The Cogut Center for the Humanities
Integrating Research, Teaching,
Programs & Events
West-Eastern Divan Institute/Brown
in Berlin
Spring Break 2012
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"The Politics of the Event
and the Fragility of Things"
February 16, 2012
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street
5:30 - 7:00pm
2012-13 Mellon Graduate Workshops Applications Accepted
February 15 - March 15, 2012
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"Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism"
February 17, 2012
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street
9:30am - 5:30pm
Event Spotlight
February 16
"The Politics of the Event and the Fragility of Things"
Lecture
William Connolly, speaker
Pembroke Hall
February 17
"Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism"
Colloquium
Pembroke Hall
February 22
"Total Belief — Delirium in the West"
Lecture
Critical Dialogues in Arts and Humanities
Jacqueline Rose, speaker
Pembroke Hall
February 23
"Realism and Reality of Blood: City of God 10 Years Later"
Seminar
Fabio Akcelrud Durão, speaker
Pembroke Hall
February 23
"The Last Resistance: Piano Music of Mohammed Fairouz"
Live performance
Critical Dialogues in Arts and Humanities
Steven Spooner, pianist
Granoff Center
February 24
"Music, Writing, and Critique"
Panel discussion
Critical Dialogues in Arts and Humanities
Jacqueline Rose and Mohammed Fairouz, panelists
Pembroke Hall
February 28
"Revisiting Post-Islamism"
Colloquium
Asef Bayat, speaker
Watson Institute
February 28
Master Voice Class
with Wolfgang Holzmair
Grant Recital Hall
February 29
"Winterreise"
Live performance
Wolfgang Holzmair, baritone
Russell Ryan, pianist
Granoff Center
March 13
"Religion and the 'Nationalism' in Internationalism"
Colloquium
Abdullahi An-Na'im, speaker
Watson Institute
March 20
"The International Politics of Religious Freedom"
Colloquium
Elizabeth Hurd, speaker
Watson Institute
March 21
"The Arab Quest for Freedom and Dignity: Have Arab Thinkers Been Part of It?"
Lecture
Elizabeth Kassab, speaker
Pembroke Hall
April 5
"Reign of Terroir in the Humanities -- The Ideological Roots of Wine"
Lectures
Rachel Black and Edward Korry, speakers
Pembroke Hall
April 18
"From Sentiment to Cinema: Revisiting Eisenstein on Dickens and Griffith"
Sarah Cutts Frerichs
Lecture
James Chandler, speaker
Pembroke Hall
All events are free and open to the public.
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A Glimpse at the Past
We've had a busy few years. Take a look!
2008-09 Events History
2007-08 Events History
2006-07 Events History