Date/Time
Date(s) - 9 Sep 2016
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
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For the first meeting of the year, Friday September 9, Gail Kern Paster (Folger Shakespeare Library), will present the 2016-17 Beckerman Lecture, titled “’After his sour fashion’: Disposition and the Cognitive Ecology of Julius Caesar.”
“Cognitive ecologies” is a term used to designate all the activities of deciding, contemplating, feeling and the environments in which they take place. In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, centered upon a decision and its disastrous aftermath, the cognitive ecology is where the play in a real sense takes place. I will focus on two moments in the play–before and after the assassination–in order to argue that it is a key change in Brutus’s thinking from keen social observation to metaphor and adage that allows him to want to kill his friend.
The event will be held in Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive. As always social hour will be from 5-6, dinner 6-7, and the talk 7-8:30. Please reply to the Evite (contact [email protected] if you have not received one). The Seminar office now asks us to give a count for dinner 10 days in advance, so if you plan on attending dinner please indicate so on the Evite by Tuesday, August 30. The cost for dinner, payable by check only, is $25.