Beatty Talk: Professor Michael Holquist (Yale), "Gambling with the Humanities"

The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, the Canada Research Chair in Law and Discourse, and the Departments of English and Art History and Communication Studies welcome

Michael Holquist

Professor Emeritus of Comparative and Slavic Literatures, Yale University

Society of Senior Fellows, Columbia University

Professor Holquist is the leading figure in scholarship on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, and has developed a body of work over the course of his long career that is notable for its interdisciplinary depth, breadth, and influence.  He has published widely on a range of themes, including utopian fiction, detective stories, and Lewis Carroll.

"Gambling With the Humanities"

This lecture is a meditation on what the new discipline of reading science, which seems to reveal that perception and judgment are a kind of stochastic contest between pattern and chance, might have to teach us about perception. Assuming that literacy in its various forms is at the heart of the liberal arts, these findings should aid in the necessary work of redefining the humanities in and for the future.

This lecture is free and open to the public, but spaces may be limited.  Please follow this link to reserve a spot.

This lecture is made possible by a grant from the Beatty Memorial Lectures Committee