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Nanette Shaw
Scholar and author Geoffrey Hartman will deliver a free public lecture titled "History, Memory, and Holocaust Video Testimony" at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, on Thursday, February 24, at 6 p.m. Professor Hartman is appearing as part of a Scholar-in-Residence program offered by the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center. Professor Hartman, who is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University, will serve as Scholar-in-Residence from February 13 to February 25. In addition to his lecture, he will give open seminars for students and faculty of The Graduate Center on the poetry and culture of the English Romantic period and will be available to advise graduate students. Professor Hartman is a well-known Wordsworth scholar. His 1964 book Wordsworth's Poetry remains a classic in the field. He is also a co-founder and scholarly advisor to the Fortunoff Archive of Holocaust Testimony at Yale University and was a pioneer in the field of oral history of the Holocaust, a subject on which he has written several important essays. His other books include collections of essays such as Beyond Formalism (1970), The Fate of Reading (1975), Criticism in the Wilderness (1980), and Minor Prophecies (1991), as well as The Longest Shadow, a study of the aftermath of the Holocaust. The Scholar-in-Residence Program at the CUNY Graduate Center is made possible by a gift from Joanna and Daniel Rose, and is being presented by the Center for the Humanities in cooperation with the Ph.D. Program in English. The Center for the Humanities, which is directed by Morris Dickstein, hopes that this will be the first of a series of residencies by writers or scholars at the CUNY Graduate Center. More information is available at 1-212-817-2005. The Graduate Center is the doctorate-granting institution of The City University of New York, the largest urban university in the U.S. The only consortium of its kind in the nation, The Graduate Center draws its faculty of more than 1,600 members mainly from the CUNY senior colleges and cultural and scientific institutions throughout New York City. Established in 1961, The Graduate Center has grown to an enrollment of nearly 4,000 students in 31 doctoral programs and seven master's degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Graduate Center also houses 24 research centers and institutes and administers the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. According to a recent National Research Council report, more than a third of The Graduate Center's rated programs rank among the nation's top 20 at public and private institutions, nearly a quarter are among the top ten when compared to publicly supported institutions alone, and more than half are among the top five programs at publicly supported institutions in the northeast. |