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  • Annual Dinner and Tannenbaum Lecture

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
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    This event is open to members of The University Seminars community only. Registration is required. This year’s Tannenbaum Lecturer is Margo Jefferson and the Tannenbaum-Warner Award recipient is Robert Pollack. TANNENBAUM LECTURE Criticism as Intellectual Inquiry and Emotional Invention Being an Other in America teaches you to imagine what can’t imagine you. I was thinking, when I first wrote this, of certain kinds of otherness. Otherness in terms of race, gender, and class; in terms of temperament and aesthetics. I was thinking about the charged relations between fact, practice, ideology, and passion when one writes criticism. And of the social structures […]

  • Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture I

    Featured Art of the Lecture Series
    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
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    Postponed until Fall 2027 Art of the Lecture Brent Hayes Edwards Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature Lecture I: "Talking in and out of School" Although lecture courses are a staple of university teaching, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and […]

  • Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture II

    Art of the Lecture Series
    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
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    Postponed until Fall 2027 Art of the Lecture Brent Hayes Edwards Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature Lecture II: “A Brief History of the Podium Shuck” Although lecture courses are a staple of university teaching, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and […]

  • Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture III

    Art of the Lecture Series
    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
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    Postponed until Fall 2027 Art of the Lecture Brent Hayes Edwards Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature Lecture III: “Accompaniments of the Utterance” Although lecture courses are a staple of university teaching, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at […]

  • Annual Dinner and Tannenbaum Lecture

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
    Annual Events

    This event is open to members of The University Seminars community only. Registration is required. This year’s Tannenbaum Lecturer is Lynn Garafola and the Tannenbaum-Warner Award recipient is David Johnston. MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW