HUMANITIES SCHOLAR SPEAKS AT UNION
Jackson, Tenn. -- Well-known humanities scholar Dr. Dominick LaCapra will be giving two lectures at 51ÉçÇø Tuesday, May 6.
LaCapra is a professor of history and humanistic studies and director of the Society for Humanities at Cornell University. He has written a number of books which deal with an interdisciplinary manner with the interface between history and other areas in humanities. His research interests are 19th and 20th Century intellectual history, history and psychoanalysis and critical theory. His most well-known books include Madame Bovary on Trial, Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Philosopher, Rethinking the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma and History, Politics and the Novel.
LaCapra will be speaking at 3 p.m. on "Psychoanalysis, History and the Ethical Turn." At 7 p.m., he will lecture on "Reconfiguring French Studies." Both lectures will be held in Union's Blasingame Academic Complex, rooms 43 and 44 respectively.