Promotional poster for past Lectures in Criticism events. The speakers are Sharon Cameron from Johns Hopkins University giving a talk titled “Tolstoy, Bresson, and the Ground of the Ethical” on October 20, 2016, at 6pm; Anthony Reed from Yale University giving a talk titled “Now is the Question: Amiri Baraka in a Post-Revolutionary Age” on December 1, 2016, at 6pm; Anthony Grafton from Princeton University giving a talk titled “The Two Cultures in Renaissance Europe” on February 16, 2017, at 6pm with a seminar for faculty and graduate students February 17, 2017, at 2pm; Efrain Kristal from UCLA giving a talk titled “Jorge Luis Borges and the Two World Wars” on March 16, 2017, at 6pm; and J. Keith Vincent from Boston University giving a talk titled “Queer Transmissions in Japan: A Haiku Hauntology” on April 13, 2017, at 6pm. The events are sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities and the Departments of English, Romance Studies, and World Languages and Literatures. The events were free and open to the public.

Fall 2016

Tolstoy, Bresson, and the Ground of the Ethical

Sharon Cameron, William R. Kenan Jr. Emerita Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University

October 20, 2016

Lecture at 6pm.

Now is the Question: Amiri Baraka in a Post-Revolutionary Age

Anthony Reed, Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, Yale University

December 1, 2016

Lecture at 6pm.

Spring 2017

Humanities Lecture

“The Two Cultures in Renaissance Europe”

Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University

February 16, 2017

Lecture at 6pm

Humanities Seminar

February 17, 2017, 2pm

“Jorge Luis Borges and the Two World Wars”

Efraín Kristal, Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, UCLA

March 16, 2017

Lecture at 6pm

[Postponed to 2018]

“Queer Transmissions in Japan: A Haiku Hauntology”

J. Keith Vincent, Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Boston University

April 13, 2017

Lecture at 6pm