Some members of HES might be interested in this. 
 
 
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 19:24:22 -0600 
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Forwarded by Ross Emmett 
 
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    THE REVIVAL OF PRAGMATISM 
    conference to be held at the CUNY Graduate Center, 33 West 
    42 Street, New York, NY 10036, on November 3-4, 1995. 
 
         Opening Speaker: Friday, 1:45 p.m. 
 
    Hilary Putnam (Harvard), Pragmatism and Realism, 
 
                                  Panels: 
    Friday, 2:45 
         "Pragmatism & Legal Thought," with Judge Richard Posner and 
         Prof. Thomas Grey (Stanford Law School) 
 
    Keynote Speaker: Richard Rorty (Virginia), Fri., 7:45 
 
    Saturday, 10-12:30. 
         "Pragmatism & the Remaking of Social Thought," with Profs. 
         Richard Bernstein & Nancy Fraser (New School) & Robert 
         Westbrook (Rochester),  Respondents: John Diggins (CUNY), 
         Marion Smiley (Wisconsin) 
 
    Saturday, 2-3:45. 
         "Pragmatism, Culture, and Art," with Richard Poirier ("Why 
         Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets?" and respondents Louis 
         Menand (CUNY) and David Bromwich (Yale) 
 
 
    Concluding Session, Saturday, 4-5:30. 
         Stanley Cavell (Harvard), Hans Joas (Free University of 
         Berlin), Ruth Ana Putnam (Wellesley), and Stanley Fish 
         (Duke) 
 
    Additional information available by calling the Center for the 
    Humanities at 212-642-2684. 
    Morris Dickstein, Director & Conference Coordinator 
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Ross B. Emmett, Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta 
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