A workshop with Dr. Frederick A. De Armas.
Why the Humanities Matter (April 8 – In English – via Zoom)
This workshop focuses on current research trends and challenges in the Humanities.
To attend this event via Zoom, please register here
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-the-humanities-matter-tickets-148684600643
For further details, contact Dr. Carmela Mattza (cmattza@lsu.edu) or visit lsu.edu/hss/wllc/news/lndex.php
This event is sponsored by the The Eric Voegelln Institute, The Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, The Program In Comparative Literature, and The College of Humanities and Social Sciences Strategic Excellence Fund.
Professor Frederick A. de Armas is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.
He is a literary scholar, critic, and novelist whose scholarly work focuses on the literature of the Spanish Golden Age (Cervantes, Calderón, Claramonte, and Lope de Vega), often from a comparative perspective. His interests include the politics of astrology; magic and the Hermetic tradition; ekphrasis; the relations between the verbal and the visual particularly between Spanish literature and Italian art; and the interconnections between myth and empire during the rule of the Habsburgs.