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Lionel Trilling
and His Legacy


Friday, OCTOBER 3, 2008

Graduate Student Lounge, 301 Philosophy Hall


PROGRAM



1:30-2 PM


Introductory Remarks
Ross Posnock,
Chair, Lionel Trilling Seminars

Session I:
“Trilling in the 1940s”


2-3:15 PM

Louis Menand, Harvard University,
on The Liberal Imagination
Geraldine Murphy, City College, CUNY,
on The Journey Abandoned,
Trilling’s unfinished novel
Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh,
respondent

Session II:
“Reflections on Trilling at Columbia”


3:30-5:15 PM

Steven Marcus, Columbia University
John Rosenberg, Columbia University
George Stade, Columbia University
Fritz Stern, Columbia University
Michael Wood, Princeton University

Reception, 5:30-7 PM


This conference is generously supported by
the
Columbia University Libraries,
the
Columbia University Press,
the Lionel Trilling Seminars at the Heyman Center for the Humanities,
the Department of English and Comparative Literature,
and the Simon H. Rifkin Center for the Humanities and the Arts, City College, CUNY.