English

Lecture by Benjamin Kohlmann on "Rethinking the 1930s: Literature, Politics, and the Communist Voice"

Date:

Monday, 22 April 2013 - 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Location:

The Boardroom, Stanford Humanities Center

Speaker:

Benjamin Kohlmann

Language:

English

Dr. Benjamin Kohlmann is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Freiburg.

This event is cosponsored by the History Department, the Stanford British History Lecture Series, the Stanford Humanities Center, the English Department, the Division of Literature, Cultures, and Languages, and the Europe Center.

Renaissance Pastoralisms

Subject Code:

ILAC

Course Number:

207E

Description:

Major works of Iberian pastoral lyric poetry and narrative fiction. What made this classical mode so popular during the Renaissance and beyond? What are its essential characteristics? What does it tell us about early modern theories of humanity's relation to nature? Was it merely a form of erotic escapism or is something darker and more troubling lurking between its lines? What can it teach us today about nature, eros, ethics, death, and love? Authors include: Theocritus; Virgil; Sannazaro; Garcilaso de la Vega; Montemayor; Ribeiro; Usque; Camões; and Cervantes. We'll also look at selected contemporary examples of the pastoral in film and the novel. Readings in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Discussion in English.

Instructor:

Vincent Barletta

Term:

Win

Academic Year:

2012-13

Units:

3-5

Day/Time:

F 2:15 - 5:05

Sarah A. Sadlier

Contact:

sadlier@stanford.edu

Curriculum Vitae:

Sadlier.cv.pdf

Professional Activities:

Exhibit displayed in the Smithsonian (2010)
Exhibit displayed in the Washington State History Museum (2011-2013)
Published 108-page paper in the Concord Review (Spring 2012)
Published “Prelude to the American Revolution? The War of Regulation: A Revolutionary Reaction for Reform” in The History Teacher (November, 2012)
Research Assistant for the Mapping Republic of Letters Project (January 2013-present)
Research Assistant for the Chinese Railroad Workers Project (February 2013-present)
National History Day Judge (2013)

Language(s):

English

Language(s):

Spanish

Document(s):

tcr_22_3_spr.pdf

08_n12_nhd_sadlier_senior.pdf

Website URL:

http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/view_rs.php?issue=994&cat=col

Website URL:

http://enrolled.charleswright.org/news/Enrolled/Sadlier-turns-Tarrier-green-into...

Website URL:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/humdesignlit/cgi-bin/19thcenturynetworks/contact-u...

Patrick Timothy McGuire

Contact:

pmcguire@stanford.edu

Language(s):

English

Language(s):

French

Language(s):

Russian

Language(s):

Chinese

Marie-Claude F. Rubin

Office Hours:

by appointment

Education:

2011: B.A. in Romance Languages (with honors), the University of Chicago.

Language(s):

English

Language(s):

French

Language(s):

Italian

Italian Film Classics - Winter Series

ITALIAN FILM CLASSICS

Monday Nights, 6—9pm

(Jan. 7—Mar. 11, 2013)

Pigott Hall (Building 260), Room 113

Lecture, screening and discussion with film scholar Sarah Carey, Ph.D.

Jan. 14 The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)

Jan. 28 La strada (Fellini)

Feb. 4 La dolce vita (Fellini)

Feb. 11 L’avventura (Antonioni)

Feb. 25 Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti)

Mar. 4 Divorce, Italian Style (Germi)

Mar. 11 The Conformist (Bertolucci)

Slideshow

Renaissances

Subject Code:

DLCL

Course Number:

223

Description:

The Renaissances Group brings together faculty members and students from over a dozen departments at Stanford to consider the present and future of early modern studies (provisionally framed as a period spanning the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries) within the humanities. Taking seriously the plural form of the group's name, we seek to explore the early modern period from the widest range of disciplinary, cultural, linguistic, and geographical perspectives possible.

Instructor:

Roland Greene

Focal Group(s):

Renaissances

Term:

Win

Term:

Spr

Academic Year:

2012-13

Units:

Performance

Subject Code:

DLCL

Course Number:

221

Description:

The Performance Group brings together diverse departments within the DLCL with other disciplines, such as Drama, to achieve a cross-pollination: to reinvigorate performance theory through our own consciously re-mediated research interests, methodologies, and forms of scholarly expression. Drawn to topics involving space, temporality, and embodiment, we still want to 'do things with words.'

Instructor:

Monika Greenleaf

Instructor:

Peggy Phelan

Focal Group(s):

Performance

Term:

Win

Term:

Spr

Academic Year:

2012-13

Units:

Humanities Education

Subject Code:

DLCL

Course Number:

220

Description:

Humanities Education explores issues concerning teaching and learning in the humanities, including research on student learning, innovation in pedagogy, the role of new technologies in humanities instruction, and professional issues for humanities teachers at all educational levels.

Instructor:

Russell Berman

Focal Group(s):

Humanities Education

Term:

Win

Term:

Spr

Academic Year:

2012-13

Units:

Short Stories from South Asia

Subject Code:

COMPLIT

Course Number:

242A

Description:

This course will explore how cultural identities of the nations in South Asia were re-defined after the Partition of India in 1947, the independence of Sri Lanka in 1948 and the formation of Bangladesh in 1971. Comparative/cross-cultural study of stories will be taken up for indepth analysis based on certain themes like partition and violence, myth and narrative, gender and narrative, music and narratology, familial patterns, etc.

Term:

Win

Academic Year:

2012-13

Units:

3-5

Day/Time:

M 3:15-5:05