Dear All,
You are all warmly invited to a lecture by Caryl Emerson (Princeton).
Date and Time: Friday, 28 October 2016, 4 pm (wine reception afterwards)
Venue: Humanities Research Institute, Gell St, University of Sheffield
Organisers: School of Languages and Cultures, with the Bakhtin Centre
and the Prokhorov Centre
Short description:
"Every vital field that is perceived as failing to provide basic
services or commercially viable goods is destined to be in a permanent
'value crisis'. But repeating the mantra of a 'crisis of the humanities'
is a sorry way to approach the challenges of one’s job. The task,
rather, is to argue for the absolute necessity of certain threatened
virtues: serious study of world languages, human dignity as a cognitive
value, organic as opposed to mechanical systems, and the empirical
benefits of patience and real (deep) time".
About our speaker, see:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/prokhorov-centre/events
Best wishes,
Henk
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Henk de Berg
> Professor of German & Head of Germanic Studies
> 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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