Promotional poster for past Lectures in Criticism (2015-2016). The lectures were: Fall 2015, “Criticism Without Justice” by Claudio Lomnitz, Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University on October 8, 2015, Lecture at 6pm; Humanities Lecture “Salvaging Israel/Palestine: Art, Collaboration, and the Binational State” by W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago on October 29, 2015, Lecture at 6pm, Humanities Seminar October 30, 2015, 2pm; Spring 2016 “’Polite Imagination’: Joseph Addison and the Sister Arts” by James Winn, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English, Boston University on February 11, 2016, Lecture at 5pm; “Attachment Theory” by Rita Felski, John Stewart Bryan Professor of English, University of Virginia on April 7, 2016, Lecture at 6pm; “Shakespeare’s Wife” by Lena Cowen Orlin, Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America, Professor of English, Georgetown University on April 21, 2016, Lecture at 6pm. Events were sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities, the Center for the Study of Europe, and the Departments of English, Romance Studies, and World Languages and Literatures. The events were free and open to the public.

Fall 2015

Criticism Without Justice

Claudio Lomnitz, Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

October 8, 2015

Lecture at 6pm.

Humanities Lecture

Salvaging Israel/Palestine: Art, Collaboration, and the Binational State

W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago

October 29, 2015

Lecture at 6pm

Humanities Seminar

October 30, 2015, 2pm

Spring 2016

“’Polite Imagination’: Joseph Addison and the Sister Arts

James Winn, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English, Boston University

February 11, 2016

Lecture at 5pm.

Attachment Theory

Rita Felski, John Stewart Bryan Professor of English, University of Virginia

April 7, 2016

Lecture at 6pm

Shakespeare’s Wife

Lena Cowen Orlin, Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America, Professor of English, Georgetown University

April 21, 2016

Lecture at 6pm