Events Archive

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…

Pasolini’s “Petrolio”

Karen Pinkus

The Ringrose Lecture Karen Pinkus, Professor, Italian and Comparative Literature, Cornell University "Pasolini’s Petrolio: Fossil Fuel, Chaotic Desire, Anthropocene Narratives" Thursday, Sept. 18, 5 pm Nestrick Room (Dwinelle 142)…

Rhetoric Commencement 2012

The commencement ceremony for Rhetoric will take place Thursday, May 18 at Zellerbach Hall, from 2-4 pm. There will be a reception following for graduates and guests.

Rhetoric and Film & Media Commencement Celebration

Islam and Religious Pluralism?

Roxanne L. Euben (Wellesley)

The Goldman School of Public Policy presents a research lecture by Roxanne L. Euben, Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. "Questions about…

Theory/Post-Theory: An Interdisciplinary Conference

The Graduate Students Association of the Department of Rhetoric invites you to "Theory/Post-Theory." This one-day conference aims to consider the role, value, and efficacy of theory in the humanities…

Plasticity and Pathology: a Workshop

Plasticity and Pathology: History and Theory of Neural Subjects Friday, April 11 1.00 pm Welcome from Workshop Organizers (David Bates and Nima Bassiri) 1.15 – 3.15 pm Session One…

The Enlightenment: A Workshop

The Enlightenment: A Workshop Friday, February 21, 4 pm (3335 Dwinelle) Plenary address:David Bell (Princeton) "Militarism in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution" Saturday, February 22, 9.30 am –…

The Indispensability of Canonical Thinking

Joy Connolly, NYU