The winner of the National Humanities Medal, a remarkable performer and scholar of European music, an expert in Modernism, and the author of two important essays on Walter Benjamin, Rosen died December 9, 2012.
See the New York Times obituary here.
b2 Focus.
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The Humanities and Neurosciences
b2 took its first steps towards organizing symposia, lectures, and publications on The Humanities and Neurosciences. Lots of help from some distinguished Pittsburgh scientists and the visiting Wlad Godzich. More news to come, including a new page on this site.
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Audio Links to the Sovereignty Seminar of November 3, 2012 at the University of Pittsburgh
Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara/Cairo: Triangulating New Prerogative Subjects in Egypt’s Brotherhood State, and the “Sha’abiya” of New Popular Sovereignty Alternatives
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Wlad Godzich, UC Santa Cruz: Sovereignty and University
click this link
Tony Bogues, Brown University: Popular Sovereignty and the Practices of Freedom: Or How Do We Make a New Beginning? Notes towards working through a Conundrum
Ronald Judy, University of Pittsburgh: Restless Freedom and the sources (masādir) of siyāda sha’abiya: the Tunisian Question
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Wlad Godzich at Pitt
Coinciding with the time of the b2 editorial board meeting and conference, Wlad Godzich will present two additional lectures:
Friday, November 2, 2012 2 PM, “Conceptions of the Human, Conceptions of the Humanities,” 35th floor of the Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh sponsored with the Undergraduate Honors College.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, “Pseudophilia, Truthiness, and the University,” The Humanities Center of the University of Pittsburgh, room 602 Cathedral of Learning.
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In Memoriam: María Rosa Menocal
boundary 2 mourns the death of a great scholar and exemplary critical humanist. The intellectual and academic worlds are much poorer without her prose, knowledge, and critical values.
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From Seminar to Jail Cell
thanks to Lindsay Waters for forwarding this link to the excellent Scott McLemee.
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Humanism
boundary 2 has decided to commit substantial time and resources to discussing “humanism,” a topic current in all serious intellectual disciplines now and central to the political organization of the world and its imaginative dispositions.
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Don Pease Awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa
Congratulations to Don!In recognition of his scholarly achievements, the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University will confer the degree in a ceremony on January 29, 2011.