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2008 Ropes Lecture Series

Violence and Literature: The Humanities in a Post-9-11 World

All lectures will be held at 8:00 pm in ERC 427.

The 2008 Ropes Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati, explores the interrelations of violence and literature in a post-9/11 world and seeks to understand how human rights issues are central to the humanities.

Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008: Lecture by Porochista Khakpour, whose debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, was released in September 2007.

   Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008: Performance-Lecture by

   Heather Raffo, critically acclaimed playwright and

   author of 9 Parts of Desire.

Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008: "Untidy Corners: Torture, Narrative, and the Humanist Position" by Joseph Slaughter, whose book Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Lawis forthcoming in print this winter.

  Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008 "Of Manifestos and

  Manifesting: Professing Literature and Human Rights

  in the Age of Terror" by Elizabeth Swanson

  Goldberg, author of Beyond Terror: Gender,

  Narrative, Human Rights, which was published in 2007.

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008: "Taxonomies of Terror" by Colin Dayan, author most recently of The Story of Cruel and Unusual, which was published in 2007.