Public Events, 2008 Summer Session
All events will be held in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Tuesday, June 17th, 4:00pm
Dominick LaCapra, Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University
“’Traumatropisms’: From Trauma to the Sublime?”
Monday, June 23rd, 4:00pm
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia
University
“Economies of Abandonment”
Tuesday, June 24th, 4:00pm
Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department
of English, Harvard University
TBA
Monday, June 30th, 4:00pm
Haun Saussy, Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University
“The First Media Theory”
Tuesday, July 1st, 4:00pm
Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the English Department,
Director of the Center for the Humanities and Director of the Center for Joint
Projects at Washington University
“John Coltrane’s Eureka and the Redemptive Death of Jazz”
Monday, July 7th, 4:00pm
Wendy Brown, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
“The Secular and the Profane: Religion, Capitalism, Marx, and Obama”
Tuesday, July 8th, 4:00pm
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature,
University of California, Berkeley
“Arendt’s Quarrel with Eichmann’s Kant”
Monday, July 14th, 4:00pm
J.M. Bernstein, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Department
of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
“The Demand for Ugliness: Picasso’s Bodies”
Tuesday, July 15th, 4:00pm
Hal Foster, Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor and Chair of Art &
Archaeology, Princeton University
“’The Gorgon’s Head of a Boundless Terror Smiles out of
the Fantastic Destruction’: Modern Art and Mimetic Excess”
Monday, July 21st, 4:00pm
Carolyn J. Dean, Professor of History and Modern Culture and Media, Brown
University
“Styles of Dying and the Rhetoric of Victim Narratives”
Tuesday, July 22nd, 4:00pm
Jonathan Culler, Class of ‘16 Professor of English, Cornell University
“Theory of the Lyric”