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April 6, 2012

Young Scholars Workshop 2012

April 5th-6th, 2012 The 3rd Annual Young Scholars Workshop consisted of the public PAL event, “Philosophy, Literature and Film: Two Lectures by James Conant and Cora Diamond.” The following day there was a closed all-day workshop from 9am to 6pm, limited to 20 invited participants (from Duke and other universities, and including James Conant and…

April 5, 2012

Philosophy, Literature and Film: Two Lectures by James Conant and Cora Diamond

On April 5th, 2012 PAL hosted the symposium, “Philosophy, Literature and Film.” This event included two lectures by the distinguished philosophers Cora Diamond (University of Virginia, Charlottesville) and James Conant (University of Chicago). This event was also part of the 2012 Young Scholars Workshop. Cora Diamond – “Murdoch off the Map: or Taking Empiricism back…

February 23, 2012

Literature, Narrative and the Shape of a Life: A Lecture by Joshua Landy

On February 23rd, 2012 Professor Joshua Landy from Stanford will give a talk called Literature, Narrative and the Shape of a Life. Professor Landy is currently a Fellow of the National Humanities Center, and one of the convenors of the Literature and Philosophy major at Stanford.

January 20, 2012

Literature, Aesthetics, Politics: The Function of the Literary Magazine in the Current Moment

January 20th, 2012 Literature, Aesthetics, Politics: The Function of the Literary Magazine in the Current Moment Co-organized by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Center for Philosophy, Art, and Literature. Please join the FHI and PAL for a day-long event addressing the function of the literary magazine/literary journal at the current moment. Members of the…

January 10, 2012

Gradaute Certificate Courses – Spring 2012

GER 322-02 “Music in Literature & Philosophy, 1800-1947” – W 4:40-7:10pm Old Chem 119 Drawing on a variety of musical, literary, and discursive works, this seminar will explore how different conceptions of aesthetic form, as well as their socio-cultural function and metaphysical underpinnings. We will consider three paradigms of form: 1) organic form in Beethoven’s…

November 29, 2011

Alice Crary – W.G. Sebald and the Ethics of Narrative: A Reading of Austerlitz

On November 29th, 2011 Alice Crary, Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School, co-editor of The New Wittgenstein (2000), and author of Beyond Moral Judgment (2007) gave the lecture, “W.G. Sebald and the Ethics of Narrative: A Reading of Austerlitz.” This talk centered on a close reading of W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz. The talk was…

September 23, 2011

Simone de Beauvoir Today: A Symposium to Mark the 25th Anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir’s death

September 23rd, 2011 Co-sponsored by PAL and the Women’s Studies Program, Duke University Visiting Speakers: Emily Apter (French, New York University) Stella Sandford (Philosophy, Kingston University, UK) Ursula Tidd (French, University of Manchester, UK) Linda Zerilli (Political Science and the Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago) Duke Graduate Students: Amey Victoria Adkins (Divinity, Women’s…

September 22, 2011

Wittgenstein in France: A Seminar with Sandra Laugier

September 22nd, 2011 Wittgenstein in France: A Seminar with Sandra Laugier Pierre Hadot (1922-2010), professor of ancient philosophy at the Collège de France, published, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, some of the earliest work on Wittgenstein to appear in French. Hadot’s thought is intimately related to Wittgenstein’s. Wittgenstein specialists have for the most…

August 15, 2011

Graduate Certificate Courses – Fall 2011

MUS 317D – The Enemy of Music: re-reading Rousseau in twenty-first century Since the 1960s, scholarship has widely acknowledged the impact that Rousseau’s lifelong involvement with music had on his political and social thought, as well as his philosophy of language. Although preceded by other thinkers, Rousseau was the first to forcefully articulate a fundamental…

June 20, 2011

PAL’s 2010-2011 Annual Report

PAL’s 2010-2011 Annual Report is now available. View on ISSUU or Download here. See past reports here.