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Sawyer Seminar, “Disputation: Arguing In and Out of the University”
Schedule
All sessions are from 3:30-6:30 pm at UCLA in Royce Hall, Room 306, unless otherwise noted. A copy of the program for the entire series can be downloaded at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/sawyer_seminar_program_07-08.pdf.
In advance of each seminar date, readings for each session are posted online at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/disputation_readings/index.html. You will need to obtain the user name and password from the Center's office to access these files. Please call us at 310-825-1880 or email cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu for the login information. Summaries of each session are posted on the readings page after the meeting date. 
October 18, 2007
“Disputation: Greek Roots”
Catherine Atherton (UCLA), David Blank (UCLA), Sean Kelsey (UCLA). Readings available.
October 22, 2007
“Qu’ranic Roots: Jadal and Disputation in Islam”
Tony Street (University of Cambridge), Hossein Ziai (UCLA) — in Royce 314. Readings available.
November 6, 2007
“Biblical Roots: Talmud, Disputation and the Torah”
Elliot Dorff (American Jewish University), William M. Schniedewind (UCLA), Howard Wettstein (UC Riverside) — from 4-7 pm. Readings available.
November 13, 2007
“Gilbert Crispin: The Disputation of a Jew with a Christian”
Steven Kruger (Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY), Howard Wettstein (UC Riverside). Readings available.
November 20, 2007
“Ancient Church Councils: How formal were they, and was there discussion?”
Thomas Graumann (University of Cambridge). Readings available.
November 27, 2007
“Disputing Love: Abelard, Heloise and Bernard of Clairvaux”
Constant Mews (Monash University). Readings available.
December 4, 2007
“The Owl and the Nightingale: Philosophy and the Female Voice”
Christopher Cannon (New York University). Readings available.
January 29, 2008
“John Trevisa v. Lord Berkeley: Controlling the Language of Dispute”
Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania). Readings available.
February 5, 2008
“After the Condemnations of 1277: Confining Disputation”
Alex Novikoff (St. Joseph’s University), Hans Thijssen (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen). Readings available.
February 12, 2008
“Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls and the Good Parliament of 1376”
W. Mark Ormrod (University of York), Henry Ansgar Kelly (UCLA). Readings available.
February 19, 2008
“Daring to Write Against Philosophers: The Prostitute as Disputant”
Karen Sullivan (Bard College). Readings available.
February 26, 2008
“Pico’s 900 Theses: Disputation Unbounded”
Giulio Busi (Institut für Judaistik, Freie Universität Berlin). Readings available.
March 11, 2008
“Latin v. Greek at the Council of Florence”
John Monfasani (State University of New York, Albany). Readings available.
April 8, 2008
“Luther and the Leipzig Disputation: Dissent Disseminated”
Erika Rummel (Emmanuel College, University of Toronto). Readings available.
April 15, 2008
“Healing from History: Psychoanalytic and Sociological Considerations on Disputation and Reconciliation in the Modern Context” -- (formerly titled “Community Repair, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Political and Sociological Considerations”)
Jeffrey Prager (UCLA). Readings available.
April 22, 2008
“Raphael’s Disputa: Adoration and Disputation”
Marcia Hall (Temple), Franco Mormando (Boston College), Joanna Woods-Marsden (UCLA). Readings available.
April 29, 2008
“The Valladolid Junta of 1550-51: Native American Rights Disputed in Spain”
José M. Hernández (UNED), Carole Goldberg (UCLA), Anthony Pagden (UCLA). Readings available.
May 8, 2008
“Galileo: Scientific Disputation as Courtly Performance”
Mario Biagioli (Harvard University). Readings available.
May 15, 2008
“The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus: Disputing What Hell Is”
David Riggs (Stanford), Michael J.B. Allen (UCLA), Debora Shuger (UCLA). Readings available.
May 20, 2008 CANCELLED
“Epilogue: Heidegger, Cassirer and the Fracturing of Modern Western Philosophy”Michael Friedman (Stanford)
Advance registration not required. No fee to attend. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA parking services kiosk. Driving directions are available on the UCLA website at
www.ucla.edu/map/driving.html.
Next page: Introduction to Disputation: Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University
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