SEMINAR SERIES: Presentations on Sexuality and the Social Link at Après-Coup

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2015-2016 SEMINAR SERIES
Presentations on Sexuality and the Social Link

November 4, 2015
Martin Winn: The Subject and the Social Link

November 18, 2015
Lilian Ferrari: On the Impossibility of Saying The Whole Truth

December 9, 2015
Adriana Passini, The Four Discourses in the Direction of the Cure Continue reading SEMINAR SERIES: Presentations on Sexuality and the Social Link at Après-Coup

Writer’s Wednesday: William Faulkner

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Click Here to Read: William Faulkner on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  William Faulkner on the Mississippi Writer’s Page Website.

Click Here to Read:  How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself by John jeremiah Sullivan in The Nwe York Times on June 28, 2012.

Click Here to Read: The Faulkner Truthers by Maria Bustillos on the Awl website on April 22, 2014, Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: William Faulkner

Campuses Debate Rising Demands for ‘Comfort Animals’

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Click Here to Read: Campuses Debate Rising Demands for ‘Comfort Animals’ By Jan Hoffman in The New York Times on October 4, 2015.

Mary McCarthy and Carl, her rabbit, with her roommate, Rachel Brill, and her dog Theo, in their campus apartment at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Carl and Theo are emotional support animals, permitted by the college to live on campus.CreditDrew Angerer for The New York Times

Scientists Hope to Learn How Pompeians Lived, Before the Big Day

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Click Here to Read: Scientists Hope to Learn How Pompeians Lived, Before the Big Day By Eliabetta Povoledo in The New York Times on October. 5, 2015.

Casts of the victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in site of Pompeii, Italy. Scientists are scanning the casts to learn what the contents can reveal about daily life before the eruption.CreditGianni Cipriano for The New York Times

Jane Hall’s pick for Lyrical Tuesday: “Autumn in New York”

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Click Here to Listen to: Autumn in New York sung by Frank Sinatra on YouTube.

Click Here to Listen to:  Autumn in New York sung by Billie Holiday on YouTube.

“Autumn In New York”

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Why does it seem so inviting?
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It spells the thrill of first-knighting Continue reading Jane Hall’s pick for Lyrical Tuesday: “Autumn in New York”

Chantal Akerman has died aged 65

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Click Here to Read: Chantal Akerman has died aged 65: Akerman leaves behind a groundbreaking body of work, including the three-hour classic Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Samuel Wigley on the  October 6, 2015.

Click Here to Read: Postscript: Chantal Akerman by Richard Brody in The New Yorker on October 6, 2015.

Click Here to Read: Chantal Akerman, Whose Films Examined Women’s Inner Lives, Dies at 65 By Rachel Donadio and Cara Buckley October 6, 2015.