Research workshop on the unfinished Flavian Epics, Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica and Statius' Achilleid presented by students enrolled in CLA 525/625. There will be coffee breaks, lunch and a reception, followed by dinner with our Keynote Speaker.

The Committee on Social Theory is excited to announce the 2014 Fall Distinguished Speaker, Dr. Margaret Archer.

On Friday, December 12th at 4p.m., Dr. Archer will present her talk, “The Relational Subject versus the Plural Subject: We Believe, Plan and Want, but Who or What are We?” in the President's Room of the Singletary Center for the Arts.

A catered reception will be held from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Gaines Center Commonwealth House.

Margaret Archer was Professor of Sociology for thirty years at the University of Warwick, UK, where she developed her ‘Morphogenetic Approach’ and wrote her trilogy of books on Reflexivity. She then became Professor of Social Theory at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and launched the Centre d’Ontologie Sociale/Centre for Social Ontology that produces a book a year from an international group of theorists on the possible transition from late modernity to a global Morphogenic Society. She was elected as the first woman President of the International Sociological Association at the 12th World Congress of Sociology, is a founding member of the (British) Academy of Social Sciences and a trustee of the Centre for Critical Realism. In April this year, Pope Francis appointed her as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

Ödön von Horváth’s plays, although popular in Germany, are notoriously difficult to translate due to the stylized speech and cultural references von Horváth used in his desire for a realistic portrayal of the bourgeoisie of the Weimar Republic. Under the guidance of the skilled Scottish director and writer Alan McKendrick, students in GER 352 will perform a dramatic reading of their own translation of von Horváth's Kasimir und Karoline. There will also be a Q&A with the students and director after the reading. Reception with refreshments to follow.

Viewer discretion is advised. Both the original text and the translation contain phrasing that is sexual in nature which might make some viewers uncomfortable.