News and Events

2008-2009

Lectures and Colloquia:

September 2008

Erika Fischer-Lichte residency at the Franklin Humanities Institute

Residency Schedule:
Tuesday, September 9, 4:30pm, 240 Franklin Center Lecture: Culture as Performance: Developing a Concept of Performance

Friday, September 12, 12-2pm, 240 Franklin Center Faculty/Graduate Seminar Session 1

Thursday, September 18, 4:30pm, 240 Franklin Center Lecture: Blurring the Boundaries between Reality and Fiction in Contemporary Theatre

Friday, September 19, 12-2pm, 240 Franklin Center Faculty/Graduate Seminar Session 2

Department of Music Faculty Recital: Faculty Recital:

Sunday, September 21, 4pm, Baldwin Auditorium (free admission)SANDRA COTTON, mezzo-soprano and DAVID HEID, piano Songs of Parting: works by Brahms, Copland, Fauré, Gluck and Korngold

Fall 2008- Spring 2009

UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University Departments of German Works in Progress Series

Tuesday, October 7 -Christian Jaeger, Kade visiting professor, UNC-CH and Duke “Writing Desiring Bodies: German Erotic Literature around 1800"

Tuesday, November 11 -Chunjie Zhang, Duke “August von Kotzebue and Postcolonial Criticism: Sentimentalism, Sexuality; the Refusal of Tragedy”

Tuesday, January 13 -Richard Benson, UNC-CH “Beyond Individuation: Story-Telling, Modernity; Tradition in Walter Benjamin and Martin Buber”

Tuesday, February 17 -Jakob Norberg, Duke “Adorno’s Advice: Minima Moralia and the Critique of Liberalism”

Tuesday, March 17 -Anna Parkinson, UNC-CH “A Rose by Any Other Name: Emotion and Politics in Margarethe von Trotta's Neo-feminist Mütterfilm”

Hosted by the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) at Duke University
All meetings will take place from 7-9 PM at the Franklin Center, Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708.

Directions, map, etc., at www.jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php

Special Events

2008- 2009

Kaffeestunde

2008-2009 Carolina
Seminar on Jewish Studies