Department of Classics and Humanities

College of Arts & Letters
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego CA 92182-6064

Phone 619-594-5186
Fax 619-594-1004

Arts & Letters 662

Lectures and Events

Fifteenth Annual Adams Lecture, Fall 2007

Anthony Grafton
Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University
A Renaissance Vision of Time and Space:
Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle
3:30 Monday afternoon, October 29, Aztec Athletics Center

Hartmann Schedel’s Chronicle—an immense and splendidly illustrated history of the world published in 1493—has always been admired but rarely read. Yet it is a fascinating book, an interdisciplinary creation. This lecture will show how travel writing, historiography, and many other genres came together in Schedel’s hands and in his book to form a compelling Renaissance vision of the world, the past, and the future.

The John R. Adams Lecture in Humanities was inaugurated in 1993 through a grant and subsequent endowment by the late Professor Adams, former Chair of the Division of Humanities. A version of each lecture is subsequently published by the Department for selective distribution. Now available: Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard University, The Disastrous Premiere of The Rite of Spring. CLICK FOR COPIES.

Thirty-Ninth Annual Burnett Lecture, Spring 2008

Spring 2008 lecturer to be announced

The Gail A. Burnett Lecture in Classics was established in 1968 through an endowment by the late Dr. Burnett, Professor Emerita of English and Classics. It is the oldest continuing lecture series at SDSU. A version of each lecture is subsequently published by the Department for selective distribution. Also available are copies of The Burnett Lectures: A Quarter Century (1993) as our appreciation for donations to the Burnett Lecture fund or to the Department. Now available: Charles D. Hamilton, SDSU, Political Leadership, Democracy and War, Then and Now: Pericles and George W. Bush. CLICK FOR COPIES.