Royal Holloway
HOLOCAUST & 20TH CENTURY HISTORY
RESEARCH CENTRE LECTURE
by Professor Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University
'Holocaust & Hope'
29th October 2002 at 5.30pm
Main Lecture Theatre, Founder's Building,
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
Followed by a Reception in the Picture Gallery
An expert on rhetoric, literary theory and holocaust literature, Geoffrey
Hartman is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
at Yale University, known for his work on romanticism, literary
interpretation and theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis.
Born in Frankfurt, Professor Hartman was forced to leave Germany in 1939, at
the age of 9. In recent years he has turned his attention to the Holocaust,
in particular, Holocaust remembrance. He is a co-founder and faculty advisor
to the Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale; has served on the
board of the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, Inc; has been a special
advisor to the chairman and has served on the education committee of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Council; has served on the advisory board
of the ADL International Centre for Holocaust Studies; and served as
chairman of Connecticut's state ceremonies for the 1987 Holocaust
Remembrance.
His books include: Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature
Today
The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust
The Fateful Question of Culture
A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998
College transport will leave Egham Station at 5.15pm and return from the
Clock Tower at 7.20pm
Professor Stephen Hill, Principal
requests the pleasure of your company at the
HOLOCAUST & 20TH CENTURY HISTORY
RESEARCH CENTRE LECTURE
by Professor Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University
'Holocaust & Hope'
29th October 2002 at 5.30pm
Main Lecture Theatre, Founder's Building,
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
Followed by a Reception in the Picture Gallery
An expert on rhetoric, literary theory and holocaust literature, Geoffrey
Hartman is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
at Yale University, known for his work on romanticism, literary
interpretation and theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis.
Born in Frankfurt, Professor Hartman was forced to leave Germany in 1939, at
the age of 9. In recent years he has turned his attention to the Holocaust,
in particular, Holocaust remembrance. He is a co-founder and faculty advisor
to the Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale; has served on the
board of the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, Inc; has been a special
advisor to the chairman and has served on the education committee of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Council; has served on the advisory board
of the ADL International Centre for Holocaust Studies; and served as
chairman of Connecticut's state ceremonies for the 1987 Holocaust
Remembrance.
His books include: Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature
Today
The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust The Fateful Question
of Culture
A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998
College transport will leave Egham Station at 5.15pm
and return from the Clock Tower at 7.20pm
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Professor Stephen Hill, Principal
requests the pleasure of your company at the
INAUGURAL Lecture
by Professor Caroline Barron, History
"The Writing on the Wall: the Uses of Literacy in Medieval London"
21st October 2002 at 5.30pm
Main Lecture Theatre, Founder's Building,
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
Followed by a Reception in the Picture Gallery
Professor of the History of London and Dean of the Graduate School, Caroline
Barron has taught history since 1964, first at Bedford College and, since
1985, at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. She has published books
and articles on many aspects of the history and literature of medieval
London (government, education, relations with the Crown, women, religious
guilds, aristocratic life styles, Parliamentary representation, church
music, Chaucer, Langland) and wrote the chapter on medieval London for the
Cambridge Urban History of England (2000). Her book on London 1200-1500
will be published by the OUP in 2003. She has long been particularly
interested in Richard II and wrote the chapter on his reign in the New
Cambridge Medieval History (1999).
This lecture will re-examine the vexed question of medieval literacy: to
what extent were medieval people, specifically medieval Londoners, able to
read? In what ways were they exposed to the written word? In contrast with
France, the use of the vernacular in royal and civic government seems to
have come very late: why were those in authority here so afraid of English
in the late 14th century?
College transport will leave Egham Station at 5.15pm
and return from the Clock Tower at 7.20pm
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Professor Drummond Bone, Principal
requests the pleasure of your company at the
INAUGURAL Lecture
by Professor David Simon
"Dilemmas of Development and the Environment in a Globalising World: Theory,
Policy and Praxis"
25th October 2001 at 5.30pm
Main Lecture Theatre, Founder's Building,
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
Followed by a Reception in the Picture Gallery
David Simon is a graduate of the universities of Cape Town, Reading and
Oxford - where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Since joining Royal Holloway in
1987, he has been instrumental in raising substantially the international
profile of the Geography Department's Centre for Developing Areas Research
(CEDAR), which he directed from 1994-2001. His most recent volumes are South
Africa in Southern Africa; Reconfiguring the Region (1998) and Development
as Theory and Practice (with Anders Närman, 1999).
His Inaugural Lecture will address some of the central dilemmas of
contemporary development studies, which centre around disjunctures between
theoretical innovation, formal policy and practice on the ground. Even the
very meaning of 'development' and its implications for donors and the
supposed beneficiaries are today hotly contested. Questions of scale,
sustainability and identity lie at the heart of debates over the supposedly
homogenising effects of pervasive globalisation. Drawing on examples from
his recent research on the complex relationships between development and the
environment in seven diverse sub-Saharan African and tropical Asian
countries, David Simon will highlight the inadequacy of many prevailing
conventional wisdoms and argue the need for more nuanced and contextual
approaches in addressing poverty, disempowerment, environmental degradation
and other mantras of
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