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Heaney's series of talks continues today with "Talking Shop," at 5:30 p.m. in Emerson 105. According to organizers of the event, the audience will be given the opportunity to participate in a discussion on a literary topic of Heaney's choosing...
...only requirement imposed on Institute of Politics fellows is to lead a discussion group on a topic of our choice. Beyond that, we have the run of the University, including an open invitation to audit courses. I have settled on Samuel Huntington's course on "American National Identity" and William Gienapp's "Coming of the Civil War," and I am offering a study group on western regional politics. To me, this all fits together in a pattern which makes perfectly good sense, but I know the pattern is far less apparent to most of the people around...
...topic of regionalism, for example, is outside the mainstream of Harvard concerns, and no doubt should be. Still, at a time when various forms of regionalism--both supra-national and sub-national--are commanding increasing attention around the world, it is surprising how convinced Americans remain that our Civil War settled the question of regionalism once and for all. To me, as to many westerners, a course on challenges to American national identity would naturally include some discussion of place-based or regional challenges, but this is clearly not what brings most students to the course. Racial and ethnic strains...
...whether the answers he gave were always correct but how his questions influenced the 20th century. I'm not one of those who think we should forget about Freud entirely." Indeed, the whole brouhaha shows how difficult it is for everyone to forget about him. "The passion over this topic is amazing," says Ingrid Scholz-Strasser of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. "For a dead science, it seems pretty lively...
...Love, and Joy: Contrasting Perspectives" was the topic of discussion in the 100th Annual William Belden Noble Lecture series last night. Lecturer Armand M. Nicholi and respondent Joseph B. Martin dealt with the conflicting views of Sigmund Freud's materialism and C.S. Lewis's spirituality in relation to the lecture topic...