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Events for Lectures & Symposia - 2005
The Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture - 'History and Narrative'
2/2/2005; 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Fredric Jameson, Visiting Jacobson Fellow, Institute for the Humanities

The Marc and Constance Jacobson Discussion - 'History and Narrative'
2/3/2005; 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Fredric Jameson, with respondents Andreas Schonle, Marjorie Levinson and Geoff Eley. A reception will follow the discussion.

Human Rights Lecture - 'Human Rights: The Challenge of Cultural Relativism'
2/10/2005; 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Javed Nazir, Human Rights Fellow

Thursday Lecture - 'A Conversation with Adam Zagajewski'
2/17/2005; 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Adam Zagajewski

Conference - Ruins of Modernity
3/17/2005 - 3/19/2005; 9:00 AM - 10:00 PM

An international conference at the University of Michigan, March 17-19, 2005

Film Screening - Detroit: Ruin of a City (2005)
3/18/2005; 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

A film by Michael Chanan and George Steinmetz, music by Michael Nyman

Film Screening - Detroit: Ruin of a City (2005)
3/25/2005; 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

SOLD OUT

Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture - Helen Vendler - 'The Yeatsian Sequence: Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'
4/6/2005; 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Helen Vendler, Visiting Harris Fellow, Institute for the Humanities and A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University

Panel Discussion with Neil Bartlett
9/27/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Panel Discussion with Neil Bartlett
“Past, Present, Performance: Queer History and Contemporary Theatre”

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The Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture "New Orleans: An American Pompeii"
9/29/2005; 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Lawrence N. Powell, Professor of  History, Tulane University

Discussants
Kevin K. Gaines, Professor of History Director and Professor Center for Afroamerican and African Studies

Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture and Women’s Studies

Lecture - 'Thucydides, Nietzsche and Williams'
10/7/2005; 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Raymond Geuss, Philosophy, University of Cambridge

Film Series - 'Psychosis at the Cinema: The Snake Pit'
10/11/2005; 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

October 11, The Snake Pit (1948)
Directed by Anatole Litvak. Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens

Film Series - 'Psychosis at the Cinema: Shock Corridor'
10/25/2005; 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

October 25, Shock Corridor (1963)
Directed by Samuel Fuller. Starring Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, and Neyle Morrow as Psycho

Film Series - 'Psychosis at the Cinema: 'A Beautiful Mind'
11/15/2005; 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

November 15, A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Directed by Ron Howard.