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Arizona Statue University The Institute for Humanities Research 2008 Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Michael Bérubé - "The Humanities and the Limits of the Human"

Date and Time: Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 7:00pm MST

Location: Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Armstrong Hall, Room 105, Arizona State University, 1100 S. McAllister Ave., Tempe, AZ, USA 85287

Description:
From flyer [PDF]:

Have critical theory, neurology, bioethics, and disability studies transformed what it means to be human? If so, how are we now to understand the scope and concerns of the humanities?

Distinguished IHR Lecturer for 2008, Michael Bérubé, grapples with those questions by considering what such academic advances and their interpretation in contemporary popular culture tell us about being human in the 21st century… and how the humanities must respond.

From website:

The IHR is pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Bérubé, Paterno Family Professor in Literature, Department of English, and Co-Director, Disability Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University, as the 2008 IHR Distinguished Lecturer.

Michael Bérubé is the author of six books to date: Marginal Forces / Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon (Cornell University Press, 1992); Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (Verso, 1994); Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (Pantheon, 1996; paper edition, Vintage, 1998); The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (New York University Press, 1998); What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education (W. W. Norton, 2006) and Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). He is also the editor of The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies (Blackwell, 2004), and, with Cary Nelson, of Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (Routledge, 1995). Bérubé has written over 150 essays for a wide variety of academic journals such as American Quarterly, the Yale Journal of Criticism, Social Text, Modern Fiction Studies, and the minnesota review, as well as more popular venues such as Harper's, the New Yorker, Dissent, The New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Nation, and the Boston Globe.

Life As We Know It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 1996 and was chosen as one of the best books of the year (on a list of seven) by Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio.

The event is free but seating is limited. Please send your reservation request (name, number of attendees, contact information) to ihr@asu.edu or call 480-965-3000. If you have problems with the ihr@asu.edu account please send your request to carol.withers@asu.edu.

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Note: Free surface parking available for attendees in Lot 44. Additional visitor pay parking in the Rural Road parking structure (entrance on Terrace).