Piet Mondrain
The Department of French & Italian
presents a lecture by
Lawrence Kritzman
Hauntological Mater and Sartre's Family Romance
Friday March
2, 2007
3:30 pm
College Arts & Humanities
Institute
1211 E. Atwater Ave.
Lawrence D. Kritzman is Rosenwald Research Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College in Dartmouth, New Hampshire, where he also serves as Director of the Institute of European Studies. His areas of research include 16th century French literature and culture, European philosophy and critical thought of the 20th century, and Jewish Studies. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) and The Fabulous Imagination: The Mind's Eye in Montaigne's Essays (forthcoming, Columbia University Press), among other books. He is also editor of (and contributor to) The Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006). In 2000, Professor Kritzman was awarded the Ordre du Mérite National by French President Jacques Chirac, the second highest civilian honor in France.
Sponsored by the departments of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, French and Italian, West European Studies and Renaissance Studies. Lecture to by followed by discussion and refreshments.
If you have a disability and need assistance, accommodations can be made to meet most needs. Please call 855-5458
