Speaker Series
Each year The Speaker Series brings in several visiting guest lecturers. Speakers over the years have included Jean Baudrillard, Lauren Berlant, Peter Brooks, Norman Bryson, David Carroll, Anthony Cascardi, Wlad Godzich, Jean-Joseph Goux, Elizabeth Grosz, N. Katherine Hayles, Linda Hutcheon, Martin Jay, Michael Hardt, Agnes Heller, Barbara Johnson, David Farrell Krell, Murray Krieger, Arthur Kroker, Dominick LaCapra, Jerome McGann, J. Hillis Miller, Chantal Mouffe, Christopher Norris, Mark Poster, Richard Rorty, Charles Scott, Thomas Sebeok, Kaja Silverman, Gayatri Spivak, Bernard Stiegler, Samuel Weber, Hayden White, Slavoj Žižek, and many others.
Upcoming speaker:
Dr. Edwin Culp Morando
September 24, 20264:30PM
AHB 1B01
Dr. Kristina Mendicino
September 28, 2026
11:00AM
STVH 3165
Watch some of our previous talks on YouTube
Past Speakers:
Dr. Ray Brassier
Fatelessness: Freedom and Fatality after Marx
March 31, 2026
Dr. Melissa Adler
Peculiar Satisfaction:
Walter Benjamin, Thomas Jefferson and the Angels of History
January 27, 2026
Dr. Lambert Zuidervaart
The Best Defence…:
Rescuing Scientific Truth from Authoritarian Attacks and Academic Neglect
November 13, 2025
Dr. Peter Szendy
Pneumatopolitics: Respiring and Conspiring
October 21, 2025
Dr. David Marriott
Without Truth: Fanon’s concept of confession
February 13, 2025
Dr. Wayne Hope
The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Epochal Crises of Time
January 10, 2025
Dr. Adam Rosenthal
Life as Lineage, or: Literary Apocalypse and the Text of Evolution
October 25, 2024
Dr. David Roden
Nietzschean Hyperagents
September 18, 2024
Dr. Alenka Zupančič
The Logic of Fantasy
May 3, 2024
