Upcoming Events
The Holocaust and the 'Subject' of Fiction
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 5 p.m.,Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Emily Budick
Ann and Joseph Edelman Professor of American Studies, Director of the Center for Literary Studies
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Followed by a reception.
The lecture will deal with the ways in which Holocaust fictions frame the problem of subject position, forcing the reader to confront the ways in which even horrific historical events can become subjects of fantasy and projection. Professor Budick will discuss Cynthia Ozick's The Shawland Art Spiegelman's Maus.
How Kant, Following Milton, Achieved Actual Experience
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 5 p.m., 100-104 McKenna Hall
Sanford Budick
Professor of English, Emeritus
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Followed by a reception
Reflecting in his Opus Posthumum on Milton's image of reciprocity in "the two great sexes [that] animate the world" of Paradise Lost, Kant glimpsed a unity of theoretical and practical (moral) reason that he had projected, but that had largely eluded him, since the first Critique. The lecture will demonstrate how poetry, working hand-in-hand with philosophy, can make possible a grasp of the real.
Senior Banquet
May 15, 2012
Tippecanoe
5:30 p.m. class photo
The Senior Banquet gathers graduating students and faculty for conversation and farewell. The recipients of the Nutting Award, Bird Award, Clements Award, and Rogers award are announced at the Banquet.
Summer Symposium
Each summer, Program of Liberal Studies and General Program alumni/ae gather on Notre Dame's campus, eager to engage their teachers, the authors of the Great Books.
Fourteenth Annual PLS/GP Summer Symposium
June 3-8, 2012