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The Indispensability of Canonical Thinking
Joy Connolly, NYU
Time: Date: Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Joy Connolly, NYU
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Stoicism and the Arts: From Zeno of Citium Through Charles le Brun
Thomas Habinek, University Southern California
Time: Date: Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Thomas Habinek, University Southern California
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The Sublime, With and Without Longinus
James Porter, UC Irvine
Time: Date: Location: 142 Dwinelle Hall - Netstrick Room
Speaker: James Porter, UC Irvine
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Rhetoric Commencement
Time: Date: Location: Zellerbach Hall
Rhetoric Commencement at Zellerbach Hall Monday, May 20, 2-4 pm
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Think Acts
A. Aloisia Moser
Time: Date: Location: 340 Moffitt, BCNM Commons (next door to Free Speech Cafe)
Speaker: A. Aloisia Moser
A. Aloisia Moser (Visiting Scholar, Rhetoric) "Think Acts: What Kant Could Have Learned From Austin" It occurred to Kant that while he described the elements of the mind and…
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Towards a Republican Political Theology
David Selby
Time: Date: Location: 340 Moffitt, BCNM Commons (next door to Free Speech Cafe)
Speaker: David Selby
David Selby (Visiting Scholar, Rhetoric) "Towards a Republican Political Theology: Alexis de Tocqueville as Critic of Carl Schmitt" This paper puts the early works of Carl Schmitt in the…
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Ecphrasis and the Incomplete in the Virgilian Corpus
Raymond Kania
Time: Date: Location: 370 Dwinelle
Speaker: Raymond Kania
Raymond Kania, PhD (University of Chicago, Classics), Lecturer, Rhetoric and Classics "Ecphrasis and the Incomplete in the Virgilian Corpus"
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Amateurdom and its Discontents
Lisa Gitelman (NYU)
Time: Date: Location: Dwinelle 370
Speaker: Lisa Gitelman (NYU)
"Amateurdom” and “fandom” were realms of amateur cultural production, the former self-articulated around 1870 and the latter around 1930. Could these “-doms” offer a resource for thinking about today’s…
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Regarding the Genocide of Others
Andrew Herscher (Michigan)
Time: Date: Location: Dwinelle 142
Speaker: Andrew Herscher (Michigan)
Andrew Herscher is an Associate Professor in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Violence Taking Place: The…
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The Global Supply Chain of Readymade Dreams
Winnie Wong
Time: Date: Location: 142 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Winnie Wong
Winnie Wong is a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. She is the author of After the Copy: China and the Readymade (forthcoming from University of…
