Winter 2012 Schedule

January 12^th – Robert Abbott, PhD Candidate in the Committee on Social Thought and Germanic Studies, “To Weep and Know Why: Rilke’s Duino Elegies and the Custom of Burial”

January 26^th – Reading, Italo Calvino: “Philosophy and Literature” and “The Burning of the Abominable House”

February 9^th – Tamar Abramov, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities, on Conrad’s “Secret Agent.”

Tuesday, February 21^st– DOC films screening of Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place. (Note, this is not a workshop-sponsored event, but it is a nicely-timed way to see the film right before Professor Pippin’s discussion of it on Thursday)

February 23^rd IN STUART 102– Robert Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy, “Active and Passive Skepticism in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place” (please note that this meeting will take place in Stuart 102, not in the usual location; it will still take place at 4:30pm)

March 1^st– Gerbert-Sylvestre Bouyssou, Université de Tours, “From Glory to Public Opinion, ‘reputation’ (doxa, δόξα) in Greek Antiquity”

March 8^th – Mike Thomas, PhD Candidate in the Committee on Social Thought, “Whitehead, Borges, and the Fictional Nature of Concepts”