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In this and all future newsletters, only seminars that are meeting

during that month will be listed in the main text of the newsletter.

A complete list of seminars can be found on page 3.

AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTUREChair: John StaufferSusan Manning (University of Edinburgh).“American Romanticism and Transatlantic Relations”

Monday, March 17, 6:00 p.m., Room 110.

THE AMERICASChair: Doris SommerJuan Carlos Godenzzi (University ofMontreal). “Language and Symbolism in the Andes”

Tuesday, March 18, 6:00 p.m., Room 133.

ASIAN CULTURAL STUDIES WORKSHOPChairs: Daniel Botsman, Eileen Cheng-yin ChowTim Weston (University of Colorado,Boulder). Topic to be announced.

Thursday, March 13, 4:00 p.m.,Harvard-Yenching Common Room.

BIOGRAPHYChair: Helena LewisSusan Pedersen (Harvard University).“The Feminist as Biographical Subject: Reflections in

the Midst of Writing”

Wednesday, March 19, 6:00 p.m., Room 133.

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUMChair: Robert GimelloGriffith Foulk (Sarah Lawrence College).“No Such Thing As Zen”

Monday, March 3, 4:15 p.m., Room 133.

Dorothy Wong (University of Virginia).“Celestial Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in Sixth-Century

Chinese Buddhist Art”

Monday, March 17, 4:15 p.m., Room 133.

Ronald Davidson (Fairfield University).“The Kingly Cosmology and Tibetan Histories: Indian Origins,

Tibetan Space, and the bKa’ ‘chems ka khol ma Synthesis”

Monday, March 31, 4:15 p.m., Room 133.

CELTIC LITERATURE AND CULTUREChairs: Patrick K. Ford, Tomás Ó CathasaighCatherine McKenna (City University ofNew York). “Secrets of the Confessional: Beirdd y

Tywysogion, Private Penance, and Meditative Poetry in

Thirteenth Century Wales”

Friday, March 14, 4:30 p.m., Barker 024.Reception to follow.

Philip T. O’Leary (Boston College).“Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State: An Overview”

Friday, March 21, 4:30 p.m., Room 133.Reception to follow.

CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENTGREECE AND ROMEChairs: Albert Henrichs, Richard F. ThomasRichard Martin (Stanford University).“Pulp Epic: The Hesiodic Catalogue and the Shield”

Tuesday, March 11, 6:00 p.m., Room 114.

Harvey Yunis (Rice University). “Eros in

Plato’s Phaedrus and the Shape of Greek Rhetoric”

Thursday, March 13, 4:00 p.m.,Location to be announced.

Albio Cassio (Università La Sapienza).Topic to be announced.

Friday, March 14, 4:00 p.m., Location to be announced.

John Henderson (Kings College).“Plautus’ Asinaria: asses, asses, asses, and more asses”

Thursday, March 20, 4:00 p.m., Room 105, Boylston Hall.

COGNITIVE THEORYAND THE ARTSChairs: Alan Richardson, Elaine ScarryMahzarin Banaji (Harvard University).“Ordinary Prejudice”

Wednesday, March 5, 7:00 p.m., Room 133.

CROSS-CULTURAL POETICS AND RHETORICChairs: Tom Conley, William GranaraRichard van Leeuwen (University ofAmsterdam). “The Poetics of Space in the ‘Thousand

and One Nights’”

Co-sponsored with the Department of NearEastern Languages and Civilizations.Monday, March 10, 4:30 p.m., Room 133.

ECOLOGY/TECHNOLOGY/CYBERNETICSChair: Verena ConleyCeline Larkin (American Institute ofArchitects) and Lily Ling (New SchoolUniversity). “The Monster within: What Fu Manchu

and Hannibal Lecter Can Tell Us about Terror and

Desire in a Post-9/11 World”

Friday, March 7, 2:00 p.m., Room 133.Reception to follow.

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DIRECTORMarjorie Garber

ADMINISTRATORMary Halpenny-Killip

OFFICE MANAGERShannon Greaney

EVENTS COORDINATORMary Elizabeth Wilkes

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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURYLITERATURE AND CULTUREChairs: Lynn Festa, Susan StavesAlexis Tadié (Université de Paris VII).“Sterne and the Changing Perceptions of Language”

Thursday, March 13, 8:00 p.m., Room 133.

FEMINIST THEORY AND CULTUREChairs: Janet Halley, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Mari RutiToril Moi (Duke University). “From Femininity

to Finitude: Lacan and Feminism, Again”

Tuesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m., Room 133.

FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIESChairs: Alexia Duc, Virginie Greene,Christie McDonaldMichael Sheringham (Royal Holloway,University of London). “Re-thinking the Everyday:

Figure, Theory, and Practice in Recent French Culture”

Co-sponsored with Politics, Literature, and the Arts.Tuesday, March 17, 6:00 p.m., Room 114.

HISPANIC CULTURESChairs: Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Brad EppsElvira Vilches (University of South Carolina).“Valor y género en la España de los Austrias”

Friday, March 14, 5:00 p.m., Room 114.

HISTORY OF THE BOOKChairs: David D. Hall, Ann BlairKlaus Weimar (University of Zurich). “Books that Aren’t Books” with comments by PeterStallybrass (University of Pennsylvania). Co-sponsored with the Department ofGermanic Languages and Literatures.Thursday, March 20, 5:15 p.m., Room 133.

LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIESChairs: Brad Epps, Heather LoveCynthia Patton (Simon Fraser University).“Outlaw Territories: The Edward Savitz Case and Moral

Panic Theory”

Tuesday, March 4, 5:00 p.m., Room 133.

MEDIEVAL STUDIESChairs: Beverly Kienzle, Eckehard SimonRichard Emmerson (Medieval Academy of America). “Translating Images: The Decorated

Page in French, English, and Latin Versions of Guillaume

de Deguileville’s ‘Trois Pelerinages’”

Wednesday, March 19, 4:15 p.m., Room 133.

MODERN GREEK LITERATURE AND CULTUREChair: Panagiotis RoilosElizabeth Jeffreys (University of Oxford).“Digenis Reconsidered”

Monday, March 17, 6:00 p.m., Room 133.

MODERNISM AND ITS CONTEXTSChairs: Yunte Huang, Oren IzenbergJennifer Ashton (University of Illinois,Chicago). “Modernism’s New Literalism: Perloff,

Hejinian, Bernstein, and Fried”

Wednesday, March 5, 5:00 p.m., Room 133.Reception to follow.

MUSIC AND ITS AUDIENCEChairs: Sean Gallagher, Karen Painter,Christoph WolffRichard Dyer (Boston Globe). “Music Criticism in Context”

Thursday, March 13, 5:00 p.m., Davison Room,Music Building. Reception to follow.

PHILOSOPHY, POETRY, AND RELIGIONChairs: Martin Cohen, Peter SacksLivia Kohn (Boston University).“Justifying Moral Action in Medieval Daoism”

Wednesday, March 5, 6:30 p.m., Room 114.

POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTSChairs: Svetlana Boym, Susan SuleimanMichael Sheringham (Royal Holloway,University of London). “Re-thinking the Everyday:

Figure, Theory, and Practice in Recent French Culture”

Co-sponsored with French and Francophone Studies.Monday, March 17, 6:00 p.m., Room 114.

POST-COLONIAL STUDIESChairs: David Kennedy, Kalpana Seshadri-CrooksModhumita Roy (Tufts University).“Edward Said’s Orientalism and After” Co-sponsoredwith the European Law Research Center.Thursday, March 20, 7:00 p.m., Room 133.

PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICESChairs: Humphrey Morris, Frances RestucciaDiane O’Donoghue (Tufts University).“Negotiations of Surface: Archaeology in the Early Strata

of Psychoanalysis”

Monday, March 3, 7:30 p.m., Room 133.

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ABOUT THE HUMANITIES CENTER

THE HUMANITIES CENTER

provides a locus for

interdisciplinary discussions

among Harvard faculty, faculty from

other area institutions, and graduate

students in a variety of fields. It

presently sponsors thirty-eight

ongoing faculty/graduate student

seminars; it also supports lectures,

conferences, workshops, and

informal occasions for the exchange

of ideas and the sharing of scholarly

work.All faculty and students from

Harvard and other area institutions,

and independent scholars in the

greater Boston area, are welcome.

E X E C U T I V E C O M M I T T E E

Homi Bhabha Joaquim-Francisco Coelho Tom Conley Patrick K. Ford Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Alice JardineBarbara Johnson Gregory NagyStephen OwenKatharine Park Eric Rentschler Judith RyanKay Kaufman ShelemaySusan Suleiman Maria TatarJan Ziolkowski

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ROMANTIC LITERATURE AND CULTUREChairs: Sonia Hofkosh, Ann Wierda RowlandNeil Fraistat (University of Maryland) andSteven Jones (Loyola University). “Romanticism

and Critical Gaming: The MOOzymandias Project”

Wednesday, March 19, 8:00 p.m. Room 133

SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIESChairs: William Carroll, Coppélia KahnCaroline Bicks (Boston College).“The Mind of a Married Woman: ‘Quick Conceite’ and

Paternal Resemblance in All’s Well that Ends Well”

Friday, March 7, 6:00 p.m., Room 133.Reception at 5:30.

SOUTH ASIA HUMANITIES SEMINARChair: Sharmila SenDavid Dabydeen (University of Warwick).“Lutchmee and Dilloo: The First Fictional Account of

Indo-Guyanese Life in the Nineteenth-Century”

Friday, March 14, 4:00 p.m., Room 133.

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTUREChairs: James Buzard, John PickerJohn Plotz (Brandeis University).“What’s Wessex? Hardy’s Boundary Problems”

Tuesday, March 11, 6:00 p.m., Room 133.

VISUAL REPRESENTATION AND CULTURAL HISTORYChair: Ewa Lajer-BurcharthRobin Kelsey (Harvard University).“Accident as a Source of Photographic Meaning”

Wednesday, March 12, 5:00 p.m., Room 133.Reception to follow.

WOMEN AND CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEChairs: Diana Henderson, Marina LeslieLisa Rosenthal (University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign). “Venus’s Milk and the

Temptation of Allegory in Otto van Veen’s ‘Allegory

of Temptation,’ Antwerp, c. 1595”

Thursday, March 6, 5:30 p.m., Room 133.

OTHER HUMANITIES EVENTS

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Please note that parking is not available free-of-charge for these events.

RADCLIFFE FELLOWSPRESENTATION SERIES

SPRING 2003

Mark Robbins ‘Households,’ ExhibitionOpening and Reception*Monday, March 3, 5:00-7:00 p.m.,Baker Room,Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard.

Nancy Bauer “Cognito Ergo Film”

Wednesday, March 5

Toril Moi “Emperor and Galilean: Isben’s

Neglected Masterpiece”

Wednesday, March 12

John Jost “System Justifying Effects of Complementary

Gender and Status Stereotypes”

Wednesday, March 19

Laura Schwendinger “One Composer’s Voice:

Music by Laura Schwendinger”

Monday, March 31

All presentations are held at 4:00 p.m. at the Cronkhite Graduate Center, 6 Ash Street(unless otherwise noted *).

WOMEN’S STUDIES IN RELIGION PROGRAM

SPRING LECTURE SERIES

Kelly Pemberton (visiting lecturer). “Reading Gender in Mystical Islam: Women, Piety, and

Sainthood Contextualized”

Thursday, March 13, 5:15 p.m.,Sperry Room,Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School.

JAPAN FORUM/EVENTS

SPRING 2003

Anne Allison “Japanese Monsters in the Era of

Pokemon Capitalism” Co-sponsored with theProgram in U.S.-Japan Relations.Tuesday, March 4, 12:30 p.m.,Room 228, 1033 Massachusetts Avenue

Aileen Gatten “Documents as Narrative: Letters

of an Eleventh-Century Japanese Noblewoman”

Friday, March 7, 4:00 p.m., Lower Library, Robinson Hall.

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HUMANITIES CENTERSEMINARS, 2002-2003

American Literature and Culture

The Americas

Anthropology and Cultural Studies

Asian Cultural Studies

Biography

Buddhist Studies Forum

Celtic Literature and Culture

China Humanities Seminar

Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome

Cognitive Theory and the Arts

Cross-Cultural Poetics and Rhetoric

Ecology/Technology/Cybernetics

Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Environmental Values

Ethnomusicology

Feminist Theory and Culture

Film Theory/Film History

French and Francophone Studies

Hispanic Cultures

History of the Book

Italian Studies

Jacques Lacan Workshop

Lesbian and Gay Studies

Medieval Studies

Modern Greek Literature

Modernism and Its Contexts

Music and Its Audience

Philosophy, Poetry, and Religion

Politics, Literature, and the Arts

Post-Colonial Studies

Psychoanalytic Practices

Renaissance Studies

Romantic Literature and Culture

Shakespearean Studies

South Asia Humanities

Victorian Literature and Culture

Visual Representation and Cultural History

Women and Culture in Early Modern Europe

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The Humanities CenterSidney Brown ”Tokyo as the Eastern Jazz Capital”

Co-sponsored with the Program in U.S.-Japan Relations.Friday, March 14, 4:00 p.m., Lower Library, Robinson Hall

Alisa Freedman “Daily Commutes and Evening

Dates: Images of Modern Middle Class Tokyo, 1925-

1935” Co-sponsored with the Program inU.S.-Japan RelationsWednesday, March 19, 4:00 p.m.,Lower Library, Robinson Hall.

Lawrence Marceau “Genji Does Edo: Reception

(and Perversion) of Genji monogatari in Early

Modern Japan”

Friday, March 21, 4:00 p.m., Lower Library, Robinson Hall.

MUSIC DEPARTMENT EVENTSCONCERTFromm Players at Harvard featuring BostonModern Orchestra Project with music by theCharles Eliot Norton Professors and MarioDavidovskyFriday, March 21, 8:00 p.m.,John Knowles Paine Concert Hall.

Free and open to the public, but passes arerequired. Free passes available March 7th atthe Harvard Box Office, Holyoke CenterArcade, Harvard Square. Hours: seven days aweek, noon to 6 p.m. 617-496-2222/TTY:617-495-1642.

LECTURESusan Youens (University of Notre Dame).“Heine and the Lied: The History of a Long

Misunderstanding”

Monday, March 17, 4:15 p.m.,Davison Room, Music Building.

CARPENTER CENTER LECTURESCarolee Schneemann (performance artist).“Disruptive Consciousness”

Thursday, March 6, 6:00 p.m.,Carpenter Center Lecture Hall.

THE HUMANITIES CENTER PRESENTSThe Erasmus Lecture Series, spring 2003

PHILOLOGISTS AND FATHERLANDProfessor Joep Leerssen (University ofAmsterdam), Erasmus Lecturer on theHistory and Civilization of the Netherlandsand Flanders.

LECTURE 1“Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Jacob Grimm and the Low

Countries: Retrieving the Nation’s Literary Heritage”

Tuesday, March 18, 7:00 p.m.,Room 110, Barker Center, Reception to follow.

(Lecture 2, April 8, “Henric van Veldeke / Heinrich

von Veldeken: A Contested Figurehead; Lecture 3,April 15, “Historical Novel, National Past: Romantic

Visions and Identities in Holland, Flanders, and Belgium”)

APRIL CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTSponsored by the Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Initiatives for Graduate Students

ALPHABETICSLetters are ubiquitous, multifunctional, andlargely ignored. Alphabetics, an interdisciplinarygraduate student conference, aims to exposeparticipants from various fields and thegeneral academic community to the wide rangeof uses and interpretations – literary, political,mystical, artistic, linguistic, etc. – for whichalphabets and their component letters havebeen marshaled. Hosted by the HarvardHumanities Center, the conference will takeplace on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27 in the Barker Center’s Thompson Room.

Special conference events include an exhibitionat the Houghton Library, running March 16through April 30, 2003. It features books and manuscripts with unusual applications ofletters, and documents keyed to the conferencepresentations. Renowned lutenist Olav ChrisHenriksen will perform and discuss Baroquealphabetic music on Saturday, April 26. Formore details, contact Erika Boeckeler andDaniel Kokin at alphabet@fas.harvard.edu.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

of the Humanities Centerincludes listings of seminars

and other events sponsored by theHumanities Center. All are open tofaculty, graduate students, and otherinterested individuals. Seminar meetingstake place at the Humanities Centerunless otherwise indicated.

In many seminars, copies of thepapers are circulated to participants in advance of the meeting.They can beobtained by sending in a paper requestform to the office or by calling theHumanities Center at 617-495-0738.Please call this number also forinformation about upcoming eventsincluding any cancellations or changes.In order to receive pre-circulatedpapers, please see the instructions on the paper request form.Humanities Center email address ishumcentr@fas.harvard.edu.Humanities Center webpagehttp://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr

DIRECTIONSThe Barker Center is bordered byPrescott, Harvard, and Quincy Streets.Enter the courtyard from QuincyStreet, opposite the Lamont Gate.TheBarker Center is the large brick buildingfacing the Faculty Club.

The Humanities Center administrativeoffices are located on the first floor inrooms 136 and 135.

To locate Humanities Center seminarevents, please consult the postings in theBarker Center main lobby.

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PARKINGParking is available at no charge forHumanities Center seminars only, on aspace available basis, at the BroadwayGarage, located on Felton St. betweenCambridge St. and Broadway.The garagecloses at midnight All parkers shouldidentify themselves as participants in aseminar at the Humanities Center (theguard’s list of events does not includethe names of individual seminars) andshould arrive close to the time that theseminar begins. If the garage is full,which is more likely prior to 4:00 p.m.,ask the attendant to direct you toanother Harvard parking facility. Pleasecontact the Humanities Center forinformation on parking for conferencesand weekend events.

CHANGES IN ADDRESS AND ZIP CODEIf your address or zip code has changed,please contact us at 617-495-0738 orvia email at humcentr@fas.harvard.edu.

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INFORMATIONMARCH 20 AND 21, 2003HARVARD UNIVERSITYBARKER CENTERDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISHCAMBRIDGE, MA 02138

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

KEYNOTE SPEAKEREDUARDO CADAVAPRINCETON UNIVERSITY“PALM READING: FAZAL SHEIKH’S HANDBOOK OF DEATH”

FOR MORE INFORMATIONBIRMINGH@FAS.HARVARD.EDURUTKOSKI@FAS.HARVARD.EDU

POSSIBLE PANELSHUMAN TRACESINTERIOR SETTINGSCOMPOSITIONMEMENTO MORIFROZEN MOMENTSTABLEAUX VIVANTSEKPHRASIS

SPONSORED BYTHE HUMANITIES CENTERDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

AND AMERICAN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE

WALTER HUGHES MEMORIAL FUNDTHEODORE SPENCER MEMORIAL FUND

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

STILL LIFE:AN INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Sponsored by the English Department and the Humanities Center

THURSDAY, MARCH 20 AND FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2003, 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

THOMPSON ROOM, BARKER CENTER

For more information please call (617) 495-0728.

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ABOUT THE HUMANITIES CENTER

THE HUMANITIES CENTER

provides a locus for

interdisciplinary discussions

among Harvard faculty, faculty from

other area institutions, and graduate

students in a variety of fields. It

presently sponsors thirty-eight

ongoing faculty/graduate student

seminars; it also supports lectures,

conferences, workshops, and

informal occasions for the exchange

of ideas and the sharing of scholarly

work.All faculty and students from

Harvard and other area institutions,

and independent scholars in the

greater Boston area, are welcome.

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MARCH 2003There are no pre-circulatedpapers in the month of March.

If you would like to receive papersand have not yet paid your annualfee, please enclose a check payableto Harvard University for $25($15 for graduate students). This fee entitles you to receive up to 3 papers per monththroughout the academic year and is tax deductible. If you arepaying the $15 fee you mustenclose a photocopy of yourstudent identification card. Papers may also be obtainedindividually for $5. Papers can be requested over the phone (617-495-0738), option number 2.Please note that papers can only besent to those who plan to attendthe seminar.

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HUMANITIES CENTER IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

The Consortium of Humanities Centersand InstitutesAnnual MeetingMarch 13 – 15, 2003Welcoming Reception and Pre-Note Address,Thursday, March 13, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Friday and Saturday sessions, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Lectures and panels open to the public, pre-registration required, seating limited.$10 (students $5)

Thompson Room, Barker Center,12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, and the Office of the Provost, Harvard University.

For schedule and registration materials, please write to mbwilkes@fas.harvard.edu or go to our website: www.chcinetwork.org.

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