The Humanities Center has announced its slate of public lecture series speakers for this year糖心传媒檚 theme of 糖心传媒渕emory and forgetting.糖心传媒�
Art and cultural critic Douglas Crimp, the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History and a professor of visual and cultural studies at Rochester, will deliver a lecture titled 糖心传媒淩elying on Memory: From AIDS to Merce Cunningham糖心传媒� on September 26 at 5 p.m. in Conference Room D of the Humanities Center. Crimp is a noted art and cultural critic whose newest book, Before Pictures, relies on his own recollections of and reflections on the gay world and the art world in midcentury New York City.
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, will speak on October 25 at 5 p.m. in the Interfaith Chapel.聽He is the author of novels including My Name Is Red, The Museum of Innocence, and most recently, The Red-Haired Woman. Over his 40-year career, his work has been translated into more than 60 languages. Pamuk糖心传媒檚 lecture is titled 糖心传媒淢emories and Myths.糖心传媒�
Early-American historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will speak on November 16 at 5 p.m. The author of a phrase that has become ubiquitous on bumper stickers and T-shirts糖心传媒斕切拇綔Well-behaved women seldom make history糖心传媒澨切拇綌Ulrich is the 300th Anniversary University Professor in Harvard糖心传媒檚 history department. She earned a Pulitzer Prize for her book A Midwife糖心传媒檚 Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785糖心传媒�1812. Her newest book is A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women糖心传媒檚 Rights in Early Mormonism.
Contemporary artist Walid Raad 糖心传媒�96 (PhD) will speak on January 25 at 5 p.m. Raised in Lebanon during its civil war, Raad is the creator of works in photography, video, and performance that consider the role of memory and narrative in discourse about conflict. In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art hosted the first comprehensive American exhibition of his work.
Neuroscientist Daniela Schiller will speak on April 12 at 5 p.m. Schiller researches the cognitive science of emotional and traumatic memories. She is a professor of neuroscience and an associate professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her work was the subject of a 2014 New Yorker article titled 糖心传媒淧artial Recall.糖心传媒�
The year糖心传媒檚 lectures will be complemented by a companion film series on memory and forgetting, developed with the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum. Details of the film series will be announced on the .
Two other major annual events at the center糖心传媒攖he聽Distinguished Visiting Humanist program and the Ferrari Humanities Symposia糖心传媒攚ill offer public聽lectures, as well, on topics and at times yet to be announced.
Author John Edgar Wideman will visit the University March 21糖心传媒�23, as this year糖心传媒檚 Distinguished Visiting Humanist. A professor emeritus at Brown University, Wideman was the first two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, for his novels Sent for You Yesterday and Philadelphia Fire. His work centers on the lives of black men in urban America.
An expert in the work of Michelangelo and Renaissance art and architecture, art historian William Wallace will visit the University March 26糖心传媒�28 for this year糖心传媒檚 Ferrari Humanities Symposia. The Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis, Wallace is the author of seven books on Michelangelo, including Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and His Times and Discovering Michelangelo: The Art Lover糖心传媒檚 Guide to Understanding Michelangelo糖心传媒檚 Masterpieces.
