1980s: Feminism, Modernism, and Culture

Stanley Hauerwas

Lecture: “Communities of Character: Human Nature as History”

Stanley Fish

Lecture: “Communities of Interpretation, or What Makes and Interpretation Acceptable”
Seminar: “Short People Got No Reason To Live, or How to Recognize an Irony When You See One”

Marvin Bell

Seminar: “Poetry & Character”

Richard Palmer

Lectures: “Heidegger and the Redefinition of Interpretation” and “Heidegger and the Redefinition of Language”

Susan Miller

Lecture: “Rhetorical Ethos: Language & Morality”

Roland Stromberg

Lecture: “When Human Character Changed: The 1910 Revolution in Consciousness”

Stephen Watson

Lecture: “Reason and Interpretation: On the Deconstruction of Hermenuetic Strategies”

Anson Rabinbach

Lecture: “The Age of Exhaustion: Energy and Fatigue at the End of the 19th Century”

Michael Kraft

Lecture: “Hannah Arendt’s Thinking”

Robert Plant Armstrong

Lectures: “The Temporal Dimension,” “The Spatial Dimension,” and “The Cultural Dimension”

Ernie DeMaio

Lecture: “Robots – Gravediggers of Capitalism”

Yehuda Yannay

Lecture: “Contemporary Music and Ideas: The Composer’s Milieu”

Mark Poster

Lecture: “Foucault, Marx, History”

Jane Hood

Lecture: “My Uncle EAP: Industrial Social Welfare Programs and the Family”

Robert Bellah

Lecture: “Character and Commitment in Contemporary America”

Régis Durand

Colloquium: “Donald Barthelme”

International Symposium: Innovation and Renovation in Western Culture

This conference brought together speakers in the areas of social theory, the humanities, feminist thought, and the arts.

Langdon Winner

Lecture: “Silk Purse or Sow’s Ear? Political Choices in Solar Energy”

Dore Ashton

Lecture: “On the Theme of the Artist & His Audience”
Panel: “Questions of Audience”
With Tom Ewens, Luis Eades, Derek Guthrie, Ruth Deyoung Kohler, Gerald Nordland

Steven Marcus

Lecture: “Literature and the City”

Conference: Architecture and the Public Realm: Who Cares?

This conference addressed the questions: Who cares about what happens to Milwaukee’s lakefront? Who cares about politics, art, and architecture? Who cares about new concepts for public spaces?

Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff

Lecture: “Strategies of Modern Theater: Shakespeare and Brecht”

Rosmarie Waldrop

Lecture: “Translation: The Joy of the Demiurge”

William Washabaugh

Lecture: “Flat Action”

Herbert Blau

Informal Talk on Ritual and Performance Conference

Edgar Morin

Lunch and Seminar with French Philosopher

Harry Rand

Lecture: “Gorky in Context”

Valie Export

Slide Presentation and Lecture on Her Performance Work

Paul Bové

Seminar

Sydney Lévy

Seminar

Jane Gallop

Seminar

Margaret Atherton

Lecture: “Work of One’s Own: Justifying Sexual Equality in the Working World”

James and Margot Schevill

Lecture: “Playwriting & Performance: The Crisis in New Theatre”

Stephen Heath

Seminar

Conference: German Avant-Garde Film: The Seventies

with Eric Rentschler, Miriam Hansen, Marc Silberman, Helke Sander, Judith Mayne, Kaja Silverman, Ruby Rich, Janet Bergstrom, Thomas Elsaesser, Timothy Corrigan, Roswitha Mueller, Bertrand Augst, Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein, Ulrike Ottinger, Helke Sander

Ralph Cohen

Seminar

Al Young

Writer-in-Residence Lecture

Richard Ohmann

Lecture: “On the Establishment of the Literary Canon”

Jean-Francis Lyotard

Seminar: “Towards a Philosophy of Phrases: Signs of History”

Grace Paley

Reading: “Arrested at Pentagon”

Edward W. Said

Seminar: “On Politics and Literary Criticism”

Julia Kristeva

Seminar: “On the Discourse of Love and Metaphor”

Fernando Arrabal

Screening of Arrabal’s film Viva la Muerte
Lecture: “El Nuevo Nuevo Teatro”

Jochen Schulte-Sasse

Seminar: “Theory of Modernism vs. Theory of the Avant-garde”

Bernice Neugarten

Lecture: “The Aging Society: Social Policy Implications”

Robert Stam

Lecture: “On Brazilian Cinema”

Jane Bowers,

Seminar: “A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Women Musicians”

Ben Siegel

Lecture: “The American Writer in the University: Muse vs. Lectern”

Richard Wollheim

Lecture: “On Living the Life of a Person”

Teresa de Lauretis

Seminar: “Women and Theory”

Diana Hume George

Seminar: “Feminism and Psychoanalysis”

Conference: Aging and the Imagination: Perspectives from Literature and Psychology

with James Hillman, Herbert Blau, Leslie Fiedler, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, John P. Muller, Martin Berezin, Robert Boyers, David L. Gutmann, Geoffrey Hartman, Norman N. Holland, Diana Hume George, Mark Krupnick, Mary Lydon, Murray M. Schwartz, and Kathleen Woodward

Tania Modleski

Seminar: “Women and Film Melodrama”

Klaus Theweleit

Lecture: “History and Experience”

Mary Russo

Seminar: “Feminism and Ideology”

Jack Zipes

Lecture: “The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood: Versions of the Tale in Sociocultural Context”

Jörn Rüsen

Lecture: “Types of Historical Narration: Problems of Historiography”

Amy Clampitt

Reading and Open Discussion

John Brenkman

Seminar: “On Aesthetics and Mass Culture”

William Dickey

Reading and Open Discussion

Jean Baudrillard

Lecture: “On the Masses and the Mass Media” (in French)

Anthony Wilden

Seminar: “The Body as the Discourse of the Other”

Gerald Graff

Lecture: “Ideology and Literary Criticism”

Daniel Charles

Lecture: “Music and Postmodernity”

Gertrud Koch

Lecture: “Ex-Changing the Gaze: Female Spectatorship”

Robert Stone

Reading and Open Discussion

Jean Franco

Seminar: “Popular and Mass Culture: The Metropolis and Latin America”
Lecture: “Contemporary Latin American Fiction: A Feminist Reading”

Forum: The Fate of Pleasure

with Kathleen Woodward, Leo Bersani, Christopher Butler, Jane Gallop, Ihab Hassan, Richard Poirier, Murray Schwartz, Cynthia Chase, Mary Lydon, Evan Watkins, Matei Calinescu, Gerhard Hoffmann, and Tania Modleski

Jan Kott

Lecture: “Marlow’s Dr. Faustus; or, the Transgression”

Herbert Blau

Lecture: “The American Dream in American Gothic: The Plays of Sam Shepard and Adrienne Kennedy”

Bernard Gendron

Lecture: “Deciphering the Rock N’ Roll Record: Sex and Race in ‘Whole Lotta Shakin'”

Richard Schechner

Lecture: “On Richard III: Configurations and Disfigurations”

Ben Siegel

Lecture: “Creative Writing in the Classroom: Teachers and Practitioners”

Eric Bentley

Lecture: “The Idea of Avantgarde, 19th and 20th Centuries”

Rodolfo Cortina

Lecture: “Latin American Folklore and Mass Culture”

Robert Corrigan

Lecture: “The Search for New Endings”

Marc Chenetier

Colloquium: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Contemporary American Fiction: A View from Abroad”

Conference: On Lacan: A One-day Conference Devoted to the work of French Thinker Jacques Lacan

with Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Stuart Schneiderman, Jane Gallop, Carolyn Asp, John Muller, and Kathleen Woodward

International Conference: Mass Culture

The Center for 20th Century Studies’ annual spring conference, organized by Kathleen Woodward and coordinated by Carol Tennessen.

Jack Zipes

Lecture: “Fairy Tales in the Age of Commodified Fantasticism”

Josef Škvorecký

Lecture: “Czech Film Today and in the Past” and Screening: Wind in Pocket

Armin Geraths

Lecture: “History and Historical Criticism in Tom Stoppard’s ‘Comedy of Ideas’ Travesties”

Andrej Zdravic

Screening: ANASTOMOSIS

Günter H. Lenz

Lecture: “Tradition, Discontinuity and Counter-Discourse: American Radical Cultural Criticism Since the 1960s”

W.J.T. Mitchell

Lecture: “Marx and Modern Iconoclasm”

Martin Schwab

Lecture: “How to Make Things Talk: A Semiotic Perspective on Use and Exchange Value in Marx’s Capital”

Arthur Danto

Lecture: “The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art”

Gabriele Schwab

Lecture: “History and Intertextuality in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow“

Ihab Hassan

Lecture: “Making Sense: The Crisis of Meaning in Postmodern Discourse”

Mary Poovey

Seminar: “Scenes of an Indelicate Character: Medical Representation of Victorian Women”

Frank Lentricchia

Colloquium: “On the Critic and Social Change”

Writers-in-Residence Program: Writers of the Third Coast: Reading and Discussing Their Craft

Ted Kooser, Eve Shelnutt, Robert Watt

Conference: After Positivism: Objectivity in the Natural & Social Sciences

This conference was devoted to recent work in the philosophy of science at the Center for 20th Century Studies.
Organized by John Koethe

John Naughton

Lecture: “The Writing of Paintings: Contemporary French Poet Yves Bonnefoy on the Visual Arts”

James A. Boon

Lecture: “Coping Across Cultures: A Critique”

Sidney Morgenbesser

Lecture: “Ideology & the Novel: Some Preliminary Distinctions”

Donna T. Haraway

Lecture: “The Politics of Being Female: Women’s Place is in the Jungle”

Alice Jardine

Research Seminar: “In the Name of the Modern: Feminist Questions d’Après Gynesis”
Open Discussion

Rolando Hinojosa

Open Discussion

Ben Brewster

Lecture: “Deep Staging in Early Cinema”

Martin Jay

Seminar: “Modernism, Postmodernism and the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought”
Open Discussion

Mícheál Ó Siadhail

Reading

T.J. Clark

Seminar: “Myth and Modernism”
Open Discussion

C. K. Williams and John Koethe

Poetry Reading

Kenneth Frampton

Seminar and Open Discussion

Gabriele Schwab

Informal Seminar: “The Insistence of the Subject in Postmodernism”

Mantei Calinescu

Lecture: “Modernism: The East European Connection”

Kristin Thompson

Seminar: “The Soviet Montage Film Movement of the 1920s in its Institutional Context”

Andreas Huyssen

Informal Seminar: “The Desire to Be Obsolete: Bloch, Ungleischzeitigkeit, and Postmodernism”

Ackbar Abbas

Lecture: “Between the Lines: Walter Benjamin’s Demon”

Cheryl Kader

Colloquium: “Modes of Address: ENTRE NOUS and DESERT HEARTS”

Judith Butler

Lecture: “Foucault and the Question of Sexual Difference”

Mary Catanazaro

Colloquium: “Monologue, Fast Forward/Re-Wind and Da Capo: The Voice of Absent Love in Beckett’s Couples”

John Frow

Lecture: “Accounting for Tastes: Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Culture”

Klaus Poenicke

Lecture: “Body, Violence, Text: The Hazards of an Ecological Hermeneutic”

Cynthia Wong

Colloquium: “On the False Track in Robbe-Grillet’s In the Labyrinth”

Ned Lukacher

Lecture: “The Role of Mood in Heidegger and in Contemporary Critical Thought”

Albrecht Wellmer

Lecture: “Language and Intersubjectivity”

Ashraf Jamal

Colloquium: “The Interval Between Stops: A Discourse on Travel”

Kathleen Woodward

Lecture: “The Look and the Gaze: Narcissism, Aggression, and Aging”

Jaye Berman

Colloquium: “Parody as Cultural Criticism in the Postmodern American Novel”

Susan Stewart

Lecture: “The Senses and the Abstract”

Vincent Descombes

Lecture: “Remarks on the Novel as a Modern Genre”

Open Discussion: “Objects of All Sorts: A Philosophical Grammar”

Christopher Butler

Lecture: “Interpretation, Deconstruction, and Ideology”

A. K. Ramanujan

Lecture: “Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?”

Thomas McCarthy

Lecture: “Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge: On the Question of Relavitism”
Open Discussion

Marcus Bullock

Research Seminar: “The Hanging Gardens of Babylon”

Nancy Fraser

Lecture: “Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism”

Giovanna Borradori

Lecture: “Beating the System: Habermas, Lyotard, and Systems Theory”

Fabrizio Mondadori

Research Seminar: “Leibniz in Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations”

Kaiser Haq

Research Seminar: “Introducing Frederic Manning (1882-1935)”

Anthony Giddens

Lecture: “Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and the Production of Culture”

Malashri Lal

Lecture: “The Sociology of Feminism: The Contemporary Indian-English Novel”

Robert McPhee

Research Seminar: “Critical Theory and Organizational Structure”

Jean-Luc Nancy

Lecture: “Shattered Love: Thinking of Love Today”
Open Discussion

Margaret Duncan

Research Seminar: “The Problem of Play”

Tom Moylan

Research Seminar: “Mission Impossible: Liberation Theology and Utopian Praxis”

Dominick Lacapra

Lecture: “Intellectual History and Critical Theory”

Robert Lauer

Research Seminar: “Hegel’s and Schopenhauer’s Reflections on the Tragic in Calderón”

Lectures on Television and Vietnam

John Carlos Rowe: “‘Bring It All Back Home’: American Recyclings of the Vietnam War”

Andrew Martin: “Receptions of War”

Susan Jeffords: “The Remasculinization of American Television: A Case Study of the Vietnam Veteran”

Lectures on Television and Genre

David Marc: “The Weekly TV Series: Specifying a Text”

Mimi White: “A Traffic in Souls: CBN, Confession, and Consumer Culture”

Robert Thompson: “Selling Television”

Lectures on Television Time/Television Space

Lynn Spigel: “Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948-1955”

Pamela Falkenberg: “Watching TV: Channeled Time/Fantasy Space”

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis: “Fascination in Fragments: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Television”

Meaghan Morris

Lecture: “Banality in Cultural Studies”

Lectures on the Television Audience

Robert C. Allen: “The Viewer Before the Set: Rediscovering/Reconceptualizing the Television Audience”

Eileen Meehan: “The Commodity Audience: Why You Don’t Count”

Robert Deming: “Pleasure, Fantasy, Melodrama, Dynasty“

Lectures on Television and the Law

Patrice Petro: “Criminality or Hysteria? Television and the Law”

Julie D’Acci: “‘Woman’ and the Law: Gender, Genre, and the Case of Cagney and Lacey“

Dwight Teeter and Don Le Duc: Debate: “Should American Broadcasting Be Accorded All the 1st Amendment Rights Traditionally Granted the Press?”

John Caughie and Roswitha Mueller

Lectures on International Television

Herbert Blau

Lecture: “On Brecht: The Thin, Thin Crust and Colophon of Doubt”

Lectures on Television and Postmodernism

James Collins: “Post-Modernism and Television Theory: Changing Channels”

Maureen Turim: “The Cultural Logic of Video”

Chris Straayer: “Post-Modern or Pre-Menstrual: Video Activity and the Eleventh Hour”

Conference: Representations of Otherness: Cultural Hermeneutics, East and West

with Kathleen Woodward, William Halloran, Ihab Hassan, George Marcus, Masao Miyoshi, Wlad Godzich, R. Radhakrishnan, Malashri Lal, Han-liang Chang, Anthony Yu, Iwao Iwamoto, Norma Field, A. N. Kaul, Gabriele Schwab

Lectures on Television and Media Criticism

Barry Brummett: “Media Determinism and the Look of Public Discourse in the Age of Television”

Peter Madsen: “The Frame of the Game”

Arthur Seeger: “‘Enlightening the Jerks’: Magazine Portrayal of the Television Audience, 1929-1958”

Conference: Television: Representation/Audience/Industry

This conference explored the complex function of television as it has developed and transformed modes of watching and listening.

Work-in-Progress by UW System Fellows

Daniel Perkins: “Decoding the Encoding of Local Television News”

Joseph Milicia: “There is Nothing Wrong With Your Television Set: The Persistence of Science Fiction Television”

Lectures on Television and Talk

Rick Altman: “Video/Audio”

Andrew Tolson: “American Television and a Public Discourse for Telecommunications: The Promise of Technological Utopianism?”

James Schwoch: “Speech Genres in Broadcast Talk: The TV News Interview”

Symposium: “Re-reading Cultural Criticism in America”

Gregory Jay, Paul Bové, and Vincent Leitch

Nancy Armstrong

Lecture: “On the Origins of Personal Life”

Ian Hacking

Lecture: “Disunity of Science”

Herbert Grabes

Lecture: “Writing Literary History”

Page duBois

Lecture: “Philosophic Apathy”

Sandra Bartky

Presentation: “Shame and Gender: Contribution to a Phenomenology of Oppression”

Ronald de Sousa

Presentation: “Learning Emotions”

Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker

Lecture: “The Male Hysteric”

Renato Rosaldo

Lecture: “Public Feeling, Public Conflicts: A Politics of Difference and Belonging”

Seminar: Theatricalizing Emotions

with Joseph Roach, Elin Diamond, Anthony Kubiak
Roundtable Discussion with Gunther Klotz and Phillip Zarrilli

Janis Jenkins

Lecture: “‘My Nerves are Broken’: The State Construction of Emotion Among Salvadoran Women Refugees”

Nancy Fraser

Lecture: “The Concept of the Public Sphere: Toward a Socialist Feminist Reconstruction”

Research Seminar on Discourses of the Emotions

Allan Sekula: “Grief and the Geography of Post-Fordism”

Leslie Bellavance: “Touching and Being Touched”

Respondents: Cindy Crigler, Leslie Fedorchuk, and Steven Foster

Conference: Discourses of the Emotions

with special guests Susan Bernstein, Sidney Bremer, Teresa Brown, Betsy Draine, and Judith Kegan Gardiner
Organized by Carol Tennessen