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The Humanities Center
Bringing Humanists Together for Collaborative Research

2004 FALL SYMPOSIUM

Theme: Questioning Foundations and Methods in the Humanities and Arts
November 12, 2004

10:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.

Speakers:

Anne Wagner, University of California at Berkeley
"Our Flag Was Still There: U.S. Hegemony and Jasper Johns"

Michael Berube, Pennsylvania State
"What I Tell my Students about Post-modernism"


Sue Wells, Temple University
"Theory vs. Practice: The Case of Grounded Theory"


Dora Apel, Art & Art History
"Media Images and Public Art: The Photographs of Abu Ghraib"

Barrett Watten, English
"Poetry as a Scene of Decision"

Steve Shaviro, English
"Without Criteria"

Herb Granger, Philosophy
"Philosophical Analysis: Its Past and Prospects"

Allen Batteau, Anthropology
"Situated Knowledge in Engineering, the Arts and the Natural Sciences"

Ellen Barton, Linguistics
"The Linguist in the English Department"


Moderator:
Steve Winter, Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Legal Studies