Friday, September 11, 1998
Welcome/Orientation for New Students

Friday, September 18, 1998
Alumni/ae Lecture: Jean Gallagher, Polytechnic University, "World War 1 Through a Female Gaze"

Friday, September 25, 1998
Karl Kirchwey, Director, The 92nd Street Y, Unterberg Poetry Center, "The Poet, the Classics, The Contemporary Stage: The Impulse to Reclaim a Lost Audience"

Friday, October 2, 1998
Margaret Stetz, Georgetown University, "The Comfort Women of World War II"

Friday, October 9, 1998
Job Forum

Tuesday, October 13, 1998, at 6:30
Panel Discussion on Language, Thinking, and Remediation: Geoffrey Numberg, Ricardo Otheguy, George Otte. Co-Sponsored with the Ph.D. Program in Linguistics and The Center for the Humanities. Proshansky Auditorium.

Friday, October 16, 1998
Barbara Herrnstein-Smith, Duke University, "'Aesthetic Value': Nominalist Rite." With the support of The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities at The City College. Proshansky Auditorium.

Thursday, October 22, 1998, at 6:00
Denis Donoghue, New York University, "T.S. Eliot and The Poem Itself," sponsored by The Center for the Humanities. Proshansky Auditorium.

Friday, October 23, 1998
A Program in Celebration of David Gordon: Jonathan Lear, of The Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, "Freud, Scandal, and the Logic of the Soul." Professor Lear is the author of Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul and is a regular contributor to The New Republic.

Thursday, October 29, 1998, at 7:30,
A Reading and Conversation: Yehuda Amichai, with Ammiel Alcalay, Stanley Kunitz, moderated by Ted Solotaroff, co-sponsored by the English Department of Baruch College and The Center for the Humanities. At the Baruch Conference Center, 151 East 25th Street.

Friday, October 30, 1998
David Bradley, Visiting Professor, The City College, "The Non-Existence of Black History."

Friday, November 6, 2-6pm, Room 207
"Feminism and..."

Friday, November 13, 2-4 pm,
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, University of Texas, Austin, "Desegregating American Literary Studies." Room TBA. 4-6pm, Renaissance Studies Program

@ Tuesday, November 17, at 6:00,
Alan Ryan, author of John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, "Two More Cheers for Utopia," sponsored by The Center for the Humanities. Proshansky Auditorium.

@ Friday, November 20, 1998
Geoffrey O'Brien, author of The Phantom Empire, reviewer for The New York Review of Books, Editor-in-Chief, The Library of America, "Times Square Story: 1960s Popular Film Making"

@ Friday, December 4, 1998
A discussion led by professors John Brenkman and Louis Menand about the question, "How Do You Know If Something is Good?" 4 p.m., Third Floor Studio

@ Friday, December 11, 1998
Revels

Following Every Friday Forum Program, a reception will be held in the English Program offices on the 40th Floor of the Grace Building, 43 W. 42nd Street

All Programs are free and open to the public. No advance registration is required.