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NOVEMBER 8

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AFTER NOVEMBER 8

      • Mon 11/09/09
        1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
      • Iraqi Art & Culture Discussion with Ambassador Samir Sumaida'ie
      • Battelle-Tompkins Atrium

      • 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

        Type: Lecture/Speaker
        Host: Literature

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      • Fri 11/13/09
        2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
      • Humanities Initiative: Lewis R. Gordon
      • Battelle-Tompkins Atrium

      • 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

        Type: Lecture/Speaker
        Host: Literature

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      • Fri 11/13/09
        5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
      • Blackness after the End of History; or, Who You Calling Post-Racial?
      • Ward Circle 2

      • 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

        Type: Lecture/Speaker
        Host: Literature

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      • Mon 11/16/09
        noon – 1:00 pm
      • Literary Lunchtime in the Library
      • Bender Library MUD Box

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

        Type: Lecture/Speaker
        Host: University Library

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      • Fri 11/20/09
        2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
      • Humanities Initiative: G. Levine & M. Sheriff
      • Battelle-Tompkins Atrium

      • The Humanities Initiative and the Center for the Public Arts and Humanities are pleased to host talks by Professor George Levine and Professor Mary Sheriff. Both will be talking about the perils and opportunities of interdisciplinary work.

        Professor George Levine, a professor of English at Rutgers University, works in aesthetics, nineteenth-century literature and culture, the relations between ...more

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        Host: Literature

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