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Annual Report 2014-2015 Annual Report 2014-2015 1 Introduction PAL seeks to make a strong interdisci- plinary contribution to the humanities at Duke. In 2014-15 we worked particu- larly hard to support the writing lives of Toril Moi our graduate students. With the help of Director for PAL, 2009-present James B. Duke Professor of Literature Heather Gates (History) we co-ordinated and Romance Studies and sponsored writing groups for over 50 graduate students. We ran a monthly series of workshops on writing. In spring, our writing events culminated in PAL’s third “Writing Is Thinking” Workshop, headlined by Verlyn Klinkenborg. PAL 2014-15 PAL organized a reading group on Han- in numbers nah Arendt. A panel of graduate stu- Writing Groups dents responded to Mark Greif’s presen- 10 tation of his book The Age of the Crisis of Man. We sponsored talks by our young international visitors, Salla Peltonen and 6 Years of PAL Corina Stan, with responses by Duke at Duke graduate students. PAL’s Graduate Cer- tificate continues to attract students 23 Speakers from across the humanities. PAL also launched a new series on in- tellectual women. In the fall we had a 2 Graduate symposium on on Mme du Châtelet and student parties Mary Wollstonecraft; in spring one on Hannah Arendt. 2 As usual, we sponsored lectures in In 2014-15 we welcomed the first philosophy and the arts: The distin- two PAL/FHI Seminars on “Concepts, guished art historian Keith Moxey Figures, Art Forms,” sponsored by the shared his thoughts on time and art, Mellon Foundation: Bruce Matthews (one of Duke’s Hu- • Whose Kafka? led by Saskia Zi- manities Writ Large olkowski and Kata Gellen. fellows) presented “PAL seeks to make a • The Novel, led by Nancy Schelling’s vision of strong interdisciplinary Armstrong and Erdag the University, and contribution to the hu- Goknar. the renowned literary manities at Duke” In 2015-16 we will con- critic Derek Attridge tinue the “Intellectual discussed literature Women” series, sponsor in history. We ended the year with more writing-focused events, and, a symposium on the philosopher J. not least, host PAL’s fourth Young L. Austin with Sandra Laugier (Sor- Scholars Workshop on literature, eth- bonne), Estelle Ferrarèse (Stras- ics, and philosophy, with Niklas Fors- bourg), and Sarah Beckwith (Duke). berg (Uppsala) and Nora Hämäläinen On the invitation of then Dean Laurie (Helsinki). Patton, PAL set up a working group I hope to see many of you at our on Humanities education for under- events this year! graduates, and sponsored a sympo- sium on teaching in the humanities October 2015 today, with Paula Findlen (Stanford), Sean Kelly (Harvard), and James Toril Moi Director of PAL Simpson (Harvard). 3 PAL 2014-2015 4 Index Introduction 1 Intellectual Women Series 6 PAL Lectures 7 PAL Symposia 8 PAL for Graduate Students 10 Writing is Thinking 14 PAL Forums 16 Co-sponsored events 18 PAL and FHI seminars 20 Graduate Student Staff 21 5 Intellectual Women Series October 2 The Making and Unmaking of Women’s Intellectual Reputations Mme du Châtelet and Mary Wollstonecraft Karen Detlefsen Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Andrew Janiak Philosophy, Duke Angela Maione Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities Bard College April 9 Hannah Arendt Lori Marso Political Science, Gender Studies Union College Ella Myers Political Science, Gender Studies University of Utah 6 PAL Lectures October 23 Imagining the Time of Art’s Histories A lecture by Keith Moxey Moxey is Barbara Novak Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University. He is the author of Visual Time: The Image in History (2013). November 13 Envisioning the Modern University: Schelling’s Jena Lectures A lecture by Bruce Matthews Matthews was a 2014-2015 Humanities Writ Large Visiting Fellow at Duke. He discussed the fragmen- tation and specialization of the disciplines within the university. January 15 The Work of Literature: Event, Invention, History A Lecture by Derek Attridge Attridge presented a section of his forthcoming book, “The Work of Literature.” Attridge teaches at the University of York and is a Fellow of the British Academy. 7 PAL Symposia January 30 Undergraduate Education and the Humanities A Symposium for humanities faculty Paula Findlen History, Stanford Sean Kelly Philosophy, Harvard James Simpson English, Harvard PAL was invited by Dean Laurie Patton to be the home for a conversation with Duke Humanities Faculty on undergraduate cur- riculum and the humanities. PAL hosted a symposium and faculty discussion with experts from other institu- tions that run special liberal arts programs. A committee of faculty members are work- ing on a proposal for an intensive liberal arts program for Duke undergraduates. 8 April 21 J.L. Austin now A Symposium Sandra Laugier Philosophy, Paris Sorbonne Estelle Ferrarese Political Science, Strasburg Sarah Beckwith English, Duke 9 PAL for Graduate Students September 3 Happy Hour kick-off party At PAL’s first party of the year, we introduced the PAL Writing Groups and the PAL Certificate to the graduate student commu- nity. We served signature cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at this fun bash. Running from Fall 2014 to Spring 2015 Writing Groups PAL hosted 10 graduate student writing groups with more than 50 participants. Groups crossed disciplinary boundaries and across the stages of graduate coursework and writing. Running Spring 2015 Reading Group on Hannah Arendt A community of graduate students and faculty read and dis- cussed from The Portable Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, and other Arendt texts Responses to invited speakers Six graduate students from various departments presented or re- sponded at PAL’s events in 2014-2015: Salla Peltonen (Women’s Studies, PAL Visiting Scholar), Justin Mitchell (English), Myles Oldershaw (English), Jacob Soule (Literature), Brian Valentyn (English, Thompson Writing Program) and Heather Wallace (Phi- losophy) 10 PAL strives to provide a relaxed yet intellectually exciting at- mosphere, in which graduate students are invited to come to- gether across disciplinary boundaries to explore questions of common interest. You don’t have to be committed to any of PAL’s core fields to find PAL a welcoming space. PAL encour- ages graduate students to come together to read and write, and to discuss works of intellectual interest in many disciplines. 11 PAL Graduate Certificate The PAL Graduate Certificate seeks to connect the study of specific works of art and specific art forms (e.g., literature, music, theater, painting, film) to ques- tions concerning creativity, the nature of specific art forms, the relationship be- tween knowledge and art, and between ethics and aesthetics. The Certificate aims to make students conversant with philosophical reflections on literature and the arts. The Certificate seeks to foster an understanding of the historical nature of different art forms, and of aesthetics and philosophy, and to encourage exploration of philosophy, art and literature from different historical periods. The Certificate is designed to provide students with a firm grounding in the research skills required to enable them to intervene in contemporary debates within the field and to encourage them to consider their own field of study from an inter- or cross-disciplinary approach. For more information www.dukepal.org/certificate 12 PAL Graduate Certificate Steering Committee Sarah Beckwith Owen Flanagan Neil McWilliam Professor of English and James B. Duke Professor Walter H. Annenberg Pro- Theater Studies; Chair of of Philosophy; Professor of fessor of Art History Theater Studies Neurobiology Toril Moi Thomas Pfau Jacqueline Waeber James B. Duke Professor Alice Mary Baldwin Associate Professor of of Literature and Romance Professor and Eads Family Music Studies; Professor of Philos- Professor of English and ophy, English and Theater German; DGS-German studies Studies 13 Writing is Thinking PAL Writing is Thinking 2015 PAL’s 3rd Biennial Writing is Thinking included our usual two-day workshop for the Duke community. This year we also introduced Graduate Student Writing Groups and monthly workshops on the writing process. We had a record number of partici- pants with more than 50 applications to join writing groups! Graduate Students writing groups PAL supported over 50 graduate students in forming in writing groups. We hosted in-person feedback groups and online accountability groups. Participants came from a variety of departments including History, Music, English, Literature, Cultural Anthropology, and Philosophy. Workshop series on writing Workshop leaders: • How to Start a Writing Group • Kristen Neuschel • The Writing Process • Jennifer Ahern-Dodson • How to move from Research to Drafting • Sarah Beckwith • Several Short Sentences on Writing •Toril Moi 14 Workshop with Verlyn Klinkenborg Verlyn Klinkenborg was Writing is Think- ing’s 2015 keynote speaker. Klinkenborg is the author of Several Short Sentences About Writing (2012), and More Scenes From the Rural Life (2013). He is the re- cipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow- ship and was a member of the New York Times editorial board from 1997 to 2013. He teaches at Yale University. Mr. Klinkenborg lives in rural New York state. During his visit to PAL, Klinkenborg met individually with participants in PAL Writing Groups and made two presenta- tions: March 19 The Writer at Work March 20 The Language of Place Supported by Graduate students read Klinkenborg’s book “Several Short Sentences on Writing” (graciously provided by the Thompson Writing Program) in the semester prior to his visit. 15 PAL Forums February 19 Reflections on the Posthuman A PAL forum with Salla Peltonen Peltonan, PAL Visiting Scholar, presented a Witt- gensteinian view on discussions of the posthuman in feminist theory. February 10 How to Live with Others A talk by PAL Visiting Scholar Corina Stan Stan presented a paper on the concept of interper- sonal distance in Barthes, Murdoch, and Orwell. 16 April 21 The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 Presentation by Mark Grief A book presentation by the author with graduate student respondents Co-sponsored by PAL and FHI November 5 Screening of Blade Runner (1982 dir.
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