Promotional poster for a past Lectures in Criticism events. The speakers are Ruben Gallo from Princeton University giving a talk titled “Sigmund Freud and Octavio Paz: Orientalism and Eroticism” on September 26, 2013 at 5pm in PHO 906, 8 St. Mary's Street; Sanjay Krishnan from Boston University giving a talk titled “Merit in the Anglophone Novel: Anand, Achebe, Naipaul” on October 17, 2013at 5pm in PHO 906, 8 St. Mary's Street; Joan Copjec from Brown University giving a talk titled “Women in Traffic: Piety Movements and Kiarostami's Ten” on February 6, 2014 at 5pm in CAS 200, 725 Commonwealth Avenue; Hillary Chute from the University of Chicago giving a talk titled “Comics as Documentary: Words, Images, and War” on February 27, 2014 at 5pm in PHO 906, 8 St. Mary's Street; D. A. Miller from UC Berkeley giving the Humanities Lecture titled “The Long Wrong Man” on April 3, 2014 at 5pm in PHO 906, 8 St. Mary's Street and the Humanities Seminar on April 4, 2014 at 2pm in CAS 132, 725 Commonwealth Avenue. The events are sponsored by the BU Humanities Foundation and the Departments of English, Romance Studies, and Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures. The events are free and open to the public.

Fall 2013

Sigmund Freud and Octavio Paz: Orientalism and Eroticism

Ruben Gallo, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor in Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain, Princeton University

September 26, 2013

Lecture at 5pm.

PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street

Merit in the Anglophone Novel: Anand, Achebe, Naipaul

Sanjay Krishnan, Associate Professor of English, Boston University

October 17, 2013

Lecture at 5pm.

PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street

Spring 2014

Women in Traffic: Piety Movements and Kiarostami’s Ten

Joan Copjec, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

February 6, 2014

Lecture at 5pm

CAS 200, 725 Commonwealth Avenue

Comics as Documentary: Words, Images, and War

Hillary Chute, Associate Professor of English and Visual Arts, University of Chicago

February 27, 2014

Lecture at 5pm

PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street

Humanities Lecture

The Long Wrong Man

D. A. Miller, John F. Hotchkis Chair in English, UC Berkeley

April 3, 2014

Lecture at 5pm

PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street

Humanities Seminar

April 4, 2014, 2pm

CAS 132, 725 Commonwealth Avenue