题目：Humanities as Vocation? Liberal Arts Education and the “Crisis of the Humanities” in the United States

演讲人：Russell Berman 教授，美国斯坦福大学外尔特·海斯人文学科讲座教授，北美现代语言协会(MLA)前任主席，国际新左派权威刊物TELOS主编

时间：2013年6月27日（星期四）晚7:00– 8:30

地点：清华大学文南楼116会议室

主办：清华大学外国语言文学系 清华大学比较文学与文化研究中心

演讲者简介：Russell Berman holds the Walter A. Haas Professorship in the Humanities at Stanford University, with appointments in the Departments of Comparative Literature and German Studies. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He received his B.A. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis; he also studied at the University of Munich and the Free University of Berlin. He has written widely on German and Comparative LIterature, especially with regard to the traditions of Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School. Some of his publications includeThe Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma, Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture, andFiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty and Western Culture. He served in 2011 as President of the Modern Language Association, and he is editor of the journalTelos.