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2018-19 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.

Watch some of our previous talks on youtube!

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March 14, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Joan Copjec

Professor of Modern Culture & Media at Brown University

"From the Cloud to the Resistance"

Abbas Kiarostami has been described as both a modernist and a realist filmmaker.

In a certain sense neither description seems quite right. His "foregrounding" of the cinematic apparatus is not reflexive and his reality is indiscernible from simulation. Focusing on one specific scene from The Wind Will Carry Us, this lecture will attempt to unpack the logic of the relation between the camera and reality and answer the question, "What does it mean to have an image?"