Harriet Stone, Ph.D., a 2006 faculty fellow, will speak on “Objects for the Table: Descartes, La Bruyère and Dutch Golden Age Painters” at 4:10 p.m. March 2 in McDonnell Hall, Room 162.
Stone — professor of Romance languages & literatures and of comparative literature, both in Arts & Sciences — is the second of six speakers appearing this spring as part of the Faculty Fellows Lecture and Workshop Series, presented by The Center for the Humanities Arts & Sciences.
Her talk will address the status of objects in science, literature and art as part of an inquiry into forms of knowledge that ground 17th-century European culture.
Stone is the author of The Classical Model: Literature and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century France (1996), as well as Royal DisClosure: Problematics of Representation in French Classical Tragedy (1987). She earned a doctorate in comparative literature from Brown University in 1982.
Subsequent speakers in the Faculty Fellows series are listed below.
• March 9: Peter Kastor, Ph.D., assistant professor of history in Arts & Sciences.
• March 23 & 24: Martha Sandweiss, Ph.D., professor of American studies and history at Amherst College.
• April 17: Erin McGlothlin, Ph.D., assistant professor of Germanic language & literatures in Arts & Sciences.
• April 24 & 25: Mariët Westermann, Ph.D., director of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 935-5576.