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Monday, 17 October 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Beyond the Shadow Zone: A Bilingual Reading and Conversation with Brazilian Poet Claudia Roquette-Pinto
Neilson Browsing Room, Smith Campus
Co-spondored by Spanish & Portuguese, Global Studies Center, and the Endowed Lecture Funds at Smith College, and by the Five Colleges Afro-Luso-Brazilian Faculty Seminar. Free and open to the public, wheelchair accessible
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 8:00 a.m.
Stray Bullets and Lasting Flowers: A Breakfast Chat with Brazilian Poet Claudia Roquette-Pinto
Global Studies Center
Light breakfast will be served
Sponsored by the Global Studies Center
Students are encouraged to sign up in advance with Professor Marguerite Itamar Harrison, mharriso@smith.edu
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NEW COURSE FOR SPRING SEMESTER
Mini-course description:
Starting in the late eighteenth century, avant-garde artists began to explore the claim that rationality cannot account for all of human experience; they were fascinated by madness, dreams, the irrational, and the sublime. We will be investigating this phenomenon from a literary, artistic, and philosophical point of view, from the time of the Enlightenment philosophers to the twentieth century.
George Katsaros holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. He has taught at Yale, in the Comparative Literature department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and in the European Studies Program at Amherst College.
