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The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science and the Great War
Stefanos Geroulanos
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the…
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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…
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On Twenty-first Century Postcolonialism
Dai Jinhua
The Center for Chinese Sudies Colloquium presents: Dai Jinhua, Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University Prof. Jinhua was a Departmental Resident Fellow under the Townsend…
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Rhetoric Spring Colloquium: Brian Massumi
Brian Massumi
Intensity The concept of intensity is a keystone of process-oriented philosophies, including those of Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze/Guattari, and Simondon, and often figures prominently in contemporary work classified under the…
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Rhetoric Spring Colloquium: Desmond Jagmohan
Desmond Jagmohan
Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech This paper explicates Ida B. Wells’s argument that journalists and leaders have a moral obligation to speak fearlessly. To do…
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Counter Exegesis: Medieval Kabbalistic Responses to Patristic Commentary
Dr. Jonatan Benarroch
Dr. Benarroch (Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University & Visiting Scholar at The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at Berkeley Law) will be presenting a lecture…
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Facing the Limits of Decoloniality from a Southeast Asian Peri-urban Forest
Juno Salazar Parreñas
CSEAS Lecture Wednesday, November 7, 2018 "Facing the Limits of Decoloniality from a Southeast Asian Peri-urban Forest" Juno Salazar Parreñas Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio…
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The Rhetoric Department Presents: Daniel Gross – Heidegger and Rhetoric
Daniel Gross
The purpose of this presentation is threefold: 1) to outline what exactly Heidegger found in Aristotle’s Rhetoric just as he was radically reformulating the history of Western metaphysics against…
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The Rhetoric Fall Colloquium Presents: The Mermaids, or Aiden through Wonderland
Elizabeth Povinelli
A Karrabing Film Collective Film In the not far future, Europeans can no longer survive for long periods outdoors in a land and seascape poisoned by capitalism, but Indigenous…
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The Rhetoric Fall Colloquium Presents: The Four Axioms of Existence
Elizabeth Povinelli
Elizabeth Povinelli is Professor of Gender Studies & Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University It’s hot and it’s getting hotter. As the machinery of capital extraction, industrialism,…
