Literature and Philosophy Workshop

All meetings take place Thursday at 4:30pm in Foster 305 unless otherwise noted, and are followed by a small reception. Papers to be read in advance are announced via the listserv and posted under “Workshop Documents”  tab one week prior to the meeting.     Thursday, April 4: Myron Silberstein, Committee on Social Thought cohort ’02-’03, Resident Composer at Storycatchers [...]

All meetings take place Thursday at 4:30pm in Foster 305 unless otherwise noted. Papers to be read in advance will be circulated via listserv one week prior to the meeting.   Thursday, January 10: Jonathan Baskin, PhD Candidate in the Committee on Social Thought, “Untrendy Problems: Pale King’s Philosophical Inspirations” (treating David Foster Wallace)   [...]

  All meetings take place Thursday at 4:30pm in Foster 305 unless otherwise noted. Papers to be read in advance will be circulated via listserv one week prior to the meeting.   Thursday, October 4: Introductory Meeting Readings: Stanley Cavell’s essay, “Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy,” and Wallace Stevens’ poem, “Of Modern Poetry”   Thursday, October 18: Hannah Mosher, PhD [...]

    Dear Literature and Philosophy Enthusiasts, We’re honored to be following founders Agnes Malinowska and Michael Subialka in serving you as the Literature and Philosophy Workshop Coordinators. As you know, the workshop exists primarily to promote the interests and aims of University of Chicago graduate students, but benefits greatly from the ongoing involvement of [...]

**All meetings take place on Thursday at 4:30pm in COBB 104 unless otherwise noted. **Papers to be read in advance will be circulated via listserv one week prior to the meeting.   March 29th – Hannah Mosher, PhD Candidate in the Committee on Social Thought, “What’s So Ethical About Inwardness?: The Many Forms of Inwardness [...]

  **All meetings take place on Thursday at 4:30pm in Foster 305 unless otherwise noted. **Papers to be read in advance will be circulated via listserv one week prior to the meeting.   January 12th – Robert Abbott, PhD Candidate in the Committee on Social Thought and Germanic Studies, “To Weep and Know Why: Rilke’s [...]

    **All meetings take place at 4:30pm in Foster 305 unless otherwise noted. **Papers to be read in advance will be circulated via listserv one week prior to the meeting.     Friday, September 30th at 1pm in Rosenwald 405 – Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138. Lunch provided. Joint session with Poetry and Poetics Workshop [...]

The quarter is over and we have no further official workshop events until next fall. However, those who are interested in participating in a summer reading group on literature and philosophy with other workshop members should contact the workshop coordinators to have their names added to the summer reading group email list.   The reading [...]

Thursday, March 31 – Lisa Ruddick, Associate Professor of English, leading a discussion of cognitive studies approaches to literature Thursday, April 14 – Agnes Malinowska, PhD Candidate in Social Thought, on “The Activity of Consciousness: Pragmatism and American Literature in the Age of Evolution” Thursday, April 28 in Foster 505 – James Conant, Chester D. [...]

All meetings held on Thursdays at 4:30pm in Foster 305 unless otherwise noted. Thursday, January 13, 2011 – Reading from Rilke (selections from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge). Thursday, January 27,  2011 in Foster 505– Eric Santner, Philip and Ida Romburg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies and in the Committee on Jewish Studies, on “Modernism [...]