We hope you will join us for the spring semester UConn Humanities Institute Fellows’ Public Talks featuring the following speakers. The talks are open to the public and will be held at the Humanities Institute, Austin Room 301.
Thursday, January 29, 2015 4:00-5:30 pm Fiona Somerset
“Silence and the Truth-teller: A medieval theory of consent and its implications”
Thursday, February 5, 2015 4:00-5:30 pm Rachel Greenblatt
"’A Beautiful and Costly Procession’: Jewish Quest for Cultural Belonging in Frankfurt and Prague (c. 1680 - 1750)”
Thursday, February 12, 2015 4:00-5:30 pm Christina Henderson
"’On the Threshold of Woman's Era’: Rebuilding the Future at a World's Fair”
Thursday, February 19, 2015 4:00-5:30 pm Martha Cutter
“The Illustrated Slave: Antislavery Books and the Graphic Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1820-1852.”
Thursday, February 26, 2015 4:00-5:30 pm Frank Costigliola
“’My Russian Self’: The Frustrated Passions of George F. Kennan”
Thursday, March 5, 2015 4:00-5:30 pm Gordon Fraser
"Nations in Revolution: Hawaiian Literature, Political Violence, and U.S. Imperial Desire"
Thursday, March 12, 2015 4:00-5:30 pm Beata Moskal
“Linguistic universals and where they come from”
Thursday, March 26, 2015 4:00-5:30 pm Lucía Santana
“Representing Spanishness in 1930s Argentina: The Republican and Galician Exiles”
Thursday, April 2, 2015 4:00-5:30 pm Jeffrey Dudas
“Regeneration through Rights: Law, Family, and the Making of Modern American Conservatism”
Thursday, April 9, 2015 4:00-5:30 pm Fakhreddin Azimi
From promoter of religion to “protector of the nation”
Mapping the emergence of Khomeini
Thursday, April 23, 2015 4:00-5:30 pm Joseph McAlhany
“’Monuments of Unageing Intellect’: An Ancient Scholar’s Life in Letters”
For more information, contact: Humanities Institute at 6-9057