English Speaker Feb. 27: Bruce Robbins (Columbia), "The Absence of Imagination"

[John Savarese]

Please join the English Language and Literature Speakers Series for our second talk of the Winter term. We are pleased to welcome Bruce Robbins (Columbia University), who will give a talk entitled “The Absence of Imagination”—a discussion of constructionism, with an eye toward the thought of Immanuel Kant and theories of narrative. The talk will take place at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 27, in Hagey Hall 150.

Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Among his works are Feeling Global (1999), Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture (1993), Upward Mobility and the Common Good (2007), and most recently Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence (2012). A companion volume, The Beneficiary: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Inequality, is in preparation. You can read more about Professor Robbins’s work, and select publications, at his faculty website: http://www.columbia.edu/~bwr2001/publications.html.

The department’s Speakers Series events are open to the university community and the public. Please feel free to circulate this email and the attached poster widely. We hope to see many of you there!

Warm regards,

John Savarese
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
University of Waterloo
https://uwaterloo.ca/english/people-profiles/john-savarese


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