Colloquium Syllabus

MAPH Colloquium

Ben Callard, Hilary Strang, David Wray

Autumn 2012

Required Texts

Week 1

Sun Sep 16:

• 3:00-8:00PM Film Screening and Opening BBQ (Social Sciences 122 and Classics Quad, rain location: Classics 110)
• Film: Todd Haynes, Safe

Mon Sep 17:

• 1:00-2:20 Core Lecture
• Todd Haynes, Safe
• 2:30-3:00 Jeff McMahon, 'Entering the Conversation'

Tu Sep 18:

• 1:00-2:20 Core Lecture
• Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Wed Sep 19:

Writing Exercise distributed 

• 10:00-11:30 International Student Orientation (Required for International Students - Classics 110)
• 1:00-2:20 Core Lecture
• Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
• 2:30-4:00 Precept Groups (Cobb Hall)

Thu Sep 20:

• 12:00 noon, Writing Exercise due (MAPH office)
• 1:00-2:20 Core Lecture
• Plato, Symposium 
• 3:00-4:00 MAPH's Regenstein Library Tour
• 5:00-8:00 Art Institute of Chicago Outing

Fri Sep 21:

   First paper topic distributed 

• 10:00-11:15 Visual Resources Tour (Cochrane Woods Art Center)
• 2:30-4:00 Precept Groups (Cobb Hall)
• 4:00-6:00 MAPH Social Hour (Classics 110)  

Week 2

Autumn Quarter Registration: Mon Sep 24 – Fri Sep 28 

Mon Sep 24:

• 12:00 noon, First paper due (MAPH office)
• 1:00-2:20 Core Lecture 
• Plato, Symposium  

Tu Sep 25: No Core Class

Graduate Student Orientation Events 

• 8:30-10:00 Humanities Division Brunch and Greeting (Classics Quad)
• 10:15 Graduate Students gather on Main Quad
• 10:30 Procession into Rockefeller Chapel
• 11:00-11:45 Welcome Convocation (Rockefeller Chapel)
• 11:45-2:30 Information Fair and Lunch
• 1:00-3:00 Rotating panel discussions (Max Palevsky Cinema and Ida Noyes Hall)
• 3:00-6:00 Graduate Social in the Pub and Cloister Club of Ida Noyes

Wed Sep 26:  

• 10:30-11:30 Smart Museum Tour
• 1:00-2:20 Core Lecture
• Dante, Vita Nuova

Thu Sep 27:

• 1:00-2:20 Core Lecture
• Dante, Vita Nuova
• 2:30-4:00 Precept Groups (Cobb Hall)
• 4:00-6:00 MAPH Social Hour (Classics 110)