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Sawyer Seminar, “Disputation: Arguing In and Out of the University”

Videotaped Sessions

Videotaped clips of the seminar sessions are listed on this page and will open on a new page when the link is clicked. Each clip is approximately fifteen minutes long and will begin playing automatically as it downloads. Each file size is approximately 50-60 MB. Download time will depend on the speed of your connection.

1. “Disputation: Greek Roots”
Catherine Atherton, David Blank, and Sean Kelsey; recorded October 18, 2007.

2. “Qu’ranic Roots: Jadal and Disputation in Islam”
Tony Street and Hossein Ziai; recorded October 22, 2007.

3. “Biblical Roots: Talmud, Disputation and the Torah”
Elliot Dorff , William M. Schniedewind, and Howard Wettstein; recorded November 6, 2007.

4. “Gilbert Crispin: The Disputation of a Jew with a Christian”
Steven Kruger and Howard Wettstein; recorded November 13, 2007.

5. “Ancient Church Councils: How formal were they, and was there discussion?”
Thomas Graumann; recorded November 20, 2007.

6. “Disputing Love: Abelard, Heloise, and Bernard of Clairvaux”
Constant Mews; recorded November 27, 2007.

7. “The Owl & the Nightingale: Philosophy and the Female Voice”
Christopher Cannon; recorded December 4, 2007.

8. “John Trevisa v. Lord Berkeley: Controlling the Language of Dispute”
Rita Copeland; recorded January 29, 2008.

9. “After the Condemnations of 1277; Confining Disputation”
Alex Novikoff; recorded February 5, 2008.

10. “Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls and the Good Parliament of 1376”
W. Mark Ormrod and Henry Ansgar Kelly; recorded February 12, 2008.

11. “Daring to Write Against Philosophers: The Prostitute as Disputant”
Karen Sullivan (Bard College); recorded February 19, 2008.

12. “Pico’s 900 Theses: Disputation Unbounded”
Giulio Busi (Institut für Judaistik, Freie Universität Berlin); recorded February 26, 2008.

13. “Latin v. Greek at the Council of Florence”
John Monfasani (State University of New York, Albany); recorded March 11, 2008.

14. “Luther and the Leipzig Disputation: Dissent Disseminated”
Erika Rummel (Emmanuel College, University of Toronto); recorded April 8, 2008.

15. “Healing from History: Psychoanalytic and Sociological Considerations on Disputation and Reconciliation in the Modern Context”
Jeffrey Prager (UCLA); recorded April 15, 2008.

16. “Raphael’s Disputa: Adoration and Disputation”
Marcia Hall (Temple), Franco Mormando (Boston College), Joanna Woods-Marsden (UCLA); recorded April 22, 2008.

17. “The Valladolid Junta of 1550-51: Native American Rights Disputed in Spain”
José M. Hernández (UNED), Carole Goldberg (UCLA), Anthony Pagden (UCLA); recorded April 29, 2008.

18. “Galileo: Scientific Disputation as Courtly Performance”
Mario Biagioli (Harvard University); recorded May 8, 2008.

19. “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus: Disputing What Hell Is”
David Riggs (Stanford), Michael J.B. Allen (UCLA), Debora Shuger (UCLA); recorded May 15, 2008.

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