Hosting the Stranger seminar series
Hosting the Stranger overview
Week 1, Speaker: Richard Kearney
Week 2, Speaker: Glorianna Davenport
Week 3, Speakers: Kalpana Seshadri, James Bernauer, and Susan Michalczyk
Week 4, Speakers: Ellen Winner and Jeff Bloechl
Week 5, Speakers: Anne Davenport and Richard Kearney
Week 6, Speakers: Chris Yates, Elizabeth Purcell, James Taylor; Video: Paul Bennett and Robert Kehoe
Week 7, Speakers: Pamela Berger and Matilda Bruckner
Week 8, Speakers: Fanny Howe and Amy Hollywood
Week 9, Lectures by Mike Civille, Regine Jean-Charles, and Tina Klein (March 25)
Week 10, Strangers of the Deep with artist Dorothy Cross (April 1)
Week 11, Presentation by Dr. John Michalczyk and Fr. Raymond Helmick, Response by Padraig O'Malley (April 8)
Week 12, Presentations by Christopher Ricks and Paul Mariani (April 15)
Week 13, Hosting the Stranger: Hospitality and Hostility in World Politics, featuring Noam Chomsky, Stephen Pfohl, and a response by Ali Banuazizi (April 22)
Performances
March 13, 2009, Concert: Songs of Sacred Welcome featuring Noirin Ni Riain and Company
Poetries of the Stranger, April 17, featuring James Tate, Fanny Howe, and John Ashbery
Poetries of the Stranger, April 18, featuring Henri Cole, Jorie Graham, and Mark Strand
Poetries of the Stranger, April 19, featuring Adam Zagajewski, Lucie Brock-Broido, and Derek Walcott
Conferences
March Inter-religious Hospitality Conference
Budhist Hospitality
Christian Hospitality
Hindu Hospitality
Muslim Hospitality
Jewish Hospitality
Phenomenologies of the Stranger Conference
Panel 1: Jack Caputo and Karmen MacKendrick; Chair: David Rasmussen
Panel 2: Simon Critchley and William Richardson; Chair: Vanessa Rumble
Panel 3: Edward Casey and David Wood; Chair: Kalpana Seshadri