The Midwest Faculty Seminar
presents

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (1962)

Jurgen Habermas

March 3-5, 2005

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 3:

8:30 a.m. Shuttle leaves Ramada Inn Lakeshore for Classics 10 (1010 E. 59th Street).

8:45 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Elizabeth O'Connor Chandler, Director, Midwest Faculty Seminar
9:15 a.m “Title TBA”
William Mazzarella, Anthropology

10:30 a.m. Coffee
10:45 a.m. “Title TBA”
Moishe Postone, History

12:00 noon Lunch (on your own)
2:00 p.m. “Title TBA”
Eric Slauter, English Language and Literature

3:15 p.m. Coffee
3:30 p.m. Participant Discussion Groups
Group A, Classics 10, Ronald Gregg, Cinema and Media Studies
Group B, Gates-Blake 133, Moishe Postone, History

5:15 p.m. Reception and Dinner at La Petite Folie.
(Shuttle leaves Classics 10 at 5 pm).
7:30 p.m. Shuttle leaves La Petite Folie for the Ramada Inn.

Friday, March 4, 2005:

8:30 a.m. Shuttle leaves the Ramada Inn for the Classics 10 (1010 E. 59th St.)
9:00 a.m. “Title TBA”
William Sewell, Political Science

10:15 a.m. Coffee
10:30 a.m. " Habermas and the Black Public Sphere"
Jacqueline Stewart, English Language and Literature

11:45 p.m. Report on Discussion Groups
12:00 p.m. Lunch and Participant Discussion Groups
to 1:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided and will be available in your discussion rooms.
Group A, Classics 10, Ronald Gregg, Cinema and Media Studies
Group B, Gates-Blake 133, Moishe Postone, History

2:00 p.m. Free Afternoon (Shuttle leaves Classics 10 for the Ramada Inn.)

Saturday, March 5, 2005:

8:30 a.m. Shuttle leaves the Ramada Inn for Classics 10 (1010 E. 59th St.).

9:00 a.m. “Title”
Ronald Gregg, Cinema and Media Studies

10:15 a.m. Coffee
10:30 a.m. Report on Discussion Groups
10:45 a.m. Participant Discussion Groups
Both discussion groups will meet as one in Classics 10.

12:00 p.m. Adjournment (Shuttle leaves Classics 10 for the Ramada Inn.)

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