vents Calendar
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2008 Spring Semester Events
- Monday, January 25, 2008
4pm, McClung Museum Auditorium
Dr. Peter Dear (Princeton University) will speak on "Science, God and Reason in Early-Modern Europe." Dr. Dear is President Andrew D. White Professor of History and Professor of Science & Technology Studies. His most recent book is _The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World_ (Chicago, 2006).
- Thursday, January 31 - February 17, 2008
The Clarence Brown Theatre at UT will be running a production of Brecht’s"The Life of Galileo" from January 31 to February 17 of this year. Tickets are available at www.clarencebrowntheatre.com or at 974-5161.
The Life of Galileo, Bertolt Brecht’s masterpiece about social responsibility and the clash between science and faith will run January 31 through February 17 on the Clarence Brown Theatre mainstage. Much more than a biography of the famous scientist, mathematician, philosopher and father of the machine age, the production looks deeply into the ethics of science and poses a number of questions, drawing close correlations to the events that occurred at the end of World War II (atomic warfare) and in the 1950’s and 60’s.
- Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9, 2008
9am to 5:30pm both days, in Temple Court room 205
Marco Manuscript Workshop: intended to be more a class than a conference, this year's topic is "Texts in Motion." The workshop will consider the effect of time on texts. Virtually all manuscript texts vary to some degree from one copy to another; some texts underwent more radical expansion, continuation, or revision, by their authors or others, and significantly different versions of the same text circulated alongside one another.
These multiform texts raise a number of challenging questions for a modern editor:- what is the relationship, both textual and contextual, between the different versions of the text?
- Which version should form the basis for an edited text?
- How can the range of textual differences be represented?
- How much of this material ought to be presented?
- Is it possible, finally, to capture the spirit of a medieval text in motion?
- Thursday, March 6, 2008
4pm, University Center room 226
Dr. Chris Celenza (Johns Hopkins University) will be giving a guest lecture as part of the Renaissance Humanisms Seminar on the topic "Lorenzo Valla’s Image of Aristotle." A reception will follow the talk.
- Friday, March 7, 2008
12:15 pm to 1:30 pm, Temple Court room 205
Dr. Chris Celenza (Johns Hopkins University) will give a Marco Colloquium on "New Directions in Pre-Modern Studies."
Faculty and graduate students in all disciplines are encouraged to attend. This colloquium is a follow-up to Dr.Celenza's lecture on Thursday and is part of the Renaissance Humanisms Seminar sponsored by the Humanities Initiative.