Humanities lectures to return

Six prominent speakers will come to the university as part of the Center for the Humanities 2001-02 “Humanities Without Boundaries” free public lecture series: critic Stanley Fish, Thursday, Sept. 13; scholar of the American West Patricia Limerick, Thursday, Oct. 25; Chinese art scholar Wen Fong, Thursday, Nov. 15; linguist Steven Pinker Tuesday, March 5; African-American studies philosopher and scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah, Thursday, April 4; and art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto, Thursday, May 2.

Fish, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is a critic known for his writings about the role of the reader in literature. Limerick, professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is a nationally renowned author and historian of the American West. Fong, Douglas Dillon Curator Emeritus of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will focus on the formation of Chinese calligraphic practice and theory. Pinker is one of the world’s leading experts on language and the mind. Appiah, the Charles H. Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy at Harvard University, covers African and African-American philosophy and literary theory and more. Danto is Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University; his areas of specialization include thought, feeling, philosophy of art and more.

The Center for the Humanities coordinates and sponsors interdisciplinary activities and events in the humanities.