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Arts & Sciences
Faculty from the arts, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences,
engineering and the professional schools now are meeting to talk about
how best to strengthen the humanities over the next two and a half
years. The discussions were launched with a six-hour retreat at the
Humanities Center in December to plan for the upcoming symposia.
Currently, the schedule for the symposia is as follows:
March 2: Christo and his partner, Jeanne-Claude. Best known for
his monumental wrapping, tying and covering projects, the artist has
wrapped a stretch of coastline in Sydney, stretched an orange Valley
Curtain across a canyon in Rifle, Colo. and erected a 24-mile
Running Fence in Northern California.
March 9: Peter Eisenman. An architect and professor of
architecture at Cooper Union in New York City, Eisenman is considered an
innovator in large-scale housing and urban design projects and has been
honored for his social housing project at Checkpoint Charlie at the
former Berlin Wall.
March 16: Hélène Cixous. An internationally
respected feminist philosopher, theorist and playwright who is at the
center of contemporary French thought, Cixous is the author of more than
40 volumes of literary criticism and theory, essays, novels, short
fiction and plays.
May 18: Harold Bloom. The De Vane Professor of the Humanities at
Yale University, Bloom is considered a leading critic of English and
American literature. His A Map of Misreading applies critical
techniques to close readings of poems by major poets from Milton and
Wordsworth to Ammons and Ashbery, and Omens of Millennium
examines such New Age issues as angels, prophetic dreams and
near-death experiences. ST
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