We Proudly Present our Keynote Speaker:

William Haver

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature,
Director of Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture
University of Binghamton, SUNY

Author of The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS, and
Teratological Investigations: For a Political Experience of Thinking (London: Routledge, forthcoming).

William Haver teaches in the department of comparative literature at Binghamton University, where he also directs the program in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture. He has written The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS (1996). More recently, he has written essays on Sade, Genet, Rancière, and Marx; he has been giving seminars on Deleuze (with and without Guattari), Marx, Negri, and Nishida Kitarō. His constant preoccupation throughout has been with the question of the constitution, articulation, and concept of an “in-common” that necessarily and essentially exceeds any possible epistemological objectification.

His talk for this conference, “Communist Resistance,” attempts to think about the ways in which the event of resistance constitutes the common, the ways in which the common is at stake in the fact of resistance.

Click here to view Professor Haver's Curriculum Vitae