What is Human? Friday Lunches 2007-08

  • Clive Svenson
  • UW-Madison Professor of Anatomy and Neurology

  • The Meaning of Life: Embryoss, Chimeras, and Jaynes

  • October 19, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
  • Banquet Room, University Club
  • This event is one of the What is Human? Friday Lunches events.

  • Rick Keller
  • UW-Madison Assistant Professor of Medical History and History of Science

  • Chasing Ghosts: Notes from a Human Disaster

  • November 16, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
  • Banquet Room, University Club
  • This event is one of the What is Human? Friday Lunches events.

  • Deborah Jenson
  • UW-Madison Associate Professor of French and Interim Director of the Center for the Humanities

  • The Genius of Imitation, from Mimesis to Mirror Neurons

  • December 14, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
  • Banquet Room, University Club
  • This event is one of the What is Human? Friday Lunches events.

    Hans Adler
  • Hans Adler
  • Professor, Departments of German and Comparative Literature, UW-Madison

  • Humanity is/was not "humane": A Programmatic Reminder

  • February 1, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
  • Banquet Room, University Club
  • This event is one of the What is Human? Friday Lunches events.

    Elliott Sober
  • Elliott Sober
  • Professor, Department of Philosophy, UW-Madison

  • Simplicity and Complexity in Arts and Sciences

  • February 22, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
  • Banquet Room, University Club
  • This event is one of the What is Human? Friday Lunches events.

    Jon McKenzie
  • Jon McKenzie
  • Associate Professor, Department of English, UW-Madison

  • On the Posthuman

  • March 28, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
  • Banquet Room, University Club
  • This event is one of the What is Human? Friday Lunches events.

    Marina van Zuylen
  • Marina van Zuylen
  • Professor, Departments of French and Comparative Literature, Bard College

  • Therapeutic Obsessions: Creativity and Compulsion in Literature and Art

  • April 10, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
  • Banquet Room, University Club
  • This event is one of the What is Human? Friday Lunches events.