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PAL Forum: Blade Runner

 PAL Forum: Screening of Blade Runner  **WED Nov 5 7pm. Light supper at 6:30pm. RSVP to hmw12@duke.edu. FHI Garage Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 Duke University   1982. Directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford. We will be showing the 2007 Final Cut.  

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PAL Writing is Thinking 2014-2015

 In 2014-2015 PAL is hosting our third biennial Writing is Thinking Young Scholars Workshop. This year, in addition to our spring workshop and lectures, PAL has inaugurated the first year of sponsored Graduate Student Writing Groups. We have 11 PAL-sponsored groups meeting this year.  This page is an overview of past and future WIT events…

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Graduate Certificate Courses–Spring 2015

 ENG 545S: Romantic Aesthetic Theory and Aesthetics According to a well-known–and largely accurate–narrative, the study of “aesthetics” was invented in the eighteenth century, and then consolidated in the Romantic era. This course is intended to provide an introduction to this narrative of the emergence of aesthetics as a realm of study, and we will accordingly focus on the…

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In Memoriam Kaila Brown

 Photo from Duke Chronicle, courtesy of John and Penni Brown Kaila Brown was PAL Assistant Director from 2010-2013. Her friends and colleagues at the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature and the Franklin Humanities Institute remember Kaila with warmth and love as we mourn her death on Sunday September 21, 2014. She was a vibrant,…

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Kafka Lectures

 You are invited to attend the public lectures sponsored by the PAL/FHI Seminar “Whose Kafka?” Spring 2015. We would like to call your attention to some of the last events organized by the FHI/PAL Mellon Faculty Seminar “Whose Kafka,” happening March 20th and March 23rd. John Zilcosky (University of Toronto) will be giving a lecture, “‘The Times in Which We Live:’…

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PAL Writing Groups 2014-2015

 In the humanities, writing is at the very heart of an academic’s intellectual life. The struggle to find the right words is also a struggle to find the right analysis, the right perspective, the right claims. Writing is not something we do after we have worked it all out: if writing is so hard, it…

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PAL for Graduate Students: Happy Hour!

 Monday Sept 8 5pm FHI Garage Smith Warehouse Bay 4 Duke University   You are invited to come enjoy a signature cocktail and learn more about the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature’s Graduate Student events for 2014-15. Meet students from various humanities departments, explore the PAL Certificate Program, and discover opportunities to join PAL’s exciting…

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Kafka & the Kafkaesque

 PAL/FHI Seminar “Whose Kafka? Multiplicity, Reception, and Interpretation” presents:  Kafka & the Kafkaesque Film Series All films will be shown on Mondays at 7pm in the FHI Garage, Smith Warehouse Bay 4, Duke University. Please rsvp to kafkaesquefilms@gmail.com. On Monday, March 23rd at 7:00 p.m. in the FHI Garage we will be screening two short films: K (1953) directed Lorenza Mazzetti, a founder of…

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Symposium on Action

 Sept 25-26th Duke University PAL Graduate Certificate Steering committee member Thomas Pfau, along with Vivasvan Soni at Northwestern, has organized the Symposium on Action. This is the second in a series of symposia that began with last year’s Symposium on Judgment. Invited speakers include Sarah Beckwith, Stanley Hauerwas, John McGowan, Thomas Pfau, Gretchen Reydams-Schils, and Christopher Yeomans.…

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