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Lunch Speaker September 21st: Kris Trujillo

September 21, 2016

Lunch Speaker September 21st: Kris Trujillo

Adams House Conservatory 1:00 p.m. ALL ARE WELCOME!!

The Song of Songs and the Medieval Soundscape

Kris Trujillo is an Adams House Resident Tutor and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Rhetoric with designated emphases in critical theory and women, gender, and sexuality. Specializing in the history of Christianity, aesthetics, and queer and feminist theory, his research is interested in the cultivation of...

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Wednesday 9/14 Lunch Speaker Robert Darnton All are welcome

September 14, 2016

Lunch Speaker September 14th: Robert Darnton

1:00 p.m. Conservatory

History of Censorship

The difficulty with the history of censorship is that it looks so simple: it pits oppression against freedom of expression.  But if one looks harder, it appears more complicated—and full of surprises.  How did censors actually do their work?  How did they understand it?  And how did it fit into the surrounding social and...

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