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Fall 2003
Stuart
Semmel
Mass Observation and the Solo Artist
In association
with Penn's Institute of Contemporary Art
Thursday, September
4, 2003
Alexander
Boraine
Belief in Democracy
Tuesday, September 23
Andrew
Newberg
Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
Wednesday, October 8
A
Gathering of Family: Readings by John Edgar Wideman, Daniel Wideman,
and Albert French
In association with the First International Conference on John Edgar Wideman
Saturday, October 11
Patti
Smith
In concert at the Annenberg Center ($$)
In association with Penn's Institute
of Contemporary Art
Thursday, October 16
Robert
W. Cort
Movies: America's Secular Religion
Tuesday, October 28
Anthony
Santomero
Great Expectations
Wednesday, November 5
Harry
Reicher
Holocaust-Era Testimony: Frailties
of Memory and the Eliding of Belief into Recollection
Tuesday, December 2
Spring 2004
Robert
Farris Thompson
Yale art historian and authority on
African & Afro-Atlantic cultures
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Martha
Nussbaum
giving the Judith R. Berkowitz Endowed Lectureship in Women's
Studies in celebration of their 30th Anniversary
Cosponsor: Penn Humanities
Forum
Thursday, January 29
Dipesh
Chakrabarty
University of Chicago historian and authority on postcolonialism,
politics, and the world of the spirit
Thursday, February 5
Jonathan
Lear
Nef Distinguished Professor, Committee on Social Thought
and Philosophy, University of Chicago
Wednesday, February 11
Dottie
Peoples, Gospel Music
Preservation Alliance, & David Winslow Singers ($$)
In association with Penn Presents at the Annenberg
Center for the Performing Arts
Saturday, February 14
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Spring 2004 (cont.)
S.T.
LEE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Tariq Ali
Writer, filmmaker, and author of
Clash of Fundamentalisms
Wednesday, February 18
Penn Humanities Mellon Fellow Sidney Marquez Boquiren
premieres his composition Misang Walang
Salita (Mass Without Words)
Tuesday, March 16
Guthrie Theatre performing Othello
In association with Penn Presents at the
Annenberg Center ($$)
Wednesday, March 17
Margaret
Jacob
UCLA historian and authority on freethinkers, freemasons, and
other radicals & romantics of the 18th Century
Tuesday, March 23
Peter Geschiere
University of Amsterdam and Leiden University anthropologist
on the relevance
of witchcraft to contemporary politics in Africa
Monday, March 29
Hosted by Penn's
Department of Anthropology; cosponsored by the Center for Folklore
and Ethnography and Penn Humanities Forum.
María
Rosa Menocal
Yale medievalist and author of
The Ornament of the World
Tuesday, March 30
Feast
of Fools with Penn students
April Fool's Day 2004
Richard
Lewontin
Harvard University evolutionary biologist and Triple Helix
author
Wednesday, April 14
Allen
Wood
Stanford philosopher on the Duty to Believe According to the Evidence
Wednesday, April 21
CONFERENCE
Going Too Far: Unethical Medical Research
Wednesday, April 28 – Sunday, May 1
Sponsored by Penn's Center for East Asian Studies
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