Other Literature Events For 2008-2009:
The Literature Program's Beginning of the Year Celebration is on August 30, 2008 from 5:00pm-9:00pm.
(By invitation only)
Lectures 2008-2009:
Other Literature Events For 2007-2008:
Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony and Reception
May 11, 2008 at 12:00 noon
In the Richard White Auditorium, Richard White Building,
on East Campus
Parking is in front of the East Duke Building (next to Richard White Building)
(The Commencement Ceremony and Reception is for Literature only)
Lectures 2007-2008:
April 24, 2008
Lecture & Book Signing by well-known minimalist artist and writer
Robert Morris
"The Birthday Boy"
Book signing after his lecture!
April 24, 2008
4:00pm - Lecture
5:30pm - Book Signing
At the Nasher Museum of Art
Duke University
The Birthday Boy, the subject of this lecture by
Robert Morris, is a video installation about
Michelangelo's David that has been exhibited at the
Accademia in Florence, Italy, and the Louvre in Paris.
Robert Morris' book
"Have I Reasons: Work and Writings, 1993-2007",
edited by Nena Tsouti-Schillinger and published
by Duke University Press, can be purchased at the
Nasher Museum of Art during the book signing.
For more information, please contact Maria Maschauer at
mamascha@duke.edu or (919) 684-5255
March 22, 2008 from 10:00am-5:30pm
Free parking on the East Campus Quad on Campus Dr.
After the bus stop, look for the reserved parking sign.
"Vitalism Revisited: History, Philosophy, Biology"
Saturday - March 22, 2008
10:00am - 5:30pm
Auditorium, Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus
A symposium sponsored by
The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory
Duke University
Guest speakers:
Stefan Helmreich, MIT; author, Silicon Second Nature:
Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World (1998)
Joan Steigerwald, York U, Canada; author, "Instruments of Judgment:
Inscribing Organic Processes in Late 18th-Century Germany" (2002)
Susan Oyama, Emerita, CUNY; author, Evolution's Eye:
A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide (2000)
Participants from Duke University:
Robert Brandon, Philosophy and Biology; Güven Güzeldere, Philosophy
and Cognitive Neuroscience; Timothy Lenoir, History, Literature, and
New Technologies & Society; Daniel McShea, Biology and Philosophy;
Robert Mitchell, English; Thomas Pfau, English and German;
Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Literature and English
Co-sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute;
the English Department; and the Program in the History and
Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine
Schedule of Events:
10:00am
Welcome: Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Director, CISSCT
Opening Remarks: Robert Mitchell
10:15 - 11:30am: Session I
Stefan Helmreich, "Life Forms at Three Extremes”
Comment: Tim Lenoir
Open Discussion
11:45 - 1:00pm: Session II
Joan Steigerwald, “Figuring the Organism in late 18th Century Germany:
From Vital Forces to Instrumental Languages”
Comment: Robert Mitchell
Open Discussion
2:30 - 3:45pm: Session III
Susan Oyama, “Biologists Behaving Badly: Vitalism and the Language of Language”
Comment: Daniel McShea
Open Discussion
4:00 - 5:30pm: Session IV
Round Table
Moderator: Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Robert Brandon
Güven Güzeldere
Thomas Pfau
There will be coffee breaks between sessions and a reception following the symposium.
Friday, February 29, 2008 at 4:00pm
Free parking on the East Campus Quad on Campus Dr. from
3:00pm-8:30pm.
After the bus stop, look for the parking officer and the sign.
A mini-symposium entitled,
“Global Culture Industry and New Media”
In the Upper East Side, East Union Building on East Campus
Speakers are Celia Lury and Scott Lash, professors at Goldsmith College (University of London)
Scott Lash will talk about "China Culture Industry: In Search of the Universal"
Celia Lury will talk about " Thinking Topologically About Culture"
Before the lectures, come to an ISIS (Information Science + Information Studies) Lunchtime event
A Conversation about Global Culture Industry with Scott Lash and
Celia Lury
Friday, February 29
12:00-2:00pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Lunch will be provided
October 4, 2007 at 3:30pm
Jason Read, "The Production of Subjectivity: Towards a Political Anthropology of the Present"
In the Upper East Side, East Union Building on East Campus
Other Interesting Lectures:
In February
Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton Univeristy)
"Along Liquid Paths: A Genealogy of Piracy"
(A Romance Studies lecture)
Other Literature Events For 2007-2008:
Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony and Reception
May 11, 2008 at 12:00 noon
In the Richard White Auditorium, Richard White Building,
on East Campus
Parking is in front of the East Duke Building (next to Richard White Building)
(For Literature only)
Pizza Party!
October 17, 2007 from 5:00-6:30pm
In room 225, Science Building (Old Art Museum)
(All students who are interested in the Literature Program are invited.
Faculty, graduate students, and staff of the Literature Program are welcome and encouraged to attend.)
Literature's Beginning of the Year Celebration
Saturday, September 1, 2007
5:00-9:00pm
(By invitation only)
Lectures 2006-2007:
Diana Fuss, April 10, 2007 at 4:00 pm in the Upper East Side,
East Union Building. Title: "Last Words"
George Marcus, "The End(s) of Ethnography: Anthropology's Signature Form of Knowledge In Transition": March 2, 2007 at 5:00pm in the Upper East Side, East Union Building
This is a joint event with the Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Program in Literature
N. Katherine Hayles, "Intermediation: The Pursuit of a Vision": December 4, 2006 in the Upper East Side, East Union Building
Reception at 4:30pm, Talk at 5:00pm
Moira Fradinger, "Blood Ties: Fictions of Political Origins": October 3, 2006 at 3:00pm in the Upper East Side, East Union Building
Richard Moran, "Kant on Beauty and Necessity": October 2, 2006 at 11:40am in the Upper East Side, East Union Building
Other Literature Events For 2006-2007:
Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony and Reception: May 13, 2007 at 12:00 noon in the Richard White Auditorium, Richard White Building on East Campus.
Parking is in front of the East Duke Building (next to Richard White Building)
The Program in Literature's Prospective's Weekend: March 2-3, 2007.
The Third Annual Literature Majors and Prospective's Pizza Party: October 19, 2006 from 4:30pm - 6:30pm in Bell Tower Trailer 4
Job Market Meeting: September 14, 2006 from 12:00 noon - 2:00pm in Bell Tower Trailer 2
(For Literature only)
Beginning of the Year Celebration: September 1, 2006 from 5:00pm - 9:00pm at the Greystone Inn and Conference Center (By invitation only)
New Graduate Student Orientation: August 24, 2006 from 12:00 noon - 2:00pm in Bell Tower Trailer 2
(For Literature graduate students only)