All lectures and seminars are free and
open to the Cornell and Ithaca communities.
The public lectures will be held in Hollis E. Cornell
Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
Tuesday, June 19th, 4:00pm
Dominick LaCapra, Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies,
Cornell Univ.
Witnessing, Trauma, and the Sublime
Monday, June 25th, 4:00pm
Bruce Robbins, Prof. of English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University
Praise and Blame in Transnational Perspective
Tuesday, June 26th, 4:00pm
William Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Prof., Dept.of
Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
The Volatility of Capitalism
Monday, July 2nd, 4:00pm
Ann Laura Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University
Prof. of Anthropology and Historical Studies, New
School for Social Research
The Pulse of the Archive: Thinking through Colonial
Ontologies
Tuesday, July 3rd, 4:00pm
Stanley Fish, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University
Professor of Humanities and Professor of Law, Florida
International University
Save The World On Your Own Time: What College and
University Professors Should and Shouldn't Do
Monday, July 9th, 4:00pm
Marjorie Levinson, F.L. Huetwell Professor, Dept.
of English, Univ.of Michigan
A Motion and a Spirit: Romancing Spinoza
Tuesday, July 10th, 4:00pm
Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service
Prof. of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago
Liberty of Conscience: The Attack on the American
Tradition of Religious Equality
Monday, July 16th, 4:00pm
Eric Cheyfitz, Ernest I. White Prof. of American Studies
and Humane Letters, Cornell Univ.
What Is A Just Society? Native American Philosophies
and the Limits of Capitalism's Imagination
Tuesday, July 17th, 4:00pm
Daniel Boyarin, Hermann P.and Sophia Taubman Prof.
of Talmudic Culture, Depts of Rhetoric and Near Eastern
Studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley
The Greatest Sophist of Them All: Thucydides Against
Dialogue
Monday, July 23rd, 4:00pm
Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English,
Cornell University
Lyric Address
Tuesday, July 24th, 4:00pm
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Prof.in
the Humanities, Columbia Univ.
The Ethical Implications of Gramsci's Educational
Theory
For further information, please contact the School
of Criticism and Theory:
607-255-9274
A.D. White House
27 East Ave.
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-1101
