b2 would like the benefit of “the wisdom of the crowd.” Should we expand from a tri-quarterly to a full quarterly? And if so, what new topics and materials should we cover?
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Donald E. Pease — Wins the top award from the ASA — Congratulations!
The Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize honors lifetime achievement
in and contribution to the field of American Studies. Each year’s
prize committee is instructed to consider afresh the meaning of a
“lifetime contribution to American Studies.” The definitions of terms
like “contribution” and even of “American Studies” remain open,
healthily contested, and thus renewed.The 2012 prizewinner is Donald Pease, Dartmouth College.
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The Humanities and Neurosciences
b2 took its first steps towards organizing symposia, lectures, and publications on The Humanities and Neurosciences. Lots of help from some distinguished Pittsburgh scientists and the visiting Wlad Godzich. More news to come, including a new page on this site.
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Pseudophilia, Truthiness, and the University
Wlad Godzich continued his series of lectures and seminars at Pitt on Tuesday evening with an important historical and theoretical analysis of truth, knowledge, the university, and the limitations of neoliberalism.
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Audio Links to the Sovereignty Seminar of November 3, 2012 at the University of Pittsburgh
Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara/Cairo: Triangulating New Prerogative Subjects in Egypt’s Brotherhood State, and the “Sha’abiya” of New Popular Sovereignty Alternatives
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Wlad Godzich, UC Santa Cruz: Sovereignty and University
click this link
Tony Bogues, Brown University: Popular Sovereignty and the Practices of Freedom: Or How Do We Make a New Beginning? Notes towards working through a Conundrum
Ronald Judy, University of Pittsburgh: Restless Freedom and the sources (masādir) of siyāda sha’abiya: the Tunisian Question
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The Sovereignty Seminar
see the b2 Face Book page for some running reports on the talks in this event.
