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MARTA SUTTON WEEKS DISTINGUISHED VISiTOR 2008

Elaine Scarry
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University

Poetry and Deliberation

About the Speaker

Elaine Scarry is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. She is the author of numerous works renowned for their scholarly daring, including On Beauty and Being Just (1999); Dreaming by the Book (1999); Resisting Representation (1994), and The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World (1985). Her interests include theory of representation, the language of physical pain, and the structure of verbal material making in art, science, and the law.

Program

Monday, February 4, 7:00 p.m.
Lecture
The Call To Poetry
Levinthal Hall
Stanford Humanities Center

Monday, February 11, 5:00 p.m.
Lecture
The Muses in Homer & Hobbes
Levinthal Hall
Stanford Humanities Center

Monday, February 25, 5:00 p.m.
Lecture
Plato and The Poets
Levinthal Hall
Stanford Humanities Center


Seminars

Wednesday, February 13, 4:00 p.m
Wednesday, February 20, 4:00 p.m
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford University