General Information
2007-2008 Speaker Series
Thursday, September 20, 2007, 12:00pm
Professor Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley)
"Crises of Money" (a lecture on the concept of trauma in postcolonial cultural critique and a critical assessment of its feasibility in describing how power operates today in light of the East Asian financial crisis of 1997)
Somerville House Rm. 3317
Friday, September 21, 2007, 1:00pm
Professor Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley)
"The Untimely Secret of Democracy" (a specialized seminar on Derrida’s later work on democracy to come)
Centre for Theory & Criticism, Somerville House Rm. 2348
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 2:00pm
Ewa Ziarek (University of Buffalo)
"On Revolution: Arendt, Kristeva, and Suffrage Militancy"
Centre for Theory & Criticism, Somerville House Rm. 2348
Thursday, February 7, 2008, 5:00pm
Erin Manning (Concordia)
"From Biopolitics to the Biogram or How Leni Riefenstahl Moves Through Fascism"
Centre for Theory & Criticism, Somerville House Rm. 2348
Thursday, March 27, 2008, 1:00pm
George Saliba (Columbia University)
"Europe and the Islamic World in Pre-Modern Times: Transmission of Scientific Ideas"
Siebens Drake Research Institute, Room 217
