2006年10月30日星期一

Literature and Citizenship: A Conversation with Arthur Danto and Orhan Pamuk

"Literature and Citizenship" is part of the Havel at Columbia program sponsored by the Columbia University Arts Initiative.

Arthur Danto is Johnsonian Professor Emeritus Philosopy at Columbia University. Professor Danto has been with Columbia since 1951, a professor since 1966. He has been the recipient of many fellowships and grants including two Guggenheims, ACLS, and Fulbright. Professor Danto has served as Vice-President and President of the American Philosophical Association, as well as President of the American Society for Aesthetics. He is the author of numerous books, including Nietzsche as Philosopher, Mysticism and Morality, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Narration and Knowledge, Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy, and Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present, a collection of art criticism which won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism, 1990. His most recent book is Embodied Meanings: Critical Essays and Aesthetic Meditations. Art critic for The Nation, he has also published numerous articles in other journals. In addition, he is an editor of the Journal of Philosophy and consulting editor for various other publications.

Orhan Pamuk, the internationally acclaimed Turkish novelist and memoirist, won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Mr. Pamuk is a Fellow with Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought and will hold an appointment in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and at the School of the Arts. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages and he has received numerous prestigious international prizes, including Le Prix Mediterranee etranger, the Prix Medicis, the Ricarda Huch Prize, and honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A native of Istanbul, Mr. Pamuk was also a visiting scholar at Columbia University from 1985 to 1988.

Date: Thursday, November 2nd, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Miller Theater

Contact:

Members of the Press who wish to attend this event should contact Anne Burt at 212-854-7884 or ab2673@columbia.edu
Reservations: Tickets are free but reservations are required: http://havel.columbia.edu/literature.html

Levitan: Spring Flood

Kuindzhi: After the Rain

Repin: Dragonfly

Tropinin: The Lace Maker

Mother of God

兰因絮果

休恋逝水,苦海回身,早悟兰因

2006年10月29日星期日

Haunted House

My first and only haunted house experience, Oct 28, 2006. I found out I don't like stranger to touch me or spread water on my face, while screaming loudly. Although I like to try something new, this is a little bit over the edge.