- Title: Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Desperately Seeking Questions'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 10/03/2004 - 10/03/2004
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Nicola Kiver
734 936 3518
- Description: William Paulson, Romance Languages
Rethinking the Humanities Series
- Detailed Information: Many commentators on the humanities (including myself), sensing a risk of sterilizing isolation, have articulated a need for outreach — to other disciplines, to K-12 education, perhaps above all to a nonacademic public. But academic fields thrive or stagnate above all according to the dynamism and interest of their research, and I’ll argue that the humanities are above all in need of new questions and paradigms. Fortunately, our ignorance is great, and I’ll try to propose some new questions, focused on culture’s relations to passing time and to the material world, that might contribute to rethinking the humanities series.
