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The Humanities at Duke

 April 25, 2013 – Let’s Meet to Discuss the Situation of The Humanities at Duke! Many humanities faculty members have expressed concern about the situation of the humanities at Duke. It is time to come together to voice our concerns, and to brainstorm ideas for a constructive response. Many new initiatives recently launched at Duke…

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Shakespeare and Philosophy: A Symposium

 March 21st, 2013 – Shakespeare and Philosophy: A Symposium Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke University) “Shakespeare’s Private Linguist: Coriolanus, Wittgenstein, Cavell, Tragedy” Tragedy is often the underbelly of philosophy’s rational subject. It touches upon the wayward, error-ridden, chronically blind ways we go about our business. In Shakespearean tragedy we are drawn to think about the extraordinary…

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PAL Forum – Paper Presentation by Thomas Manganaro

 March 19th, 2013 Thomas Manganaro presents his paper, “‘Emergence’ in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship: Opaque Causality and the Novel”.  This presentation is in partial fulfillment of the PAL graduate certificate. Thomas Manganaro is a graduate student at Duke in the English department. The paper Thomas presented is available by request here.

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Philosophy and Music Today

 February 1st, 2013 – Philosophy and Music Today After postwar musical experimentations such as John Cage’s 4’33” and Pierre Boulez’s Marteau sans maître and more recent compositions explicitly drawing on philosophy such as Pascal Dusapin’s O Mensch (2011) what can philosophy say about music today? How can it define the musical experience? And what is…

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