Special Announcements and Events

Monday, April 6, 2009
Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (Harvard University)
"Cruel Chardin"
6:00 p.m. 106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsors:  ECS, the Council of the Humanities
Poster

Past Events

The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Dawn of Photography: French Daugerreotypes, 1839-1855" exhibit.

Jewish Museum, New York, "The City of K.: Franz Kafka and Prague"

Jewish Museum, New York, Sander Gilman "Franz Kafka: The Sick Jew as Hypochondriac, or Why Shouldn't I Feel Good, I'm Sick"

New York Historical Society exhibit, "The British in New York"

Jewish Museum, New York exhibit, "Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918

Jewish Museum, New York, "Making an Exhibit Historical – Freud: Conflict and Culture"

New York Public Library, "Utopia Exhibit"

New York Public Library, "New World Ancient Texts"

New York Times

Past Lectures and Conferences

Nazi Germany and the Humanities, Interdisciplinary Conference, Princeton University (2003)

Martin Jay, UCLA/Institute for Advanced Study, "Somaesthetics and Democracy: John Dewey and Body Art" (2002)

"Places of Memory/Cultures of Memory" (2001) participants:

• Aleida Assman, Universität Konstanz, Princeton University
• Annete Becker, Université Paris X/Institute for Advanced Study
• David Blight, Amherst University
• Clifford Chanin, The Legacy Project
• Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University
• Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• James McFarland, Princeton University
• Ewa Thompson, Rice University
• Jay Winter, Columbia University

Jews, Germany, and the Future of Memory (1999)

Michael J. Roth, The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, "Making an Exhibition Historical 'Freud: Conflict and Culture'" (1999)

Anne Goldgar, Kings College, London, "The British Museum and the Virtual Representation of Culture in the Eighteenth Century" (1998)

Jerome McGann, University of Virginia, (1996)

Andrey Zorin, Moscow State University and The Academy of Sciences, "The Semiotics of Everyday Life: New Approaches to Literature and History of Russia" (1995)

Paul Robinson, Stanford University, "The Opera Queen: A Voice from the Closet" (1994)

Carlo Ginzburg, UCLA, "The Philosopher and Witches" (1990)

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