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PAL Fall 2014 Events

   Download schedule as PDF:  PAL Fall Events Flyer 2014   Sept 8, 5pm.  PAL for Graduate Students! Happy Hour! Come enjoy a signature cocktail, find out about the exciting new PAL Writing Groups project, and rediscover the PAL Graduate Certificate (all the PAL Certificate professors will be there!) 5:00pm Happy Hour & Mixer 5:30pm PAL…

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Introducing…

 the new PAL/FHI Seminars on Concepts, Figures, and Art Forms. (1) The Contemporary Novel  (2) Whose Kafka?   Keep an eye open for announcements of their events throughout the year! Events will include: A symposium on the contemporary novel Oct 31-Nov 1 Kafka and the Kafkaesque Film Series Public lectures from visiting scholars These seminars have been developed to honor the humanities’ commitment to historically based knowledge. They will convene throughout the academic year 2014/15, beginning in the fall semester. The “Concepts, Figures, Art Forms” collaboration between PAL and FHI is a central element of a new series of FHI Seminars in Historical, Global, and Emerging Humanities, a 3-year initiative generously…

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“Imagining the Time of Art’s Histories”

 A lecture by Keith Moxey, Art History, Barnard College & Columbia University Thurs. Oct 23 6pm Reception 6:30pm Lecture FHI Garage Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 Duke University   Imagining the Times of Art’s Histories: Recent interest in the phenomenological presence of the image has made it a commonplace to speak of the “agency” of objects. This…

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New Intellectual Women Series

 The Making and Unmaking of Women’s Intellectual Reputations: Mme du Châtelet and Mary Wollstonecraft Thurs. Oct 2 5:45pm Reception 6:00pm Symposium FHI Garage Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 Duke University   Our new Intellectual Women series kicks off with an 18th century session: “Emilie Du Châtelet, in and out of the canon” Karen Detlefsen, Philosophy, University…

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How to Start a Writing Group

 Thurs Sept 18 5:30pm FHI Garage Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 Applications to join a PAL-sponsored writing group will be available at the Sept 8 Happy Hour, or download it here: PAL Writing Group Application. Join us on Sept 18 to learn about the PAL-sponsored Writing Groups and how to start your own writing group. This…

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Fall 2014 PAL Certificate Courses

 **Updated to Include: ENG 890S-01 LIT 681S – WITTGENSTEINIAN PERSPECTIVES ON LITERARY THEORY–Tu 3:05PM – 5:35PM   Key questions in literary theory reconsidered from the point of view of ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, Cavell). Topics will vary, but may include: meaning, language, interpretation, intentions, fiction, realism and representation, voice, writing, the subject,…

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Grammatical Stirrings II: Threads of the Inner and Outer

 Reading Cavell’s The Claim of Reason–Threads of the Inner and Outer Close-reading the first third of Part Four of The Claim of Reason with Richard Fleming. Download excerpts: The Claim of Reason–Source Texts  Friday, March 21 Morning Session: 10am-12:30pm SkepticismCriteriaDisappointmentPrivacyExpression Lunch Provided (RSVP to heather.wallace@duke.edu) Afternoon Session: 2pm-5pm WordsOthersAnxietyAcceptanceOrdinary Dinner party to follow. (Everyone is invited. RSVP to heather.wallace@duke.edu)…

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