2018 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!
Upcoming speakers:
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September 28, 2018
Dr.
Philosophy Department, Douglas College
"Heidegger, Nietzsche and Nihilism"
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*WINTER 2019*
Joan Copjec
Professor of Modern Culture & Media at Brown University
"Correlation Iranian Style, or: Kiarostami between Lacan and Corbin"
Past Speakers include:
The Ghost Of Totalitarianism: Between Politics and Philosophy
March 21, 2018
Altars for the Living: Shadow Ground, Aesthetic Memory, and the U.S/Mexico Borderlands
March 16, 2018
Playing Stories: Never Alone, Indigeneity, and the Structures of Settler Colonialism
November 20, 2017
Rust Theory
November 10, 2017
Patrick Gamsby
The Dialectic of One-Dimensional Man
September 29, 2017
The Black in the Cul-de-Sac: Afro-Pessimism as the Crisis of Critical Theory
March 23, 2017
Rey Chow
Foucault, Race, and Racism
March 10, 2017
Eric Santner
The Debt Drive: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neoliberalism
February 10, 2017
Catherine Malabou
Passionate Disattachments: The Work of Catherine Malabou
February 5 & 6, 2016
