2004
Humanities Symposium
at
Loyola College in Maryland

Events

February

16th     Apocalypse Now Redux,
Francis Coppola, 1979, USA
7:00,  McManus Theater

17th     Keynote: "Return to the Jungle?"  
Jeffrey Tayler
author of
Facing the Congo:
A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
       
            7:00 pm, McManus Theater
 

23rd      "Heart of Darkness Aloud"
Adapted by James Bunzli 
Assistant Professor, Fine Arts Department,
Loyola College in Maryland
 7:30, McManus Theater

March

11th  "Colonial Elites in Greco-Roman Egypt"
Kent Rigsby
Professor, Classical Studies
Duke University
5:30, Andrew White Student Center 4th Floor Programming Room

18th     "A Common Humanity?: A Consideration of Heart of Darkness"
Carolyn Medine
Associate Professor of Religion and Literature,
University of Georgia, Athens
 4:30, Sellinger VIP Lounge  

29th     "Demonic Democracy: Europe's Heart of Darkness"
Simon During
Professor, English Department,
Johns Hopkins University,
 4:30, Andrew White Student Center 4th Floor Programming Room

31st   "Beauty from the Horror"
 DaCamera Performers, Ernest Liotti, Director
Pieces by Brahms, Britten, & Bernstein, plus
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with Kyle Coughlin
 7:30, Alumni Chapel                 

April

1st   "Genocide in Africa: The Methods Behind the Madness"
Bill Berkeley
Journalist and Author
Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
7:00, Andrew White Student Center 4th Floor Programming Room

2nd   "Primitivism, Modernism and  Renovation of Culture"
Patricia Leighten
Professor, Art History Department,
Duke University
1:30, Knott Hall B03

19th    Derek Walcott
"Moral Radiance at the Heart of Darkness"
Poet and Playwright
1992 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature
7:00, McGuire Hall

 

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