Events Archive

Rhetoric Lecture – The Emergence of Desire: Notes toward a Political History of the Will in Foucault’s “Aveux de la Chair”

Daniele Lorenzini

The Emergence of Desire: Notes toward a Political History of the Will in Foucault’s “Aveux de la Chair” In this paper on Foucault’s fourth volume to The History of…

Rhetoric 200 Seminar

Daniele Lorenzini

Please contact Prof. James Porter to attend this session of Rhetoric 200. Daniele Lorenzini is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie ‘Move-in Louvain’ Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre Prospéro (Université Saint-Louis –…

How Not to Write Like a Lawyer: The Art of Genre Transgression

Patricia Williams

Patricia Williams, the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, is a scholar of race, gender, and law. A prolific writer across a variety of genres, she…

On the Political Ontology of the Dispositif

Davide Panagia

The Rhetoric Fall Colloquium Series presents Davide Panagia: The ambition of this paper is to show the extent to which the turn to the language of dispositif in Foucault’s…

TDPS Speaker Series: Professor Shannon Jackson, Sep. 13, 4-5pm

Shannon Jackson

The Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies presents the TDPS Speaker Series, Thursday, Sep. 13th, 4-5pm in 44B Dwinelle Hall. Shannon Jackson, TDPS Professor of Rhetoric and Performance…

Film/Rhetoric Dept | Spring 2018 Commencment Ceremony – Keynote Speaker

Charles Ferguson PhD

Charles received his B.A in Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1978 and obtained a PhD in Political Science from MIT in 1989.   In 1994, Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies which he…

Rhetoric Spring Colloquium: Samuel Moyn, “Human Rights in the Neoliberal Maelstrom”

Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Yale University, will be speaking on "Human Rights in the Neoliberal Maelstrom" on Thursday, March 15th at 3:30pm in 820 Barrows…

Rhetoric Spring Colloquium:
Jacques Rancière, “Shifting Borders: Art, Politics and Ethics Today”

Save the date! Jacques Rancière, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School at Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII: Vincennes—Saint-Denis, will be giving a…

Rhetoric Spring Colloquium: Richard Hunter, “Hesiod, the Presocratics and Hellenistic Poetry”

Save the Date! The Rhetoric Spring Colloquium presents a lecture by Richard Hunter, Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge University, entitled, "Hesiod, the Presocratics and Hellenistic Poetry," on Friday, February 9th…

Rhetoric Fall Colloquium:
Michael Hardt – Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

Michael Hardt, Duke University

Co-sponsored by the Departments of English, Geography, and Italian, the programs in Critical Theory and Global Urban Humanities, the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, and the Townsend Center.…