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05/01/2012 - 10:00am - 05/22/2012 - 12:00pm
Humanities Seminars Course: Contemporary Law and Policy: Four Perspectives

Humanities Seminars courses take place in the Dorothy Rubel room at the Helen S. Schaefer Building located at 1508 E. Helen St. (at Vine Ave.)

When Oliver Wendell Holmes declared that “the life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience,” he meant that law is a messy and imperfect invention reflecting the human...
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05/11/2012 - 9:00am - 05/23/2012 - 12:00pm
Humanities Seminars Course: Shakespeare in Print and Film

Humanities Seminars courses take place in the Dorothy Rubel room at the Helen S. Schaefer Building located at 1508 E. Helen St. (at Vine Ave.)

How do Shakespeare and filmmakers who adapt his plays engage their audiences, construct meaning, and enable us to understand more fully our own culture and ourselves? This seminar will deepen our...
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05/18/2012 - 3:00pm - 05/20/2012 - 10:00pm
Poetry Off the Page: An International Symposium at the University of Arizona Poetry Center

The University of Arizona Poetry Center
1508 E. Helen Street

Additional Location:

The Rogue Theater
300 E. University Blvd, Suite 150

The University of Arizona Poetry Center's third international symposium, Poetry Off the Page, promises to be "more visceral than conceptual" and will gather poets for whom the stage and...
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06/06/2012 - 9:00am - 06/27/2012 - 12:00pm
Humanities Seminars Course: Homer's Odyssey

Humanities Seminars courses take place in the Dorothy Rubel room at the Helen S. Schaefer Building located at 1508 E. Helen St. (at Vine Ave.)

The Odyssey gives us an adventure story of a Greek hero returning to his home in Ithaca after the Trojan War.  This could be a straightforward journey lasting three or four days at most. ...
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07/09/2012 - 9:00am - 07/30/2012 - 11:00pm
Humanities Seminars Course: American Vaudeville: Forgotten Stars of the Footlights

Humanities Seminars courses take place in the Dorothy Rubel room at the Helen S. Schaefer Building located at 1508 E. Helen St. (at Vine Ave.)

Two years ago the Main Library of the University of Arizona was given a massive donation of original collections from the American Vaudeville Museum by its curators Frank Cullen and Donald McNeilly....
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07/10/2012 - 9:00am - 07/31/2012 - 12:00pm
Humanities Seminars Course: Dante's Purgatorio

Humanities Seminars courses take place in the Dorothy Rubel room at the Helen S. Schaefer Building located at 1508 E. Helen St. (at Vine Ave.)

Using the recent translation by Jean and Robert Hollander, we will deal with Dante’s views on human nature as represented in his Purgatorio.  We shall discuss the nature of sin: how it is...
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