Jula Wildberger in Florence

View from the office window of my host, professoressa Rita Degl'Innocenti Pierini

As part of her ongoing search for lost Stoic treatises on ethics and the emotions, Jula Wildberger gave an invited talk “Copia-e-incolla e la struttura del compendio di etica stoica attribuito ad Ario Didimo” at the Facoltà di lettere of the Università degli studi in Florence.

More photographs after the jump:

Professor Medin’s Kafka class travels to Prague

Professor Medin's students in the Café Louvre, which Kafka used to frequent (no doubt for its exceptionally decadent hot chocolate), along with Albert Einstein and other notable early-twentieth-century intellectuals.

Last week, Professor Medin and students from the CL4000 Kafka and World Literature class traveled to Prague. Lucile Culver took these photographs  (more after the jump):

Dan Gunn and George Craig in Cambridge and at the LRB bookshop

Dan Gunn and his co-editor George Craig will be reading from The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume II at the Cambridge University Bookshop in Cambridge on 1 February (6p.m.-8p.m.) and at the London Review of Books bookshop in London the following evening.

Dan will be glad to meet any alums who are able to make it.

Professor Medin leads study trip to Flaubert’s birthplace

AUP at the Musee Flaubert

Students reading Flaubert were taken on a tour of  Rouen by Daniel Medin. The itinerary included:

1. Musée Flaubert at the Hôtel Dieu (see photo above)

2. Lunch at Place du vieux marché, site of Jeanne d’Arc’s execution

3. Flaubert statue by Bernstamm at Place des Carmes; reading from opening to Flaubert’s Parrot by Julien Barnes (which is set at this location, below this sculpture)

4. Brief stop before the Church of Saint-Ouen

5. Exhibition of Flaubert portraits by Maxime Adam-Tessier at the Hotel de Ville

6. Private viewing of Flaubert’s library at the Hotel de Ville of Canteleu, with focus on texts used for research of Bouvard et Pécuchet (though we also see copies of the author’s nightstand standbys, Montaigne and Cervantes)

7. Visit to Rouen Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame), where we view a tympanum recreated in Flaubert’s story “Herodias”; the stained glass window that inspired his “Saint Julian the Hospitalier”; and a facade painted by Monet, about which a character in Proust’s Recherche carries on

8. Stroll through the old city, with a stop at the charnel house of Saint-Maclou

9. Glimpse at the Tour Jeanne d’Arc and the old stammcafé of Sarte and de Beauvoir

Jula Wildberger talking in Paris

On 29 April, Jula Wildberger will give a paper at a conference on Stoicism organised by the CNRS, Paris IV, and the ENS. This is her first presentation in French.

The program for the conference is here: Programme_Stoicisme LR_2010-2011

Shakespeare in Context: Study trip to Stratford-upon-Avon

These photos from the recent Comparative Literature study trip to Stratford-upon-Avon (plays watched: Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, King Lear).

Swans on the Avon

Pictures from Dan Gunn’s trip to New York

These photos are  from Dan Gunn’s recent trip to New York.

 

Caroline Markunas (Wright), Christine Allen, Havilah Clarke at the Soho Grand Hotel

 

More after the jump:

Harlem or bust!!!

Alice Mikal Craven is off to New York, Harlem, to be exact, a place she lived just north of upon finishing her undergraduate degree, and just south of while doing her graduate studies at New York University.  She will be joining with people from New York Public radio for a public reading of James Baldwin’s “The Creative Process” and round table discussions, music and celebration of the “global imagination” in the eyes of James Baldwin, Afro-American expatriate writer of the 1950s and 1960s in Paris.

Geoff Gilbert at Cornell, 3-4 March

Geoff Gilbert will be reading poetry and talking at a conference at Cornell University on 3-4 march, and would love to see any alumns there.

Details on the Cornell University Society for the Humanities Website.

Dan Gunn will be in New York, Sunday 20 Feb 2011

Dan Gunn will be in New York during the February break and will be sharing news and a drink with CL alums on Sunday the 20th. Please do join us from 7 p.m. at:

http://www.sohogrand.com/grand-bar-lounge-0

Dan