{"id":270032,"date":"2017-09-26T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=270032"},"modified":"2021-11-08T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:25:48","slug":"humanities-center-announces-public-lecture-series-speakers-270032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/humanities-center-announces-public-lecture-series-speakers-270032\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanities Center announces public lecture series speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Humanities Center has announced its slate of public lecture series speakers for this year\u2019s theme of \u201cmemory and forgetting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/douglas-crimp-humanities-center-discuss-memory-writing-269682\/\">Art and cultural critic<strong> Douglas Crimp<\/strong><\/a>, the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History and a professor of visual and cultural studies at Rochester, will deliver a lecture titled \u201cRelying on Memory: From AIDS to Merce Cunningham\u201d on September 26 at 5 p.m. in Conference Room D of the Humanities Center. Crimp is a noted art and cultural critic whose newest book, <em>Before Pictures<\/em>, relies on his own recollections of and reflections on the gay world and the art world in midcentury New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish novelist <strong>Orhan Pamuk<\/strong>, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, will speak on October 25 at 5 p.m. in the Interfaith Chapel.\u00a0He is the author of novels including <em>My Name Is Red<\/em>, <em>The Museum of Innocence<\/em>, and most recently, <em>The Red-Haired Woman<\/em>. Over his 40-year career, his work has been translated into more than 60 languages. Pamuk\u2019s lecture is titled \u201cMemories and Myths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Early-American historian <strong>Laurel Thatcher Ulrich<\/strong> will speak on November 16 at 5 p.m. The author of a phrase that has become ubiquitous on bumper stickers and T-shirts\u2014\u201cWell-behaved women seldom make history\u201d\u2014Ulrich is the 300th Anniversary University Professor in Harvard\u2019s history department. She earned a Pulitzer Prize for her book <em>A Midwife\u2019s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785\u20131812<\/em>. Her newest book is <em>A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women\u2019s Rights in Early Mormonism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary artist <strong>Walid Raad<\/strong> \u201996 (PhD) will speak on January 25 at 5 p.m. Raised in Lebanon during its civil war, Raad is the creator of works in photography, video, and performance that consider the role of memory and narrative in discourse about conflict. In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art hosted the first comprehensive American exhibition of his work.<\/p>\n<p>Neuroscientist <strong>Daniela Schiller<\/strong> will speak on April 12 at 5 p.m. Schiller researches the cognitive science of emotional and traumatic memories. She is a professor of neuroscience and an associate professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her work was the subject of a 2014 <em>New Yorker<\/em> article titled \u201cPartial Recall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The year\u2019s lectures will be complemented by a companion film series on memory and forgetting, developed with the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum. Details of the film series will be announced on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/humanities\/events\/index.html\">Humanities Center website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two other major annual events at the center\u2014the\u00a0Distinguished Visiting Humanist program and the Ferrari Humanities Symposia\u2014will offer public\u00a0lectures, as well, on topics and at times yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Author<strong> John Edgar Wideman <\/strong>will visit the University March 21\u201323, as this year\u2019s Distinguished Visiting Humanist. A professor emeritus at Brown University, Wideman was the first two-time winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, for his novels <em>Sent for You Yesterday<\/em> and <em>Philadelphia Fire<\/em>. His work centers on the lives of black men in urban America.<\/p>\n<p>An expert in the work of Michelangelo and Renaissance art and architecture, art historian <strong>William Wallace<\/strong> will visit the University March 26\u201328 for this year\u2019s Ferrari Humanities Symposia. The Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis, Wallace is the author of seven books on Michelangelo, including <em>Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and His Times<\/em> and <em>Discovering Michelangelo: The Art Lover\u2019s Guide to Understanding Michelangelo\u2019s Masterpieces<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Humanities Center has announced its slate of public lecture series speakers for this year\u2019s theme of \u201cmemory and 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