Dear All,
you are very warmly invited to the two following events
which will take place in Manchester
next week:
Professor Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University)
Quickening (Five Timeslices Through the
Anthropology of Speed)
4 December 2008, University Place Room 4.206, 5 pm
Discussants:
Professor Stephen J. Milner and Dr Francesca Billiani
This is the first of a series of initiatives to
de developed in collaboration with Stanford
University. Professor
Schnapp’s lecture is divided up into five sections concerned with the
Athens of Pericles, ancient Roman speed sports, angelic messengers in
Scholastic theology, mental speed in Baroque theories of wit, and the emergence
of modern forms of thrill-seeking.
A drinks reception will
follow
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Jeffrey Schnapp is the Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian
Literature and Director of The Stanford Humanities Laboratory at Stanford University. One of the most acclaimed
Italianists and comparatists of today, Professor Schnapp has published, as
author and editor, more than twenty books, including Neoantiqua - Nove ensaios sobre literatura, linguagem e pensamento na
Idade Média e no Renascimiento. (Collection of essays, translated
into Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro:
Eduerj, 2008; Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Teatro.
Ed., introduced, and annotated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. 2 vols. Milan: Oscar Mondadori, 2004; Building Fascism,
Communism, Democracy: Gaetano Ciocca--Builder, Inventor, Farmer, Writer,
Engineer. Stanford: Stanford U P, 2003; The Transfiguration of History
at the Center of Dante's
Paradise, Princeton & Guildford: Princeton U P, 1986.
AND
MAPPING
AND FRAMING CULTURAL SPACES UNDER DICTATORSHIPS
ORGANISED
BY
ITALIAN STUDIES IN
COLLABORATION WITH THE “INSTITUTE
FOR TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES IN LANGUAGES, LINGUISTICS AND CULTURES” (ITS)
ONE-DAY
SYMPOSIUM
5 DECEMBER 2008
Keynote: Jeffrey
Schnapp in conversation with leading national and international specialists in
Italian, Russian, German and Spanish historical and cultural studies.
VENUE: UNIVERSITY PLACE ROOM 2.219
For further information,
please contact: Francesca Billiani at [log in to unmask]
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