2024-25 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:   

Thursday, February 13, 2025
12:00 p.m. EST

via ZOOM

Dr. David Marriott

"Without Truth: Fanon’s concept of confession"

David Marriott poster

This essay is a study of the various meanings of confession: as truth, judgement, law and being. It puts forwards two propositions–on truth and lie; and on social death–in its exploration of what gets excluded from the term, confession, as it applies to native life. In an original reading of truth as confession, this study also asks why native confession, in several works by Frantz Fanon, say, is deemed to be neither truthful nor merely a lying relation, but a kind of n’est pas that can never be apprehended at the point of confessing it.

 

Watch some of our previous talks on YouTube

Past Speakers:

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