Franke Lectures in the Humanities

Rich Blint, Pratt Institute
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 | 5:30 pm
Ed Pavlić, University of Georgia
Thursday, October 13, 2016 | 5:30 pm
Director Karen Thorsen
Thursday, September 22, 2016 | 5:30 pm
Windham-Campbell prize winner Hilton Als in conversation with Jacqueline Goldsby
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 | 2:30 pm

Map of a Vanished Town: Recollecting the Palestinian Past through Biography

Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century, a biography of Taha Muhammad Ali, published by Yale University Press. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation, Raritan, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, New York Newsday, World Literature Today, and on the World Service of the BBC.

Spatial Thinking

Tversky taught at Hebrew University and at Stanford University, where she is emerita professor of psychology. Much of her work involves human perception of space and explores topics such as memory, categorization and language; the metaphorically spatial, especially time and event perception and cognition; and applications, notably diagrams, interfaces, design and visual communication. Her recent articles include “Visualspatial Reasoning,” “Some Ways that Graphics Communicate,” “What Do Sketches Say About Thinking?” and “Multiple Mental Spaces.”

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Ms. Nordstrom’s principal areas of interest are the anthropology of war and peace, illegal economies and power, gender, globalization, and culture theory. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in warzones worldwide, with long-term interests in Southern Africa and South Asia. Her academic books include Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World (2007) and Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the 21st Century (2004). She has received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the John D. and Catherine T.

“Romanesque and Gothic as Biblical Architecture”

Mr. Cahn is the author of The Romanesque Wooden Doors of Auvergne; Masterpieces: Chapters on the History of an Idea; and Romanesque Bible Illumination; and numerous articles. He has been the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, and is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Here, Mr. Cahn, Carnegie Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale, delivers the first Franke Lecture in the 2010 series, “The Age of Cathedrals.” Mr. Cahn discusses Romanesque and Gothic as self-consciously biblical architectural forms.

"Guibert de Nogent and His Demons"

Prof. Rubenstein is a historian of medieval intellectual and cultural life in Europe during the 11th and 12th centuries. He is the author of “Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind” and co-editor of “Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200,” among other works. Prof. Rubenstein received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007.

The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris: Kingship, Crusading, and Leg

In her 2010 Franke Lecture, Alyce Jordan speaks about the Sainte-Chapelle as an activated liturgical and royal space and how and why Louis the Ninth’s chapel proved such a successful vehicle for the articulation of his own monarchic agenda. Professor Jordan’s research focuses on medieval stained glass and questions of narrative, identity, and representation. Her book Visualizing Kingship in the Windows of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris applies contemporary rhetorical theory and practices to better understand the monument and posits a radical re-envisioning of the original ensemble.

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