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Colloquium Series Spring 2004 |
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| 2 February |
Andreas Huyssen |
Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: "Resistance to Memory: A Case for Public Forgetting" |
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Respondents: |
TBA |
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Background Reading: |
Andreas Huyssen, Present Pasts (Introduction and Chapter 1) |
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Time and Place: |
7:30pm, Levis Faculty Center |
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| 1 March |
The History of Unit for Criticism and
the Future of Theory: A Roundtable
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Cary Nelson, English on Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture;
Paula Treichler, ICR on
Cultural Studies;
Antoinette Burton, History on Postcolonial Studies and Beyond |
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Respondents: |
Peter Garrett, English |
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Background Reading: |
Selections from Unit books will be on Reserve |
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Time and Place: |
8pm, Levis Faculty Center |
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| 29 March |
Jacques Derrida: Philosophy on Film
A Film Screening and Discussion |
Screening of Derrida, a film by Kirby Dick and Amy Z. Kofman |
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Respondents: |
Tamara Matheson, History, "The Authority of the Image: French Intellectual Celebrity and Derrida the Film" |
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Background Reading: |
J.F. Lyotard, "A Podium without Podium";
Foucault, "The Masked Philosopher";
Deleuze, "Cinema and Space: The Frame"
Derrida and Stiegler, Echographies of Television |
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Time and Place |
7pm, 213 Gregory Hall |
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| 19 April |
The Frankfurt School Today:
A Roundtable |
Karin Crawford, Germanic Language and Literature;
Caren Irr, English, Brandeis University;
Mark Thompson, English and Comparative Literature |
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Respondents: |
TBA |
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Background Reading: |
Selections by Theodore Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Marx Horkheimer will be on reserve. |
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Time and Place |
8pm, Levis Faculty Center |