The Heyman Center has released their Spring 2010 events schedule, and it’s highlighted by not one, but two appearances by Mr. Right Side of History himself, Joseph Stiglitz. He’ll be part of “The Continuing Financial Crisis: Perspectives from the North and the South” on March 25th with Prabhat Patnaik, and Jomo Kwame Sundaram, and “Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn’t Add Up,” along with Nancy Folbre and Geoffrey Heal on April 19th.

Others that stand out:

• “The Great American University: Is Its Preeminence at Risk?” Our guess is “maybe,” but Geoffrey Stone (current editor of the Inalienable Rights series), Richard Axel (2004 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), and former CU provost Jonathan Cole discuss. February 17th.
• Eric Sundquist delivers this year’s Lionel Trilling Seminar, “Obama, King, Ralph Ellison, and the American Dream.” Kenneth Warren and Glenn Loury are the respondents. April 15.
• Jamaica Kincaid (Important Author) gives a reading followed by an interview. April 22nd.
• M.H. Abrams, who conceived and edited the freaking Norton Anthology of English Literature, will lecture on “The Fourth Dimension of Poetry.” April 28th.

Full email after the jump.THE HEYMAN CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
Schedule of Events, Spring 2010

Admission to all Heyman Center events is free and open to the public.
Unless noted below, no registration necessary.
Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
For more information, please visit www.heymancenter.org.

ANTHONY GRAFTON
“Race in the Renaissance”
Thursday, 4 February 6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

PETER GALISON
“Blacked-Out Spaces: Freud and War Censorship”
Thursday, 11 February 6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

BLAIR WORDEN
“Puritanism, Liberty, and the English Civil Wars”
Monday, 15 February 6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

JONATHAN COLE, RICHARD ATKINSON, RICHARD AXEL, and GEOFFREY STONE
“The Great American University: Is Its Preeminence at Risk?”
Wednesday, 17 February 6:00pm
Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center

STEVEN SHAPIN
“The Ivory Tower: A History on an Idea about Knowledge and Politics”
Thursday, 4 March 6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

SUSAN SULEIMAN
“Jewish Identity and the ‘Jewish Question’”
Monday, 8 March 6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

JOSEPH STIGLITZ, PRABHAT PATNAIK, and JOMO KWAME SUNDARAM
“The Continuing Financial Crisis: Perspectives from the North and the
South”
Thursday, 25 March 12:00pm
Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought
REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
To register visit http://heymancenter.org/events.php?id=166.
Unclaimed Seats will be released to the public at 11:50pm.

DAVID HARVEY, PRABHAT PATNAIK, and DUNCAN FOLEY
Discussant: SANJAY REDDY
“Marx or Keynes or…?”
Wednesday, 31 March 6:15pm
Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought
REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
To register visit http://heymancenter.org/events.php?id=167.
Unclaimed Seats will be released to the public at 6:05pm.

PETER BURKE
“The Republic of Letters: Survival or Revival?”
Monday, 5 April 6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

DOMINICK LaCAPRA
The Annual “History and Theory” Lecture:
“Historical and Literary Approaches to the ‘Final Solution’”
Monday, 12 April 8:00pm
501 Schermerhorn Hall
Co-sponsored by the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History

ERIC SUNDQUIST
Respondents: Kenneth Warren and Glenn Loury
The Lionel Trilling Seminar:
“Obama, King, Ralph Ellison, and the American Dream”
Thursday, 15 April 6:15pm
Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center

JOSEPH STIGLITZ, NANCY FOLBRE, and GEOFFREY HEAL
“Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn’t Add Up”
Monday, 19 April 4:30pm
Location TBA
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought
REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
To register visit: http://heymancenter.org/events.php?id=173.
Unclaimed Seats will be released to the public at 4:20pm.

JAMAICA KINCAID
A reading followed by an interview
Thursday, 22 April 6:15pm
Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center

CATHERINE GALLAGHER
“Telling It Like It Wasn’t: the Actual History of Counterfactual
History”
Monday, 26 April 6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

M.H. ABRAMS
“The Fourth Dimension of Poetry”
Wednesday, 28 April 6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature

GLENN MOST
“Four Ways to Misunderstand Euripides’ Medea”
Thursday, 29 April 6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

LINDA COLLEY
“Writing Constitutions into British and Global Histories”
Monday, 3 May 6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought