AU Arts Calendar

Joan Tasker Grimbert, Professor of French and Chair of
the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the Catholic University of America, will deliver an illustrated talk on "Romantic(Mis)readings of the Medieval Legend of Tristan and Iseult: Richard Wagner, Joseph Bédier, and Denis de Rougemont," showing how the modern conception of the medieval legend has been changed by these ...more

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We are thrilled to announce that H.E. Samir Sumaida'ie, the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States, will be visiting American University this Monday to discuss Iraqi art and culture.

Mr. Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie was appointed Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in July 2004. In April 2006, he moved to Washington to serve as Iraq's first ambassador to the United States ...more

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The Humanities Initiative and the Center for Public Arts and the Humanities are pleased to present Professor Lewis H. Gordon, who will speak about his own work and the challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary scholarship.

Professor Gordon, the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, works in the areas of Africana philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of ...more

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Please join the Department of Literature for the final event in this semester's Graduate Speakers Series: a lecture by Paul C. Taylor, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Temple University, director of Temple's Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought, and a specialist on aesthetics, the philosophy of culture, Africana philosophy, and the philosophy of race....more

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MFA creative writing students Alicia Case and Kathryn Murphy will read from their works in progress. Refreshments served.

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Host: University Library

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