Selected Lectures/Organized And Introduced

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SELECTED LECTURES/ORGANIZED AND INTRODUCED:

1. 27 April 2005: prof. David Cowart (University of South Carolina) on American Fiction.
2. 28 April 2008: prof. Hugh Silverman (Stony Brook University), “Being Postmodern Plural and The Sense of the World: From Plato to The Matrix”. The lecture focuses on how to think community as a singular plural in the postmodern plural as an articulation of the ‘sense of the world’ (Jean-Luc Nancy) and as demonstrated in the film The Matrix.
3. 26 November 2008: prof. Valerie Miner, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research (Stanford University), “Trespass and Settlement: Crossing the Gender Frontier in the American West”.
4. 5 May 2011: prof. Paul Levitt (University of Colorado at Boulder), “The Narrator as Hero in The Great Gatsby.”
5. 19 May 2011: prof. John T. Matthews, 2010-11 Fulbright Lecturer & Professor, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University-Prague (Boston University), “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Problem of the South in American Literary Imagination”.
6. 3 December 2014: prof. Barbara Ladd, Winter semester Fulbright Professor, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University-Prague (Emory University), “Beyond the Plantation: Race and Class at the Edge of the Swamp”.
7. 8 December 2014: prof. Victor Castellani, Associate Professor of Classics & Humanities; Chair, Dept of Languages and Literatures, University of Denver, “Tennessee Williams: The Kindness of Strangers and the Harshness of Kin”.
8. 9 March 2015: dr. James Deutsch, Program Curator, Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage; Adjunct Professor, George Washington University, “Psychoanalytical Approaches to Folklore”.
9. 18 May 2017: prof. Jennifer Riddle Harding, Summer semester Fulbright Professor, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University-Prague (Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania), “Puns in American Literature and Culture”.
10. Cancelled 2020: prof. David Hicks, Summer semester Fulbright Professor, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University (Regis University, Denver, Colorado).
11. Cancelled 2022: prof. David Hicks, Summer semester Fulbright Professor, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University, Regis University, Denver, Colorado).