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Join Us for Writing Between the Lines — A Three-Day Exploration of Print, Censorship, and Literature

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You are warmly invited to join “Writing Between the Lines – Revisiting Print, Censorship, and Literature,” a three-day series of workshops, panels, and discussions featuring Duke and DKU faculty. The event explores how ideas, power, and creativity intersect through the written word — across literature, history, and religion.Wednesday Oct. 29  in LIB 3109

15:00–18:00 Methodology Workshops

In these workshops, Duke and DKU faculty will discuss how to do research with primary sources from the Humanities fields of literature, history, and religion, and offer students a hands-on experience with research methodology.

 

15:00–15:50 – LITERATURE: Shai Ginsburg (Duke University), Selina Lai-Henderson (DKU)

16:00–16:50 – HISTORY: Malachi Hacohen (Duke University), Kolleen Guy (DKU)

17:00–17:50 – RELIGION: Daniel Herskowitz (Duke University), Rasoul Namazi (DKU)

Students can sign up for any (or all) of them. Scan the QR code in the poster to sign up.

 

19:00 Dinner with interested students. Scan the QR code in the poster to sign up.

 

Thursday Oct. 30 in LIB 2107

 

Panel: The Limits of Reading [9:15-10:30]

Chair: Adrien Pouille

Shai Ginsburg on Heidegger and the boundaries between what could be made public and what had to remain concealed.

Yitzhak Lewis on the contribution of literary theory to understanding the textual engagements of political censorship.

 

Panel: The Limits of Representation [10:45-12:00]

Chair: Stephanie Anderson

Malachi Hacohen on tensions in Jewish history between affirming Jewish views in confrontation with opponents and sages’ counsel to self-censor and limit expectations. Which represents the Jewish future?

Selina Lai-Henderson on the transnational visions of “blackness” and its racial discourses in Langston Hughes and his involvement in translation vis-a-vis the Chinese literary scene.

 

Panel: The Limits of Writing [15:00-16:15]

Chair: Ben Van Overmeire

Daniel Herskowitz on the promises and perils of self-censorship in the context of the Jewish involvement in the second Vatican Council (1962-1965).

Rasoul Namazi on Leo Strauss’s esoteric methods of reading and reformulating classical texts as vehicles for his own philosophical reflections.

 

Friday Oct. 31

Roundtable: “Print, Censorship, and Literature in the 21st Century” [11:30–13:30 – Water Pavilion]

Roundtable conversation with: Shai Ginsburg, Yitzhak Lewis, Selina Lai-Henderson, Malachi Hacohen, Rasoul Namazi, Daniel Herskowitz

We look forward to seeing you there!