Research Seminars 2010-2011

Cultural Studies Ph.D. students and faculty are inivted to read the materials recommended by our distinguished visitors for the seminar.

Some copies may be available for pickup at the Ph.D. office.

 

Seminar with Dorothea Olkowski

December 2, 2010

Reading:  Gilles Deleuze, "The idea of genesis in Kant's Aesthetics" Angelaki, vol 5, no. 3. (Dec 2000).

 

Seminar with George Marcus

14 Oct 2010, 10:00-12:00, Scott House 105.

Readings:

"Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography," in George E. Marcus, Ethnography Through Thick and Thin, Princeton University Press 1998, 80-104.

"Notes Toward an Ethnographic Memoir of Supervising Graduate Research through Anthropology's Decades of Transformation." in James Faubion and George E. Marcus eds. Fieldwork Is Not What It Used To Be, Cornell 2009, pp. 1-36.

 

Seminar with David Luban
January 20, 2011

Readings

David Luban, "Hannah Arendt as Theorist of International Criminal Law" forthcoming in International Criminal Law Review, special issue on Women and International Criminal Law.

David Luban, "State Criminality and the Ambition of International Criminal Law," forthcoming in edited book based on April 2009 conference at Western Ontario University on collective punishment.

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Jason Lafountain (Harvard Art History ABD)

will visit CUST 6200 and Professor Bordo's thesis writing group.
November 24, 2010 at 3:00 P.M.

Reading from A New Literary History of America, ed. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollers (Harvard, 2009), pp. 44-50.

Baudelaire Live!         Thursday 11 Nov 2010, 9pm at the Trend
An open mic for performances from the work of the French poet.  In French, in translation, with music.  With a performance by Credo 4 and music by DJ Fever.  Bohemian dress encouraged.

Sponsored by Trail College, the Graduate Students' Association and PhD Program in Cultural Studies.