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Unlikely Life: Interrogating the Limits of the Biological
Sophia Roosth, Harvard University
Time: - 4:00 PMDate: Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker: Sophia Roosth, Harvard University
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Final Stories, Foundational Theories: Trials of a Scientific Epic
Nasser Zakariya, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Time: Date: Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker: Nasser Zakariya, Chemical Heritage Foundation
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Abuses of Language, Wordplay, and the First Intercontinental Mathematical Theory
Michael Barany, Princeton University
Time: Date: Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker: Michael Barany, Princeton University
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Rhetoric of Rhetoric Mini-Conference
Time: - 5:00 AMDate: Location: 7415 Dwinelle Hall
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…
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Religious and Civil Inequality in Egyptian and European Courts
Saba Mahmood, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Time: - 10:00 PMDate: Location: Rhetoric Seminar Room, 7415 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: 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…
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Inter/Nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies
Dr. Steven Salaita
Time: - 3:00 AMDate: Location: 315 Wheeler Hall
Speaker: 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…
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The Right to Maim
Jasbir Puar
Time: Date: Location: Geballe Room
Speaker: Jasbir Puar
Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies Rutgers University This talk looks at the productivity of disablement as a war tactic of the Israeli state in Gaza and the West…
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In the Site of the Strange: A Pearl River Delta Roundtable
Time: - 2:00 AMDate: Location: 1995 University Avenue
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…
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Rethinking Materialism: The Althusserian Swerve
Banu Bargu
Time: - 4:00 AMDate: Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker: 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…
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Walter Benjamin and the Messianic Promise of International Law
Richard Joyce
Time: - 10:00 PMDate: Location: 7415 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: 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…