History of Seminars
| TERM | TEACHER |
COURSE |
| Sum'09 | David Soren | American Vaudeville: A Personal Retrospective |
| Sum'09 | Pat Willerton | Georgia (and other things) On My Mind: Medvedev's Russia |
Spg '09 |
Richard Hanson | Another Openin’, Another Show: The Making of a Musical |
Spg '09 |
Richard Poss | Humanities at the Frontiers of Science |
Spg '09 |
Sarah Moore | America As Art |
Spg '09 |
Julia E. Annas | The Good Life in Ancient Philosophy |
Fall '08 |
John Wilson | A Crash of Choreographers: Dance Arts in the Twentieth Century |
Fall '08 |
Susan White | Hollywood and Its Discontents: Genre and Subversion in American and European Cinema |
Fall '08 |
Tom Price | Islam, Israel, and the West: How We Got Where We Are Today |
Fall '08 |
Thomas P. Miller | Drawing Up Sides in American Politics: What Choices are Left, and Right? |
Sum '08 |
David Soren | The Amazing Architecture of Ancient Rome |
| Sum '08 | Richard Poss | American Pulp Fictions 1945-65 |
| Spg '08 | Amy Williamsen | Women Writers of the Spanish Empire |
| Spg '08 | Adele Barker | The Modern Psychological Novel |
| Spg '08 | Peter Medine | Political Shakespeare |
| Fall '07 | Alison Deming | Poetry and Poetics |
| Fall '07 | Patrick Baliani | Drama and the Pulitzer Prize |
| Fall '07 | Norman Austin | Athens and Persia: The Decisive Moment |
| Sum '07 | Meg Lota Brown | English Renaissance Love Poetry |
| Sum '07 | Thomas P. Miller | American Political Rhetoric |
| Spg '07 | Richard Hanson | The Great American Songbook |
| Spg '07 | Tom Price | Modern Jewish Literature |
| Spg '07 | Richard Poss | Science, Art, and the Human Spirit |
| Fall '06 | Charles Scruggs | Film Noir: Hollywood's Subversive Cinema |
| Fall '06 | Hester Oberman | Religion and Violence |
| Fall '06 | David Christenson | Literature and Life in Ancient Rome |
| Sum '06 | Cynthia White | From the Colosseum to the Catacombs: The Intersection of Pagan and Christian Rome |
| Sum '06 | Roger Bowen | Strangers in a Strange Land: Colonists, Exiles, Travelers and Tourists in Modern British, European and American Fiction |
| Spg '06 | Peter Medine | Love and Death: Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies |
| Spg '06 | Malcolm Compitello | Directors Beyond a Nervous Breakdown: Spanish Cinema Since Pedro Almodovar |
| Spg '06 | Steve Martinson | Crosscurrents: Literature and Philosophy in Modern German Culture |
| Fall `05 | Amy Williamsen | Cervantes's Don Quixote : A Book for All Ages |
| Fall `05 | Norman Austin | The Pathology of Greek Tragedy: Ancient and Modern Theories |
| Fall `05 | Thomas Price | The History of Anti-Semitism |
| Sum `05 | Therese Martin | Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages |
| Sum `05 | George Gutsche | Russia Today |
| Spg `05 | Richard Hanson | Hooray for Hollywood |
| Spg `05 | Meg Lota Brown | Women and Culture in Renaissance Europe |
| Spg `05 | Richard Poss | Astrobiology and Arts |
| Fall `04 | Peter Medine | Lyric Poetry |
| Fall `04 | Lee Parry | Colonial American Art |
| Fall `04 | John Wilson | How the Arts Came to Be |
| Sum `04 | Roger Bowen | Postwar British Literature |
| Sum `04 | David Soren | Art History and Cinema |
| Spg `04 | Norman Austin | Sophocles' Philoctetes and the History of Greek Tragedy |
| Spg `04 | Alex Nava | Religion in 20th Century Literature |
| Spg `04 | David Christenson | Ancient Athletics |
| Fall `03 | Steven Martinson | Faust |
| Fall `03 | Tom Price | Islam, Israel and the West |
| Fall `03 | Frank Romer | Aristophanes and the Comic Tradition |
| Sum `03 | Pat Willerton | Putin's Russia: Democracy or Dictatorship |
| Sum `03 | Susan White | The American West in Film |
| Spg `03 | Richard Hanson | Fascinating Rhythm! |
| Spg `03 | Peter Medine | Milton's Paradise Lost in Our Time |
| Spg `03 | Lee Parry | 20th Century American Art |
| Fall `02 | Albrecht Classen | The Future of the Past: Humanistic Explorations of Medieval Ideas, Dreams and Values |
| Fall `02 | Alex Nava | The Question of God |
| Fall `02 | Lee Parry | Nineteenth-Century American Art |
| Sum `02 | Charles Smith | The Middle East, Islam, and The United States: Current Realities in Historical Perspective |
| Sum `02 | David Soren | Excavating the Ancient Romans |
| Spg `02 | Norman Austin | The Problem of Nothing |
| Spg `02 | Christopher Carroll | Great Works in Dialogue |
| Spg `02 | Richard Poss | Humanities at the Frontiers of Science |
| Fall `01 | Christopher Maloney | 10 Great Philosophical Ideas |
| Fall `01 | George Gutsche | Russian Film |
| Fall `01 | Frank Romer | Rulers and Ruled in the Roman Empire |
| Sum `01 | Susan White | The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock |
| Sum `01 | Robert Gimello | Religion and Art along the Silk Roads |
| Spg `01 | Albrecht Classen | A Literary History of Germany |
| Spg `01 | Adele Barker | Strangers in a Strange Land: The History of Travel Writing |
| Spg `01 | Richard Hanson | Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! The American Musical Theatre |
| Fall `00 | Malcolm Compitello | The Truth of Lies: Reading Modern Hispanic Fiction |
| Fall `00 | Pat Willerton | Democracy and Tyranny in the 21st Century |
| Fall `00 | Peter Medine | Shakespeare on Love |
| Sum `00 | Douglas Canfield | Faulkner and His Followers |
| Sum `00 | Susan White | Masterpieces of Detective Fiction |
| Spg `00 | Richard Poss | Humanities at the Frontiers of Science III |
| Spg `00 | Norman Austin | Helen of Troy: from Homer to Derek Walcott |
| Spg `00 | John Ulreich | Questioning Genesis |
| Fall `99 | Adele Barker | Popular Culture in the Post-Soviet Union |
| Fall `99 | Lee Parry | Impressionism |
| Fall `99 | Albrecht Classen | Utopias in Western Literature |
| Sum `99 | David Soren | The Hollywood Musical |
| Sum `99 | Marilyn Skinner | Women in Ancient Egypt |
| Spg `99 | Donna Swaim | It's a Question of Identity |
| Spg `99 | Susan White | Science and History of Humanities |
| Spg `99 | Peter Medine | Shakespeare's Comedy and Tragedy |
| Fall `98 | Lee Parry | The Romantic Impulse in the Visual Arts, European Painting 1776-1848 |
| Fall `98 | Jeff Haskell | A History of Jazz |
| Fall `98 | George Gutsche | Anton Chekov and the Russian Theater |
| Sum `98 | David Soren | Mysterious Etruscans |
| Sum `98 | Doug Canfield | Mavericks on the Border |
| Spg `98 | John Wilson | Dance in World Cultures |
| Spg `98 | Pat Willerton | World Politics |
| Spg `98 | Norman Austin | Post-Colonial Literature |
| Fall `97 | Robert Burns | America's Religions |
| Fall `97 | Christopher Carroll | Ancient Epics |
| Fall `97 | Lee Parry | Masterworks of American Art |
| Sum `97 | Doug Canfield | Tasting Poetry |
| Spg `97 | James Anthony | French Baroque Music |
| Spg `97 | Bella Zweig | Ancient Greek Drama & Film |
| Spg `97 | Peter Medine | Shakespeare & the Family |
| Spg `97 | George Gutsche | Russian Short Story |
| Fall `96 | Richard Poss | Humanities and Frontiers Science II |
| Fall `96 | Christopher Carroll | Chaucer |
| Sum `96 | Richard Jensen | Augustus and the Golden Age of Rome |
| Spg `96 | Pat Willerton | Russia in Search of Its Future |
| Spg `96 | Bella Zweig | The Rites of Spring: Ancient Greek Religion and Culture |
| Spg `96 | David Soren | The Golden Age of the Hollywood Movie |
| Spg `96 | Donna Swaim | Spirituality in The Arts |
| Fall `95 | Jay Paul Minn | Opera & Literature II |
| Fall `95 | Jon Solomon | Classic Tradition in the Arts |
| Fall `95 | George Gutsche | Russian Literature |
| Sum `95 | Doug Canfield | Shakespeare's Contemporaries |
| Spg `95 | Hennings Jensen | Philosophy in Literature |
| Spg `95 | Adele Barker | Virginia Woolf and Friends |
| Spg `95 | Norman Austin | Archaic Greek Culture |
| Fall `94 | Sarah Moore | American Art: 1830 to Today |
| Fall `94 | Jay Paul Minn | Opera and Literature |
| Fall `94 | Robert Burns | Religion in America |
| Sum `94 | Doug Canfield | Restoration Comedy |
| Spg `94 | John Wilson | Dance and Human Species |
| Spg `94 | Richard Poss | Humanities and Frontiers of Science |
| Spg `94 | Lee Parry | Art of Great Britain |
| Fall `93 | Richard Wilkinson | Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt |
| Fall `93 | Marilynn Skinner | Women in Antiquity |
| Fall `93 | Louis Helbig | German Culture: 1900-2000 |
| Sum `93 | Doug Canfield | Trickster in Literature |
| Spg `93 | Amy Newhall | 16th Cent. Mediterranean City |
| Fall `92 | Linda Zwinger | American Detective Novel |
| Fall `92 | Lee Parry | Art-French |
| Fall `92 | James Anthony | Monteverdi to Bach |
| Sum `92 | David Soren | Ancient Rome Art, Archaelogy |
| Spg `92 | Pat Willerton | Gorbachev & Changing USSR |
| Spg `92 | Heiko Oberman | European History: 1400-1600 |
| Fall `91 | Amy Newhall | Art and Architecture of Islam |
| Fall `91 | Allen Whiting | East Asia Rising |
| Fall `91 | James Anthony | Mozart |
| Sum `91 | Doug Canfield | John Milton |
| Spg `91 | Louis Helbig | Unified Germany and Change |
| Spg `91 | Robert Gimello | Varieties/Mystical Experience |
| Spg `91 | Donna Swaim & RaymondWhite | 20th Century Arts in Science II |
| Fall `90 | Lee Parry | Arts in America |
| Fall `90 | James Anthony | Chamber Music |
| Fall `90 | Michael Mahar | History/Civilization of India |
| Sum `90 | Ann Zwinger | US Women Novelists |
| Sum `90 | Doug Canfield | Chaucer |
| Spg `90 | Norman Austin | Greek Tragedy |
| Spg `90 | Adele Barker | Modern Tradition |
| Spg `90 | Donna Swaim & Raymond White | 20th Century Arts in Science |
| Fall `89 | David Soren | Art History of Cinema |
| Fall `89 | James Anthony | 20th Century Music |
| Fall `89 | Pat Willerton | USSR/Gorbachev |
| Sum `89 | Doug Canfield | Faulkner |
| Sum `89 | Robert Gimello | Zen in Eastern Arts |
| Spg `89 | Donna Swaim | Contemporary Arts |
| Spg `89 | Norman Austin | Archaic Mind |
| Spg `89 | Jon Solomon | Greek Mythology |
| Fall `88 | Richard Cosgrove | English History |
| Fall `88 | Robert Burns | Roman Catholicism |
| Fall `88 | James Anthony | 19th Century Music |
| Sum `88 | Doug Canfield | Shakespeare |
| Spg `88 | Heiko Oberman | Reformation Era |
| Spg `88 | Adele Barker | USSR/Gorbachev |
| Spg `88 | Robert Gimello | Buddhism |
| Fall `87 | Robert Burns | Western Religions |
| Fall `87 | Allen Whiting | China/USSR/US |
| Fall `87 | William Dever | Biblical Archaeological Finds |
| Sum `87 | Doug Canfield | Female Rebels |
| Spg `87 | Robert Giebner | Architecture History |
| Spg `87 | Robert Gimello & John Olsen | Classical China |
| Fall `86 | Jon Solomon & Albert Leonard | Myths/Monuments |
| Fall `86 | James Anthony | Classical Era |
| Sum `86 | Jon Solomon | Greek Mythology II |
| Spg `86 | Jon Solomon | Modern Visions of Antiquity |
| Spg `86 | Albert Leonard | Archaeology Ancient Egypt |
| Spg `86 | Adele Barker | The Russian Mind |
| Fall `85 | Doug Canfield | Satire |
| Fall `85 | James Anthony | Monteverdi to Bach |
| Sum `85 | Jon Solomon | Epic and Hero |
| Spg `85 | Jon Solomon | Greek Mythology |
| Spg `85 | David Soren | Greek/Roman Archaeology |
| Fall `84 | Doug Canfield | Word as Bond |
| Fall `84 | Jon Solomon | Mind in Ancient Greece |
| Sum '84 | Jon Solomon | Ancient Greek Tragedy |
| Spg '84 | Jon Solomon | Mind in Ancient Greece |
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Kerstin Miller
Coordinator, Humanities Seminars Program
Mailing address: 1508 East Helen Street
P.O. Box 210150
Tucson AZ 85721-0150
Tel: (520) 626-7845, Fax: (520)-621-5566
Contact us: humansem@email.arizona.edu