Tuesday November 17, 2009 at 7 PM
Dipesh Chakrabarty

Laurence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor
History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago

Between Globalization and Global Warming:
The Long and the Short of Human History

Dipesh Chakrabarty is Laurence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago, where he is also a Faculty Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. His scholarship has been central to postcolonial history and historiography, from his early work with the Subaltern Studies collective and the publication of Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal, 1890-1940 (1989) to Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000; new edition 2007) and Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (2002). His Katz lecture on the science of climate change and its impact on historical thinking draws on a new book project in-process.

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Thursday February 4, 2010 at 7 PM
Richard Gray

Fabulation and Metahistory:
W. G. Sebald and Recent German Holocaust Fiction

Through an examination of W.G. Sebald, Professor Gray’s Katz lecture engages the conflicts between poetic technique and historical reliability that haunt contemporary German Holocaust literature.

Richard Gray is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Germanics at the University of Washington. His research focuses on German literature and intellectual history in the modernist period, evidenced in books that span Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850 (2008), About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz (2004), and Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1912 (1995), and A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia (2005), among other authored, co-authored, edited, and translated works. He is editor of the Literary Conjugations series for the University of Washington Press.

This lecture will be held in Kane 220

Thursday April 29, 2010 at 7 PM
TJ Clark

Guernica Revisited

T.J. Clark is Professor and George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair of Modern Art at the University of California, Berkeley. A renowned art historian, Clark’s highly influential, and sometimes controversial, books include The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006), Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999), and The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (1984), among others. Clark’s many honors include election to the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellowship, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Getty Research Institute, as well as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2008 he delivered Picasso and Truth, a six-part lecture series for the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

This lecture will be held in Kane 220