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April 8, 2011

Writing is Thinking: Writing as a Way of Life in the Academy Part II

2nd Annual Young Scholars Workshop 2011 Writing is Thinking: Writing as a Way of Life in the Academy This 2-part writing event and workshop was sponsored by the Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature (PAL), The Thompson Writing Program and the Graduate School at Duke University. The 2nd Annual PAL Young Scholars Workshop was designed…

February 22, 2011

PAL Forum – And the Ship Sails On (1983)

February 22nd, 2011 Screening of Federico Fellini’s And the Ship Sails On (1983) with an introduction by Toril Moi and a discussion after.

January 28, 2011

Writing is Thinking: Writing as a Way of Life in the Academy Part I

January 25, 2011

The Turn To Affect: A Critique

On January 25, 2011 The Turn To Affect: A Critique Ruth Leys, Henry Wiesenfeld Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, gave the lecture, THE TURN TO AFFECT: A CRITIQUE. Presented by Expression/Performance/Behavior, the 2010-11 Franklin Humanities Institute Annual Seminar & the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature. Ruth Leys is Henry Wiesenfeld Professor of Humanities…

January 10, 2011

Graduate Certificate Courses – Spring 2011

PHIL 331S – Seminar Philosophy and Literature (Flanagan) Tu 1:30-4:00PM West Duke 204 Disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are defined and distinguished not by necessary and sufficient conditions that define what the discipline is or is about, but rather by family resemblances in subject matter and among certain kinds or modes of speaking,…

November 16, 2010

MORAL UNDERSTANDING AND ANIMAL SENTIENCE IN LITERATURE AND FILM

On November 16, 2010 PAL co-sponsored a symposium, MORAL UNDERSTANDING AND ANIMAL SENTIENCE IN LITERATURE AND FILM, Expression/Performance/Behavior, the 2010-11 Franklin Humanities Institute Annual Seminar with the Center for Philosophy, Arts, & Literature (PAL). Lecturers included Professor Sharon Cameron (Johns Hopkins) and Professor Raimond Gaita (King’s College, London).

October 19, 2010

PAL Forum – Au hasard Balthasar (1966)

October 19th, 2010 Screened Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthasar (1966) with an introduction by Toril Moi and a discussion after.

September 10, 2010

BEYOND CRITIQUE: READING AFTER THE HERMENEUTICS OF SUSPICION

On September 10, 2010 PAL hosted the symposium, BEYOND CRITIQUE: READING AFTER THE HERMENEUTICS OF SUSPICION, which included Rita Felski (English, University of Virginia Charlottesville), Sharon Marcus (English, Columbia), Stephen Best (English, Berkeley), Katherine Hayles (Literature and English, Duke). Respondent: Toril Moi (Literature, Duke).

August 15, 2010

Graduate Certificate Courses – Fall 2010

LIT 281S.01 /FR 366S.01 / WST 210S.01 – Simone de Beauvoir: Literature, Philosophy, Feminism The course will discuss Simone de Beauvoir as feminist theorist and French intellectual, focusing on two major topics: (1) the relationship between literature and philosophy in Beauvoir’s works, and in existentialism in general, and (2) Beauvoir’s understanding of women’s oppression, sex,…

June 20, 2010

PAL’s 2009-2010 Annual Report

PAL’s 2009-2010 Annual Report is now available. View on ISSUU or Download the PDF. See more recent reports here.