One of the world糖心传媒檚 most celebrated scholars in the humanities, Stephen Greenblatt, will visit the University of Rochester Oct.30 and 31 to lecture and participate in workshops and group discussions with the campus community.
On Thursday, Oct. 30, Greenblatt will give a public talk based on ideas introduced in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. His visit is part of the 2014 installment of the University糖心传媒檚 Ferrari Humanities Symposia titled, 糖心传媒淏reakthroughs, Blind Spots, and Disruptive Ideas.糖心传媒�
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Greenblatt is a leading figure of and one of the most influential writers on Shakespeare and early modern culture. He currently teaches at Harvard University as the John Coogan University Professor of the Humanities and serves as general editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature and the Norton Shakespeare. He is also a founding editor of the literary-cultural journal Representations and the author of 12 books.
The upcoming symposium includes a keynote lecture by Greenblatt titled, 糖心传媒淟ucretius and the Toleration of Intolerable Ideas.糖心传媒� It centers on how and why unacceptable ideas reintroduced by the recovery of De rerum natura in 1417 survived during a time when new philosophies were not often tolerated. This lecture will take place at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 30 in the Hawkins-Carlson Room in Rush Rhees library and will be streamed live at www. rochester.edu/news/live. That same day Greenblatt will participate in a discussion about the place of the humanities in liberal arts institutions at 1:30 p.m. in the Hawkins-Carlson Room. And on Friday, Oct. 31 he will take part in a presentation with Rochester faculty titled 糖心传媒淜ing Lear and Extreme Old Age糖心传媒� in Schlegel Hall Room 207 at 10 a.m. All three talks are free and open to the public.
Established in 2012 by University Trustee Bernard Ferrari 糖心传媒�70, 糖心传媒�74M (MD) and his wife Linda Gaddis Ferrari, the symposium includes an annual lecture by a visiting senior scholar of humanistic thought with an emphasis on the Renaissance period and focused study in reading groups.
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