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SUMMARY:Figuring War - Jay Winter (Yale)
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Humanitas Visiting Professor in War Studies 2012: Jay Winter\n
 \nProfessor Jay Winter (Charles J Stille Professor of History\, Yale Unive
 rsity) will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding sympos
 ium on Imagining War in the 20th Century and After.\n\nAbstract\n\nThe lec
 tures explore mediating languages and symbolic forms which writers\, artis
 ts\, and filmmakers have used to represent war since 1900. This attention 
 to language in cultural history is at the core of this interpretation. Wha
 t we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. The event itsel
 f\, what Walt Whitman called the red thing\, the actual killing\, is beyon
 d us. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding\, terrifying light
  in order to see it at all. The lectures want to draw attention to these l
 enses as the elements which make understanding war possible at the same ti
 me as they limit what we see.\n\nThe second lecture addresses painting and
  sculpture in an effort to show that figuring war has the capacity to redu
 ce and at times to leap over some of these language barriers. Putting a fa
 ce on war has a history\, and it has been one primarily of progressive eff
 acement since 1900.\n\nFor more information on this series\, please see th
 e following link: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1717/.
LOCATION:Room 3\, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms\, 8 Mill Lane\, Cambridge
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