Events and Lectures
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Dessert Lecture Series
Each semester, the European Cultural Studies program invites a renowned guest speaker to campus to present their work to Brandeis students and faculty.
Spring 2023 Chocolate Cake Lecture
Trace, Touch, and Symbol: Philosophical Issues in Early Art
Featuring C. Allen Speight, Professor of Philosophy at Boston University
4-5:30pm, Tuesday, March 21, 2023, Shiffman 123
Fall 2022 Lemon Cake Lecture
The Hunter and His Game: Seeking Nature in Turgenev's Stories
Featuring Thomas P. Hodge, Chair of Russian Studies at Wellesley College
2:30-3:50pm, Monday, October 3, 2022, Shiffman 123
Past Events
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Trip to the MFA
With the German and ECS UDRs, including a guided tour of the new Center for Netherlandish Art!
Fall 2021 Lemon Cake Lecture
Featuring: Andrew Kaufman
Spring 2019 Lemon Cake Lecture
Publishing World Literature in the Age of Nationalism
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Meike G. Werner (Vanderbilt University)
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April 15, 2019, Shiffman 219
Spring 2018 ECS Lemon Cake Lecture
Philosophy and the Enigma of Early Art
Spring 2018 ECS Chocolate Cake Lecture
A New Aeneid
Fall 2018 ECS Chocolate Cake Lecture
Radical Thinking
Spring 2017 ECS Chocolate Cake Lecture
Kierkegaard’s Response to Hegel’s Interpretation of Antigone
Spring 2017 ECS Lemon Cake Lecture
‘But little ... that I can recognize’: Challenges of Writing the Civil War
Spring 2016 ECS Lemon Cake Lecture
Dostoevsky’s Concept of Unity: Pro and Contra
Fall 2015 ECS Chocolate Cake Lecture
Osip Mandelstam and Visual Experience
- Featuring Andrew Kahn, Professor of Russian Literature, University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Nov. 17, 2015
Spring 2015 ECS Lemon Cake Lecture
Bakhtin and the Actor
Fall 2014 ECS Chocolate Cake Lecture
The Prosodic Protolanguage Hypothesis and the Origins of Poetry