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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…
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Pasolini’s “Petrolio”
Karen Pinkus
Time: Date: Location: Nestrick Room (142 Dwinelle Hall)
Speaker: 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)…
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Rhetoric Commencement 2012
Time: Date: Location: Zellerbach Hall
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.
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Rhetoric and Film & Media Commencement Celebration
Time: - 4:00 PMDate: Location: Zellerbach Hall
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Islam and Religious Pluralism?
Roxanne L. Euben (Wellesley)
Time: Date: Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker: 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…
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Theory/Post-Theory: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Time: - 8:00 PMDate: Location: 308A Doe
Free and Open to the PublicThe 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…
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Plasticity and Pathology: a Workshop
Time: Date: Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
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…
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The Enlightenment: A Workshop
Time: - 5:00 PMDate: Location: Seaborg Room, Faculty Club
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 –…
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The Indispensability of Canonical Thinking
Joy Connolly, NYU
Time: Date: Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Joy Connolly, NYU