Dr. Lisa Guenther
National Scholar in Political Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies, Queen's University
November 7, 2019
Dr. Lisa Guenther, Queen's University's National Scholar in Political Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies will deliver the annual Elaine Stavro Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Theory, Politics & Gender Studies. She is the author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives (2013) and The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction (2007), and co-editor of Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration (2015) with Geoffrey Adelsberg and Scott Zeman. Her interests include Political Philosophy, Critical Prison Studies, Continental Philosophy, Feminism, Philosophy of Race.
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Dr. Diana Coole
Professor, Political and Social Theory, Birkbeck University of London
November 17, 2016
Dr. Diana Coole is professor of Political and Social Theory, Birkbeck University of London. Her research interests include modern and contemporary political and social theory. Her work has focused primarily on the critical theory of the early Frankfurt School and its influences (Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber), existential phenomenology (Merleau- Ponty in particular), poststructuralism (especially Foucault) and feminism. Professor Coole is the author of several articles and books including, Women in Political Theory: From Ancient Misogyny to Contemporary Feminism, Second Edition; Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism; Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics after Anti-Humanism; The New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency and Politics, edited with S. Frost. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto.
DR. KIMBERLY HUTCHINGS
Professor, Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University
November 24, 2015
Dr. Hutchings is professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests are in ethical and political theory and philosophy, including international and feminist theory, the political theory of violence and Hegelian thought. She is the author of Kant, Critique and Politics; International Political Theory; Hegel and Feminist Philosophy; Time and World Politics; and Global Ethics.
dr. lauren berlant
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
October 14, 2014
Dr. Berlant will address humorlessness as ontology, performance, and affect; as threat and as aspiration. The focus of the archive is political, and asks how the encounter with humorlessness structures the political scene and encounter. Its cases range from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers’ documentary, Finally Got the News (1970) to the contemporary political art of Steve McQueen, William Pope.L, and Claire Pentecost. The talk is, and is not, humorless.
dr. Jacques ranciere
Professor, Philosophy, University of Paris-VIII (St. Denis)
September 30, 2013
Jacques Rancière is emeritus professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII (St. Denis). He has published widely across the humanities and social sciences. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People,The Emancipated Spectator, and Aisthesis: Scenesfrom the Aesthetic Regime of Art.
Dr. Phillippa Levine
Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor, Humanities, University of Texas at Austin, co-director of University's Program in British Studies
September 27, 2012
Nakedness, for the Victorians, was a complex and slippery politics as well as aesthetics. This talk shows how Victorian ideas of nudity and nakedness were closely related to Britain’s experience of empire. Analysing nakedness in the worlds of science, high art, and popular culture, this talk examines enduring Victorian ideas about the link between savagery and lack of clothing. Philippa Levine is Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin and Co Director of the University’s Program in British Studies. She has published in the areas of Victorian feminism, the development of the historical profession in nineteenth-century England, and, more recently, on the British Empire.
Dr. Wendy Brown
Professor, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
September 22, 2011
Dr. Wendy Brown, professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, questions whether Western secular society is as religiously neutral as it claims to be by examining the proposed and enacted “burka bans” in Europe and North America.
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