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| A Free Event at the Center for Public Scholarship, The New School Posted: 15 Jan 2014 11:47 AM PST The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School is pleased to announce a free public event: Speaking for the Humanities On Thursday, February 20, 2014, from 6 to 8 p.m. at The New School Arnold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, NYC February 20, 2014 Reception follows RSVP at goo.gl/4djG7C The CPS invites readers of the Law and Humanities Blog to attend. On the occasion of the publication of Humanities and Public Life by Fordham University Press, a panel of scholars discuss how to defend and even talk about the humanities without succumbing to the instrumentalist language of their detractors (measuring outcomes and deliverables) or retreating into the ivory tower by simply asserting that the humanities don't need justification. Judith Butler, Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Visiting Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University; Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley Richard Sennett, Centennial Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics; University Professor of the Humanities, New York University Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia Law School Moderator: Peter Brooks, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar, Professor, University Center for Human Values, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University  |
| Human Rights From Conrad to Coppola Posted: 15 Jan 2014 08:56 AM PST P. G. Monateri, Sciences Po, Ecole de Droit; Law School, University of Torino (Italy); University of Turin, Faculty of Law, has published In the Shadow of an Absent Law. Human Rights and the Meaning from Conrad to Coppola, Via Eliot and Brooks in 19 The Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin (2013 Edition), The Fall Issue. Here is the abstract. A Presentation Held at the Annual Meeting of Italian Association of Law and Literature (AIDEL) analyzing the way Coppola produces meaning through deferral giving the Human Rights content to the faceless horrors of Conrad's Kurtz, via essential quotations from Eliot. In this way the Author also purport a theory of the meaning of the Waste Land through the close reading of its Epigraphe after Pound's interventions.  |
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