Events Archive

Tracking Corporate Personhood in Frank Norris’ The Octopus: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Corporate Character

Eugene McCarthy, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley Department of Rehtoric

Law and Contemporary Theory Working Group Spring Talks and Workshops Abstract: In this dissertation chapter, Eugene McCarthy provides a socio-legal reading of Frank Norris’ The Octopus (1901), the naturalist novel…

Moral Habituation in the Law: Rethinking the Ethics of the Sharī‘a

Junaid Quadri

 Law and Contemporary Theory Working Group – Spring Talks and Workshops Junaid Quadri, Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago Abstract: Modern writing on Islamic…

Biographies of Concepts in the Human and Social Sciences

Please register by sending an email to wimmer@berkeley.edu and to get access to pre-circulated papers! Link to shared folder with papers: https://www.dropbox.com/l/nC5cg5QkuJFGrkZ4sWiyer (password required) This two-day symposion brings together a…

Unlikely Life: Interrogating the Limits of the Biological

Sophia Roosth, Harvard University

Rhetoric of Rhetoric Mini-Conference

The Rhetoric of Rhetoric workshop is hosting a mini-conference regarding Ancient Rhetorical Theory. Presenters include: Michael Dalebout: "Model over Method: Originality in Isocratean Rhetoric" Kathleen Powers: "Antigone’s Offspring (From…

Religious and Civil Inequality in Egyptian and European Courts

Saba Mahmood, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Law and Contemporary Theory Working Group Fall Talks and Workshops In this workshop we will discuss a chapter from Professor Mahmood’s forthcoming book The Minority Condition: Religious Difference in…

Inter/Nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies

Dr. Steven Salaita

 Dr. Steven Salaita is the author of six books, most recently Israel’s Dead Soul (Temple University Press, 2011). Sponsors include: Native American Studies Program, Asian American and Asian Diaspora…

In the Site of the Strange: A Pearl River Delta Roundtable

Speakers: Marco Cenzatti (Urban Planning), Tim Choy (Anthropology), Margaret Crawford (Architecture), Aihwa Ong (Anthropology), Lanchih Po (International Studies), Winnie Wong (Rhetoric) Sponsor: Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) The Pearl River…

Rethinking Materialism: The Althusserian Swerve

Banu Bargu

The posthumously published writings of Louis Althusser reveal an effort, however fragmentary, to rethink materialism on the basis of contingency and the absence of teleology. Althusser argues that there…

Walter Benjamin and the Messianic Promise of International Law

Richard Joyce

Law and Contemporary Theory Working Group Fall Talks and Workshops This talk will consider what Walter Benjamin’s thought on messianism might reveal about the relationship between international law and…