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Living Well with Pessimism, Then and Now
The Graduate College is pleased to present the Teams Live Event Living Well with Pessimism, Then and Now, a lecture by University Scholar Joseph Acquisto, Ph.D. on Monday, February 8 2021 at 4:30 pm. The event can be joined at http://go.uvm.edu/universityscholars.
For many, pessimism is closely allied, if not synonymous, with cynicism, nihilism, melancholy, or despair. But pessimism is distinct from all of these other views; it emerged in the “modern” world, entering the French and English languages in the eighteenth century and becoming the subject of vigorous debate in the nineteenth century. This lecture traces those debates among nineteenth-century French nonfiction writers who either lauded its promotion of compassion and a healthy set of limits or condemned it for being a sick and unlivable attempt at renunciation. It then examines the way novelists and poets take up and transform these questions by portraying character
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Openings, closings, and coming attractions
The Nash has opened in downtown. Located in The Star apartment building (1111 Rusk St.), the restaurant is described as a “love letter” to American cuisine with a menu created by chef Omar Pereney of A La Carte Consulting Group. Selections include steaks, salads, seafood, pizza, and pasta. Currently open for dinner daily from 4-9 pm, lunch and brunch will follow in the coming weeks.
Institution
Education Bachelor in Romance Languages and Literature from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1959), PhD from the Paris-Sorbonne University (1968)
Written works
Shall we start by talking about your time as a student? There are three years at the start of my career that I consider decisive for the development of my intellectual and teaching approach: 1960, 1961, and 1962. In 1948, when I was 12, my family moved to Belo Horizonte, where I obtained my degree in romance languages from UFMG [Federal University of Minas Gerais] in 1959. At that time, there were no master’s and PhD programs in Brazil. Generally speaking, you would apply to become a professor at a university and, if approved, you then received the title of doctor. Therefore, if you wanted to continue your training, you had to leave the country. I was interested in French literature and culture and got a CAPES [Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education] scholarship fo
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Lionel Gossman, the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Medicine in Philadelphia on Jan. 11. He was 91.
Lionel Gossman, 2013
Photo by William Paulson, 1981 graduate alumnus
Gossman joined Princeton’s faculty in 1976 and transferred to emeritus status in 1999. His research and teaching focused on French literature of the 17th and 18th centuries; literature, literary criticism and history as social and cultural institutions; and the writing of history. He served as director of graduate studies from 1977-83 of what was then called the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and was department chair from 1991-96.