Dear Colleagues,
This year's
Annual Arts & Humanities Prokhorov Lecture
will be delivered by
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford)
on
“The Past and Future of the Humanities: An American-European Perspective”.
The lecture will take place on Thursday, 5 May 2016, from 4pm, and will
be followed by a wine reception. Venue: Jessop West, room G03. Entrance
is free.
About our speaker:
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht holds the Albert Guérard Chair in Literature at
Stanford University. He is also Professeur attaché at the Collège de
France, Ständiger Gastprofessor at Zeppelin Universität, and Professor
Catedratico Visitante Permanente at the Universidade de Lisboa. In
addition to eight honorary doctorates from universities in Canada,
Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, and Russia as well as a variety of
other international accolades, he has received the Dean’s Award for
Distinguished Teaching in the School of Humanities and Sciences at
Stanford and the Cuthberson Award for Extraordinary Contributions to
Stanford. Gumbrecht’s areas of teaching and research are French,
Spanish, Italian, and German literatures; the history and culture of the
Middle Ages, of the long 18th century, and of the first half of the 20th
century; literary criticism; and Western philosophy. His books, which
have been translated into over twenty languages, include a history of
Spanish literature, a chronicle of the year 1926, and monographs on
medieval narrative, on rhetoric in the French Revolution, on Zola, and
on the aesthetics of sport. A book project provisionally entitled "Prose
of the World: Diderot, Goya, Lichtenberg, and Mozart and an End of
Enlightenment" is in preparation.
--
Henk de Berg
Professor of German & Co-Director, Prokhorov Centre for the Study of
Central and Eastern European Intellectual and Cultural History
School of Languages and Cultures (Germanic Studies)
University of Sheffield
Jessop West, room 4.09
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield S3 7RA
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