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Rhetoric Alumni Larry S. McGrath

Larry S. McGrath

Register Here Former UC Berkeley student and Rhetoric department alumni Larry S. McGrath will be giving a Zoom talk about his professional experience after graduation as well as any…

Susan Buck-Morss: Year 1

Susan Buck-Morss

The book YEAR 1 (MIT Press, forthcoming 2021) is a project in the reconfiguration of knowledge. The focus is on the first century that starts the numerical count down…

Hearst Museum Presents Weaving Language: New Reflections on Corn Husk Bags

  Readings of new work in Ni:mi:pu: (Nez Perce) and English, inspired by the tradition of corn husk bag weaving amongst Plateau peoples.   About this Event This event…

YEAR 1 (POSTPONED)

Susan Buck-Morss

The book YEAR 1 (MIT Press, forthcoming 2021) is a project in the reconfiguration of knowledge.  The focus is on the first century that starts the numerical count down to…

Gandhi and the Hazards of Action

Karuna Mantena

Across the 20th century, a whole range of Marxist, existentialist, progressive, anarchist, and anti-colonial thinkers and activists wrestled with the legitimacy and efficacy of new forms of mass political…

From Colonialism to Third Worldism? Alexandre Kojève and the Developing Nations (1945-1968)

Danilo Scholz

Located at the intersection of international history and intellectual history, this talk reconstructs the postwar trajectory of the Russian-born philosopher Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968). If Kojève’s interpretation of Hegel’s Phenomenology…

The Rhetoric Fall Colloquium Presents: “AS ON THE FIRST DAY”: THE STRUGGLE OF FIRSTS IN HEIDEGGER’S “FIRST ELABORATION” OF HIS “ORIGIN OF THE WORK OF ART”

Peter Fenves

The primary thesis of this paper is that Heidegger’s “First Elaboration” of the thoughts that would emerge as his essay on “The Origin of the Work of Art” provides…

Theories of the Global South

Donna Honarpisheh and Devin Choudhury

The Program in Critical Theory’s Fall 2019 working group, Theories of the Global South, will host its third meeting on October 25 from 12-2 pm in 7415 Dwinelle Hall. To prepare,…

Berkeley Book Chats – Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between

Berkeley Book Chats

The Townsend Center for the Humanities Presents another installment of it’s Berkeley Book Chats series, Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between. With Marianne…

The Berkeley Center for New Media Presents – The Human Computer in the Stone Age: Technology, Prehistory, and the Redefinition of the Human after World War II

Stefanos Geroulanos

After World War II, new concepts and metaphors of technology helped transform the understanding of human history all the way back to the australopithecines. Using concepts from cybernetics and…