Ring Festival LA
A conference to be held at UCLA June 1 & 2, 2010, as part of Ring Festival LA
Why have a conference on Richard Wagner’s operas?
Why have a festival in LA centered on Wagner’s Ring?
The conference will be part of the city-wide Ring Festival LA that will surround the first complete cycles of Los Angeles Opera’s new production of Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, directed by Achim Freyer and conducted by James Conlon. The conference will examine various aspects of Wagner’s music, including its legacy in Southern California, as a major influence on the history of film music and exile culture; and its continuing importance in contemporary music, art, and philosophy. The conference will also examine Wagner’s anti-semitism, and the issues that it raises in both of those cultural contexts … READ MORE
New Book: Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba
Hamlet or Hecuba: The Intrusion of the Time into the Play
by Carl Schmitt
Translated by David Pan and Jennifer R. Rust
Introduction by Jennifer R. Rust and Julia Reinhard Lupton
Preface and Afterword by David Pan
Available October 1, 2009
Though Carl Schmitt is best known for his legal and political theory, his 1956 Hamlet or Hecuba provides an innovative and insightful analysis of Shakespeare’s tragedy in terms of the historical situation of its creation. Arguing that the construction of the figure of Hamlet was shaped by the politics of James I’s succession to the throne, Schmitt uses this interpretation to develop a theory of myth and politics that serves as a cultural foundation for his concept of political representation. More than literary criticism or historical analysis, Schmitt’s book lays out a comprehensive theory of the relationship between aesthetics and politics that responds to alternative ideas developed by Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. Jennifer R. Rust and Julia Reinhard Lupton’s introduction places Schmitt’s work in the context of contemporary Renaissance studies, and David Pan’s afterword analyzes the links to Schmitt’s political theory. Presented in its entirety in an authorized translation, Hamlet or Hecuba is essential reading for scholars of Shakespeare and Schmitt alike.
“Beyond ancient tragedy and the Atreides, through the themes of vengeance, of the brother and of election, this essay also questions the political destiny of the ‘European spirit.’”
—Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship
“The intrusion into Shakespeare’s Hamlet by the highly controversial German legal and political theorist and constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt will raise eyebrows in the English-speaking world. The able English translation and introductions will engender a plethora of studies by Shakespeare scholars, and by political scientists and historians who will analyze subtexts in order to decipher Schmitt the man from Schmitt the thinker.”
—George Schwab, President, National Committee on American Foreign Policy
“In his remarkable essay on Hamlet, Schmitt argues that the playwright’s audience shared with him not only a horizon of cultural and historical knowledge; they were also, he claims, profoundly attuned to the symptomatic gaps and displacements, to the dream-like traces of a political unconscious, at work in the play. Here, Schmitt claims to have definitively deciphered what might be called the ‘latent dream thoughts’ of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy. It is, however, only by way of the inner tensions of Schmitt’s own essay, made vibrantly legible in the brilliant introduction by this volume’s editors, that the reader can fully grasp the ways in which the traumatic entry of historical time into the realm of aesthetic play generates Hamlet’s persistent force as the paradigmatic tragedy of modern European theater.”
—Eric Santner, Professor of Germanic Studies, The University of Chicago
“Like Hamlet’s Mousetrap, Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba is an incendiary provocation, one that still has the power to catch the conscience of Shakespeare critics half a century later. Schmitt’s deep reflections on the nature of tragedy, the relations between the real and the aesthetic, and the barbarity of Elizabethan theater, will engage and sometimes irk Shakespeareans of every stripe. His critical practice—poised somewhere between a Kantian contest of faculties and an Anschluss—grates productively against the more pacific versions of interdisciplinarity that reign today. And Rust and Lupton’s fine introduction lays bare the religious, political, and philosophical stakes of Schmitt’s Shakespearean encounter.”
—Richard Halpern, Professor of English, The Johns Hopkins University
New issue of S on Islam and Psychoanalysis
The on line journal S has a new special issue on Islam and Psychoanalysis, edited by Sigi Jöttkandt and Joan Copjec. You can get it here
Table of Contents
Editorial
Islam and Psychoanalysis
Sigi Jöttkandt, Joan Copjec
Articles
Cogito and the Subject of Arab Culture
Julien Maucade
To Believe or to Interpret
Jean-Michel Hirt
The Veil of Islam
Fethi Benslama
Jannah
Nadia Tazi
Four Discourses on Authority in Islam
Christian Jambet
The Glow
Fethi Benslama
Dialogues
Translations of Monotheisms
Fethi Benslama, Jean-Luc Nancy
The Qur’an and the Name-of-the-Father
Keith Al-Hasani
Book Reviews
Reading Backwards: Constructing God the Impossible in Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
Benjamin Bishop
The Powers of the Negative: The Mathematic102-106
Etienne Balibar on Spinoza's Three Gods
Here is a link to a talk by Etienne Balibar on “Spinoza’s Three Gods,” delivered at Birbeck University’s Institute for the Humanities as part of the conference
“Thinking with Spinoza: Politics, Philosophy and Religion”
on 7th & 8th May, 2009.
DESIGN YOUR LIFE!
Ellen and Julia Lupton’s new book in now available; you can buy it here
Here is a link to excerpts from the book.
And here is a link to their website, the origin of the book.
(I’ll have to talk to Ellen’s husband, Abbott Miller, about writing a companion volume, “Design Your Wife” ...)
Jewish Studies at UC Irvine
Jewish Studies in the University, Community, and Global Society
Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 4:30-6:00pm
135 Humanities Instructional Building UC Irvine
This event is free and open to all. Please join us for a catered reception after the discussion.
The Panelists
Sarah Bunin Benor
Assistant Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College
Daniel Boyarin
Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of
Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley
Susannah Heschel
Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
Kenneth Reinhard
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
University of California, Los Angeles
Please direct questions about the event to Glenn Levine at glevine@uci.edu
OUTRAGE: a film by Kirby Dick
OPENS TODAY at the Sunset 5 in West Hollywood and in
New York, NY: Chelsea Cinema 9
Washington, DC: E Street Cinema
San Francisco, CA: Landmark Theaters Embarcadero Center
Philadelphia, PA: Ritz at the Bourse
Amy Hollywood at UCLA
The UCLA Department of English invites you to a seminar by
Amy Hollywood
“Love and the Heretic”
Monday, May 11, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
Royce Hall, Room 306
Reception to Follow
Amy Hollywood, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School, is a historian of Christian thought specializing in mysticism, with strong interests in feminist theory, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and continental philosophy. Her first book, The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995) received the International Congress of Medieval Studies’ Otto Grundler Prize for the best book in medieval studies. Her second book, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (University of Chicago Press, 2002), deals with Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Luce Irigaray and their fascination with excessive bodily and affective forms of Christian mysticism. Professor Hollywood is currently co-editing, with Patricia Beckman, the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism and completing a book of essays to be called “Acute Melancholia.” She is also the editor of the Gender, Theory, and Religions Series for Columbia University Press.
This event is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation Grant for Transforming the Humanities at UCLA and is organized by Lowell Gallagher (English)
Two Talks By Catherine Malabou
May 5 @ UC Irvine (5:00 PM in Student Center, Moss Cove A): “How is Subjectivity Undergoing Deconstruction Today? Philosophy, Auto-Hetero-Affection, and Neurobiological Emotion”
May 6 @ UCLA (5:00 PM, Royce Hall 314), “On ‘Post-traumatic subjectivity’”
(Recommended reading: Slavoj Zizek, “Descartes and the Post-Traumatic Subject”; download here)
Catherine Malabou teaches philosophy at the University of Paris X-Nanterre. She is the author of The Future of Hegel (Routledge 2005), Counterpath (with Jacques Derrida), (Stanford 2004), What should we do with our brain? ( Fordham, 2008), Plasticity at the Eve of Writing (Forthcoming, Columbia University Press, 2009), Le Change Heidegger, du fantastique en philosophie (Paris: Éditions Léo Scheer, 2004), Plasticité (Paris: Éditions Léo Scheer, 1999), and Les nouveaux blesses, de Freud a la neurologie: penser les traumatismes contemporains (Bayard, 2007). Her work consists mainly in articulating the concept of plasticity at the crossing of philosophy (dialectic and deconstruction) and neuroscience.
Paul de Man Conference
The Paul de Man Project presents:
Property, Sovereignty, and the Theotropic: Paul de Man’s Political Archive
April 24-25, 2009
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
The University of California, Irvine
135 Humanities Instructional Building
Free and open to the public
Speakers include:
Etienne Balibar, Stephen Barker, Walter Benn Michaels, Ellen Burt, Cynthia Chase, Tom Cohen, Steve Mailloux, Nigel Mapp, J. Hillis Miller, Kevin Newmark, Marc Redfield, Andrzej Warminksi.
FRIDAY APRIL 24 2009
135 Humanities Instructional Building
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Coffee
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Martin McQuillan:
“Introductory Remarks”
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Erin Obodiac:
“Remarks”
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Cynthia Chase:
“The Unfinished Portable Rousseau”
(introduced by John Hicks)
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Coffee Break
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Marc Redfield:
“Mistake in Paul de Man: Violence, Quotation, Reading”
(introduced by Julien Weber)
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Stephen Barker:
“Rhetoric and Rausch: de Man on Nietzsche on Value and Style”
(introduced by Jaye Austin Williams)
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tom Cohen:
“Toxic Assets: Suicidal “deconstruction,” de Man’s remains, and Hillis’ cat, Rosie”
(introduced by Brandon Granier)
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Ellen Burt:
“Reading Spectacles in Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert”
(introduced by Brook Haley)
5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Etienne Balibar:
“Lovence in Rousseau’s Julie où la Nouvelle Héloïse”
(introduced by Lahela Minerbi)
SATURDAY APRIL 25 2009
135 Humanities Instructional Building
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Coffee
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Walter Benn Michaels:
“Normativity, Materiality and Inequality: The politics of the letter in Paul de Man’s manuscripts”
(introduced by Katrina Harack)
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Kevin Newmark:
“Bewildering: The Passage from Language to Politics in the Writing of Paul de Man”
(introduced by Ronald Mendoza-de Jesus)
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Coffee Break
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Andrzej Warminski:
“Lightstruck: ‘Hegel on the Sublime’”
(introduced by Mathew Schilleman)
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Nigel Mapp:
“Politics versus Theology? The Apotropaic in Paul de Man’s Rousseau”
(introduced by Ben Bishop)
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Martin McQuillan:
“Broken ‘Promises’: Rousseau, de Man, and Watergate”
(introduced by Garrett Bruen)
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Steve Mailloux:
“Theotropic Logology? Paul de Man and Kenneth Burke”
(introduced by Paul Dahlgren)
5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
J. Hillis Miller:
“Paul de Man at Work: What Good Is an Archive?”
(introduced by Megan Becker-Leckrone)
Avivah Zornberg at UCLA
The UCLA Department of English, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, and UCLA Hillel
invite you to a seminar by
Avivah Zornberg
“‘And I am a Stranger:’ Becoming Ruth”
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Royce Hall, Room 306
Reception to Follow
Background sources for Dr. Zornberg’s talk are posted to Lowell Gallagher’s web page, here
Slavoj Žižek at UCLA
The UCLA Mellon Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory and the Department of Comparative Literature present a lecture by
Slavoj Žižek
“From the Critique of Religion to the Critique of Political Economy”
Wednesday April 15 at 5:00 in 314 Royce Hall
Call for papers: Special Issue on Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba Special Issue Editors: David Pan and Julia Reinhard Lupton
Link to Telos CFP here
In 1956, Carl Schmitt published a short volume entitled Hamlet oder Hekuba: Der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel, based on a seminar he led on the topic at the Volkshochschule in Düsseldorf the year before. We seek submissions of approximately 6,000 words. Please direct inquiries to David Pan, Department of German, the University of California, Irvine, dtpan@uci.edu. and Julia Reinhard Lupton, Department of English, the University of California, Irvine jrlupton@uci.edu.
ECT seminar Spring 2009: Public Lectures
April 15 Slavoj Zizek (5:00, Royce 314): “From the Critique of Religion to the Critique of Political Economy”
May 6 Catherine Malabou (5:00, Royce 314), “On ‘Post-traumatic subjectivity’”
(Recommended reading: Slavoj Zizek, “Descartes and the Post-Traumatic Subject”; download here)
Mary Kelly at the Hammer: Thurs, Feb. 26, 7:00 PM
CANCELLED
Please join us for a talk by UCLA Professor of Art, and founding member of the Project in Experimental Critical Theory, Mary Kelly.
Mary Kelly has contributed extensively to the discourse of feminism and postmodernism through her large-scale narrative installations and theoretical writings. Her recent exhibitions include the 2008 Biennale of Sydney; Documenta XII, Kassel, 2007; WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2007; and the 2004 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She is the author of Post-Partum Document (1983) and Imaging Desire (1996).
Points of Departure: Political Theology on the Scenes of Early Modernity
The University of California, Irvine
Feburary 20-21, 2009
Speakers: Etienne Balibar, Victoria Kahn, Graham Hammill, Jacques Lezra, Jane O. Newman, Lowell Gallagher, David Pan, Jennifer Rust, and Adam Sitze
In literary studies, the phrase “political theology” has come to designate the common sources and affiliations shared by politics and religion, as well as their antagonisms and internal resistances. In Renaissance and early modern studies, “political theology” unites scholars who aim to develop some of the texts and impulses associated with critical theory (especially psychoanalysis, later deconstruction, and the Baroque meditations of Walter Benjamin) in a direction defined by issues of secularization, sovereignty, and biopower in the Renaissance and in contemporary life. The phrase “political theology” has its origins in medieval iconographies of sacred kingship as distributed and displayed in the political, dramatic, and artistic forms of European civilization, along with the critique of traditional sovereignty mounted by Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, and others in the seventeenth century. There is thus a special relationship between political theology as a critical approach to literature, politics, and thought and early modernity as a period and area of study.
This conference brings together established and emerging scholars in early modern studies who share an interest in the role that seventeenth century literature and thought has played in modern theories of secularization, sovereignty, and forms of life. We have asked speakers to address texts or moments from the early modern period that have served as a “point of departure” for later developments of politics and theology in modernity. Our goal is to present situated introductions to major figures in modern political theology, revealed through their exegetical engagements with early modern texts. The conference aims to make the case not only for the relevance of political theology as a critical discourse in the humanities today, but for the essential role that Renaissance and Baroque literature and thought have played in its pre- and post-histories.
A conference convened by Julia Lupton and Graham Hammill and sponsored by UCI’s Department of English, the Political Theology Group, the Program in Religious Studies, the Group for the Study of Early Cultures, and the Department of German, with additional support from UCLA’s Critical Religious Studies Group and the Department of English at SUNY Buffalo.
Ronald Judy to speak at UCLA
The UCLA Project in Experimental Critical Theory invites you to a lecture by
Ronald Judy
Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies
University of Pittsburgh,
on Wednesday, February 18 at 5:00 in Royce 306
entitled, “Reading Scenes in New World Literature in the Direction of Humanität”Podcast of Badiou's lecture
Podcast of lecture by Alain Badiou at UC Irvine on Feb. 7, 2009: Can the Word Jew be a Philosophical Concept?
Alain Badiou in Southern California (Winter 2009)
Feb 3: Negation and Formalization in the Avant-gardes of the 20th Century (Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, 7:30)
The lecture will be in the LA Times Theater at the Art Center’s main campus in Pasadena. The Art Center campus is located at 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA 91103. For parking, follow the driveway entrance to the end. Park anywhere in the lot and enter the building from the upper south wing, which is the closest and most convenient entrance. Signs will mark the way. The lecture is free and open to the public. Seating, however, is limited. Directions to the Art Center are available here
Feb. 4: Life and Immortality: Body-of-Truth and Incorporation (5:00, Royce 314, UCLA)
Feb. 6: Toward a New Signification of the Sartrean Idea of ‘Engaged Artist’ (Cal Arts; 6:00 pm in room F200)
Feb. 7: Can the Word ‘Jew’ be a Philosophical Concept? (3:00 135 Humanities Instructional Building, UC Irvine)
UCLA Art MFA students Graduate Reviews
Nancy Levene on Spinoza
The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies is sponsoring a seminar by Nancy Levene, Associate Professor of Religion at Indiana University:
Does Spinoza think the Bible (or any inanimate thing) is sacred?
on Wednesday, January 28 2009, 12:00pm – 2:00pm in 6275 Bunche Hall at UCLA.
Professor Levene’s essay can be downloaded here
Shaul Magid on Jesus and Judaism
The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies is sponsoring a seminar by Shaul Magid, Professor of Religion at Indiana University:
Reclaiming Jesus or Defending Judaism?
on Thursday, January 29 2009, 12:00pm – 2:00pm in 6275 Bunche Hall at UCLA.
Professor Magid’s paper can be downloaded here and a brief “Note to the Reader” can be downloaded here
BLOG for members of the ECT seminar
This is the blog for the ECT seminar, Winter 2009, on The Human;
please click to enter.
ECT Seminar and Lectures Begin
PUBLIC LECTURES this quarter:
Barbara Cassin: “Some Ways and Manners of Doing Things with Words” (Jan. 20, 6:00, Royce 314)
Alain Badiou:
Feb 3 “Negation and Formalization in the Avant-gardes of the 20th Century” (Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, 7:30)
Feb. 4 “Life and Immortality: Body-of-Truth and Incorporation” (5:00, Royce 314, UCLA)
Feb. 6 “Toward a New Signification of the Sartrean Idea of ‘Engaged Artist’” (Cal Arts; 6:00 pm in room F200)
Feb. 7 “Can the Word ‘Jew’ be a Philosophical Concept?” (3:00, 135 Humanities Instructional Building, UC Irvine)
Ronald Judy: “Reading Scenes in New World Literature in the Direction of Humanitas” (Feb. 18, 5:00, Royce 306)
NEXT QUARTER: lectures by Slavoj Zizek, Catherine Malabou, Quentin Meillassoux
The "Jewish Question" in French Philosophy After the Holocaust
Full Brochure here
The symposium will begin promptly at 10 AM with opening remarks made by David Myers (UCLA), Claudia Moatti (USC), The Honorable David Martinon (Consul General of France).
The rest of the symposium will be divided in to three sessions, as follows:
10:30 AM – Session I
Jews, Philosophy and the Jewish Question: Sartre, Levinas and Derrida
Chair: Eleanor Kaufman (UCLA)
Speakers: Jonathan Judaken (Memphis), Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan)
Respondent: Annette Aronowicz (Franklin & Marshall College)
1:30 PM – Session II
Naming “the jew”: Lyotard
Chair: Dominic Thomas (UCLA)
Speakers: Sarah Hammerschlag (Williams), Robin Podolsky (Jewish Theological Seminary)
Respondent: Lia Brozgal (UCLA)
3:30 PM – Session III
Israel and the Jewish Question: Badiou
Chair: John McCumber (UCLA)
Speakers: Joseph Litvak (Tufts), Jonathan Gil Harris (George Washington University)
Respondents: Claudia Moatti (USC), Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA)
Location: 314 Royce Hall
Contact: cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
Thinking Religion in a Post-Secular Age
Second Event:
Hent de Vries
The Johns Hopkins University
“The Future of Immortality: Claude Lefort,
Theodor W. Adorno, and the
Permanence of the Theologico-Political”
Monday, December 1, 2008
4:00 p.m.
Royce Hall, Room 314
Reception to Follow
Readings by Claude Lefort and Theodor Adorno available here and here
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First Event:
Jack Miles
University of California, Irvine
“Choices and Consequences in
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD RELIGIONS: An Early Glimpse of a Work in Progress”
Monday, November 10, 2008
4:00 p.m.
Royce Hall, Room 306
Reception to Follow
The UCLA Mellon Project in Experimental Critical Theory
A Multidisciplinary Project to Transform Research and Pedagogy in the Humanities at UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature
The seminar on New Directions in Experimental Critical Theory will meet Winter and Spring 2009 on Thursdays, 3:00-6:00 pm. Graduate students will take the seminar for credit, and faculty will also participate in the seminar. Each quarter, three or four distinguished visiting theorists will lead sessions of the seminar, and present a public lecture. The first quarter of the seminar will be on “the human” and the second will address “the collective.” Visitors scheduled for the winter are Barbara Cassin, Alain Badiou, Ronald Judy, and Etienne Balibar; visitors scheduled for the spring are Slavoj Zizek, Catherine Malabou, and Quentin Meillassoux.
UCLA graduate students interested in enrolling in the seminar should write a letter of application describing their interests and experience in critical theory by September 1st 2008 to:
The PECT Steering Committee
c/o Courtney Klipp
klipp@humnet.ucla.edu
Steering Committee
Kenneth Reinhard (English and Comparative Literature), Lead Facilitator
Ali Behdad (Comparative Literature)
Eleanor Kaufman (Comparative Literature and French)
Miwon Kwan (Art History)
John McCumber (German)
Doug Kellner (Education)
Stathis Gourgouris (Comparative Literature)
Kirstie McClure (Political Science and English)
Mary Kelly (Art)
Aamir Mufti (Comparative Literature)
Jason Smith (Art Center College of Design, Pasadena)
Nathan Brown (English, UC Davis)
Spencer Jackson (Comparative Literature, graduate rep)
Affiliated Faculty
Perry Anderson (History)
Kathleen McHugh (English and Film)
Janet Bergstrom (Film)
Shu-mei Shih (East Asian and CL)
Françoise Lionnet (French and CL)
Seiji Lippit (East Asian)
Lowell Gallagher (English)
Andrew Hewitt (German)
Tom Harrison (Italian)
David Myers (History)
Dominic Thomas (French)
Joe Bristow (English)
Todd Presner (German)
John Carriero (Philosophy)
Saree Makdisi (English)
David Myers (History)
Ra’anan Boustan (History and NELC)
Joshua Dienstag (Political Science)
Sandra Harding (Education)
Andrea Fraser (Art)
Saloni Mathur (Art History)
Steven Nelson (Art History)
George Baker (Art History)
David Macfadyen (Slavic)
Eric Jager (English)
Rafael Perez-Torres (English)
Mark McGurl (English)
Peter Lunenfeld (Design | Media Arts)
Sianne Ngai (English)
Seminar with Sigi Jöttkandt on Badiou, John Clare, and First Love
Please join us for a seminar with Sigi Jöttkandt.
Professor Jöttkandt will give a seminar entitled “I Mary You: The Two First Loves of John Clare” for the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA on Tuesday April 1, 5:00-7:00 in Humanities 348.
Texts to be discussed by Alain Badiou are The Scene of Two, and Meditation 20 and Meditation 23 from Being and Event, and poems by John Clare (follow links for texts).
Sigi Jöttkandt received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and now is a Researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in The Netherlands. She is the author of Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic (SUNY Press, 2005), and articles on James, Lacan, Beckett, and Language Poetry. Her next book, First Love: A Phenomenology of the One, from which her seminar will be drawn, is in progress.
CANCELLED Alain Badiou in Southern California (March 2008) CANCELLED
ALL BADIOU EVENTS In MARCH CANCELLED due to a family emergency
Albrecht Koschorke to speak at UCLA and UC Irvine
Albrecht Koschorke will speak at UC Irvine on Wednesday March 5th at 3:30 in 400D Murray Krieger Hall and on Thursday March 6th at 4:30 in the Faculty Center Redwood Room at UCLA on “Alphabetization and Enlightenment Sensibility”