Guest lecture, March 11: Jane Taylor: “Wittgenstein ‘On Uncertainty’: Complexity in an Age of Absolutism”

11 March 2019, 4 pm, Odette Hall 323

JANE TAYLOR is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance at the University of the Western Cape. She has written several plays for puppets, working with Artist William Kentridge and Handspring Puppet Company, as well as a recent puppet play for early modern scholar Stephen Greenblatt—a work dealing with the early history of neurology. She has written a novel on organ transplants, and most recently has completed a monograph, Being Led By the Nose (University of Chicago Press), on Kentridge’s production of Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera The Nose.

If you have any accommodation needs, please e-mail german@chass.utoronto.ca five business days prior to the event, and we will do our best to assist you.