2011-2012 Lecture Series

Distinguished  Speakers Series
 2011-2012

Martha Nussbaum
University of chicago

“Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities”
7:00 pm • Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University

 A seminar for faculty and students will follow on September 21, 2011 in the Freed Orman Centre at  11:00 am.

Jason Brown
Dalhousie University

“A Hard Day’s Math: The Connections Between Mathematics and Music ”
7:00 pm • Thursday, November 10, 2011
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University

 A seminar for faculty and students (math and music) will follow on November, 11, 2011 at 10:00 am.

Domenico Pietropaolo
University of Toronto

“Performance text and the Impromptu tradition”
7:00 pm • Thursday, February 9, 2012
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University

 A seminar for faculty and students on “G.B. shaw and Science: In Good King Charles’s Golden Days between Newton and Einstein” will follow on February 10, 2012 at 10:00 am. 

Tracy Davis
Northwestern University

“How Historical is Spectatorship?: Knowledge, Expertise, Insight, and Taste among Racialized and Gendered Audiences in Mid-Victorian Britain”
7:00 pm • Thursday, March 15, 2012
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University

 A seminar for faculty and students (Drama) will follow on March 16, 2012 at 10:00 am.

Fr. James K. McConica, C.S.B.
Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies

“What are Universities for?”
7:00 pm • Thursday, March 22, 2012
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University 

A seminar for faculty and students will follow on March 23, 2012 at 10:00 am.

 Martin Wesley Lecture Series

Jean-Pierre de Villers
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
“ON ne respire plus, il faut jeter une bombe!”
3:30 pm • Wednesday,  October 19, 2011
Freed Orman Centre

 Michael Darroch
Dept. of Communication, Media & Film,

“Anonymous History and Acoustic Space: Giedion and the Shape of Canadian Media Studies”
3:30 pm • Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Freed Orman Centre.

 Christopher Tindale
Department of Philosophy

“Rhetoric’s Presence”
3:30 pm • Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Freed Orman Centre

 Robert Nelson
Department of History

 “Inner colonization and race, Germany, canada, and Globally transferrable concepts from the 1880s to the 1940s”
4:00 pm •Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Freed Orman Centre