College of Humanities & Social Sciences, AUA

About the Event: The lecture will offer a reading of Kafka’s work as the most influential reaction against the “aesthetic principle” (mainly related to the name of Richard Wagner), which colonized the minds in all Europe during the 19th century. Speaker: Marc Nichanian Language: Armenian   Միջոցառման մասին Դասախօսութիւնը պիտի հրամցնէ Կաֆկայի գործին հակիրճ ընթերցում մը, զայն […]

About the Event: Creative/Critical discussion series of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), featuring the scholarly and creative output of CHSS faculty members, kicks off with its inaugural panel discussion on Friday, December 7, 2018.   This first panel will feature brief presentations of the recent and/or forthcoming scholarly work of nine faculty […]

The Creative/Critical discussion series of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, featuring the scholarly and creative output of CHSS faculty members, presents its second panel discussion on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Through the varied lenses of Feminist Studies, literature, music, and oral history, panelists will explore interstices of Convergence and confluence between cultures, bodies […]

Georg Trakl, (born Feb. 3, 1887, Salzburg, Austria—died Nov. 3, 1914, Cracow, Galicia, Austria-Hungary). Expressionist poet whose emotional life story and wartime torments made him Austria’s foremost elegist of decay and death. Like other famous Austrian artists (e.g. painters Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, composer Alban Berg, writers Robert Musil and Heimito von Doderer) he […]

The Creative/Critical discussion series of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, featuring the scholarly and creative output of CHSS faculty members, presents its third panel — The Visual Replete — on Friday, May 3, 2019. This panel, featuring work primarily in the visual arts, explores the possibilities afforded by visual representations of subjects that otherwise hide, […]