Gauss Seminars in Criticism 2009-2010
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Named in honor of Dean Christian Gauss, The Gauss Seminars in Criticism were instituted in 1949 to provide a focus for discussion, study, and the exchange of ideas in the humanities.
Several seminars are held annually. The seminars may take different forms, but traditionally they have been conducted by guests invited to present material upon which they are working. Past seminar leaders have included Erich Auerbach, Hannah Arendt, W. H. Auden, Noam Chomsky, Roman Jakobson, Elaine Scarry, Joan Scott, and Raymond Bellour. Faculty and graduate students from Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the community at large participate in each seminar.
Director:
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Comparative Literature
Committee Members:
Hal Foster, Art and Archeology
P. Adams Sitney, Program in Visual Studies
Susan Stewart, English
Michael Wood, English and Comparative Literature
Title: "Modernity" Revisited: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art
Speaker: Jacques Rancière
Affiliation: University of Paris (St. Denis), emeritus
October 19, 4:30 - 6:30pm
Hegel and the Little Gods of the Street
101 McCormick Hall
October 21, 4:30 - 6:30pm
How Emerson Invented Modernism
101 McCormick Hall
October 26, 4:30 - 6:30pm
Why Charlie Chaplin Became the Hero of the Artistic Avant-Garde
101 McCormick Hall
Title: On the Lost Manuscript
Speaker: Abdelfattah Kilito
Affiliation: Professor, Muhammad V University, Rabat, Morocco
November 17, 4:30 - 6:30pm
The Second Madness of Shahriyar
111 East Pyne
November 19, 4:30 - 6:30pm
Is Harîrî the Author of His Assemblies?
111 East Pyne
November 23, 5:30 - 7:00pm
An Unpublished Tale from The Arabian Nights?
111 East Pyne
