jewish-American literature. He values dialogue in classroom settings and thinks it is important for students to talk to one another about writing and literature. He also believes that his courses are much more about questions than static answers, especially when it comes to matters of race, gender, and class. And despite having very well-defined ideas about the kind of literature he enjoys, Professor Beavers likes to think he is open to persuasion.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Karen Detlefsen Lecture Announced
The Philomathean Society Presents
A Lecture by Professor Karen Detlefsen entitled
"Custom, Authority and Cartesianism: Mary Astell's Philosophy of Education"
March 5, 2008
6:00 PM
The Philomathean Halls
For more on Professor Detlefsen, see her website
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Elisabeth Camp Lecture Announced
BETWEEN THE LINES: Imagining Perspectives on Fiction and Life
A Lecture by Dr. Elisabeth Camp (Philosophy)
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
6 PM
The Philomathean Halls, 4th Floor College Hall (see www.philomathean.org)
Dr. Camp receieved her PhD from the Philosophy Department at UC Berkeley in 2003. She spent the next three years at Harvard, in the Society of Fellows, and joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania in the Fall of 2006. She went to to college at the University of Michigan, and graduated in 1993 with a double major in Philosophy and English. Her research focuses on mental states that don't fit the usual philosophical model of propositional thought, and in the expression of such states.
A Lecture by Dr. Elisabeth Camp (Philosophy)
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
6 PM
The Philomathean Halls, 4th Floor College Hall (see www.philomathean.org)
Dr. Camp receieved her PhD from the Philosophy Department at UC Berkeley in 2003. She spent the next three years at Harvard, in the Society of Fellows, and joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania in the Fall of 2006. She went to to college at the University of Michigan, and graduated in 1993 with a double major in Philosophy and English. Her research focuses on mental states that don't fit the usual philosophical model of propositional thought, and in the expression of such states.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
A Lecture by Professor Robert Vitalis, January 31st
The Philomathean Society announces a lecture by Professor Robert Vitalis of the Political Science department entitled:
Race, Empire, and the Origins of American International Relations
or
Why Do All the White Political Scientists Sit Together at the Professional Meetings?
January 31st 2008
6 o Clock PM
Refreshments will be served.
Professor Vitalis is the author of America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier and When Capitalists Collide. He teaches classes on American Foreign Policy, Middle Eastern Politics, and International Relations. He is the recipient of fellowships from The American Research Center in Egypt, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, The International Center for Advanced Studies, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center. In 1996, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations awarded him a Bernath Prize for his work on Egyptian political economy (from his website).
This is sure to be a fantastic event. Below are some articles on and by Professor Vitalis:
"No 'Miracles' in the desert" by Tim Hyland (Penn Current article on Vitalis' research on American empire)
"In Princes' Pockets" by Tariq Ali (London Review of Books review of America's Kingdom)
"International Studies in America" by Robert Vitalis (part of the Social Science Research Council's Roundtable on Rethinking International Studies in a Changing Global Context)
6 o Clock PM
Refreshments will be served.
Professor Vitalis is the author of America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier and When Capitalists Collide. He teaches classes on American Foreign Policy, Middle Eastern Politics, and International Relations. He is the recipient of fellowships from The American Research Center in Egypt, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, The International Center for Advanced Studies, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center. In 1996, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations awarded him a Bernath Prize for his work on Egyptian political economy (from his website).This is sure to be a fantastic event. Below are some articles on and by Professor Vitalis:
"No 'Miracles' in the desert" by Tim Hyland (Penn Current article on Vitalis' research on American empire)
"In Princes' Pockets" by Tariq Ali (London Review of Books review of America's Kingdom)
"International Studies in America" by Robert Vitalis (part of the Social Science Research Council's Roundtable on Rethinking International Studies in a Changing Global Context)
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Upcoming Lectures
The Philomathean Society Announces Some Upcoming Lectures
January 31st- Robert Vitalis- Professor of Political Science, Author of America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier and When Capitalists Collide
February 7th- Guthrie Ramsey- Associate Professor of Music, Author of Race Music
February 13th- Lawrence Bernstein- Professor of Music, specialist in Renaissance Music
All lectures will begin at 6:00 P.M. in the Philomathean Halls (University of Pennsylvania, College Hall, 4th Floor). As always, refreshments will be provided.
Check back for more information soon.
January 31st- Robert Vitalis- Professor of Political Science, Author of America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier and When Capitalists Collide
February 7th- Guthrie Ramsey- Associate Professor of Music, Author of Race Music
February 13th- Lawrence Bernstein- Professor of Music, specialist in Renaissance Music
All lectures will begin at 6:00 P.M. in the Philomathean Halls (University of Pennsylvania, College Hall, 4th Floor). As always, refreshments will be provided.
Check back for more information soon.
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