sep
19
Stanley Hauerwas
Lecture: “Communities of Character: Human Nature as History”
sep
22–23
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”
sep
24
Marvin Bell
Seminar: “Poetry & Character”
09–10
29–09
Jacques Schott
Lectures and Seminars: Character and the Madness of Man: A Path-Analysis of the Human Condition
oct
15, 22
Richard Palmer
Lecture: “Heidegger and the Redefinition of Interpretation”
Lecture: “Heidegger and the Redefinition of Language”
oct
17
Gary Snyder
Talk & Poetry Reading
oct
27
Susan Miller
Lecture: “Rhetorical Ethos: Language & Morality”
nov
05
Roland Stromberg
Lecture: “When Human Character Changed: The 1910 Revolution in Consciousness”
dec
10
Stephen Watson
Lecture: “Reason and Interpretation: On the Deconstruction of Hermenuetic Strategies”
dec
12
Anson Rabinbach
Lecture: “The Age of Exhaustion: Energy and Fatigue at the End of the 19th Century”
feb
19
Michael Kraft
Lecture: “Hannah Arendt’s Thinking”
feb
23–25
Robert Plant Armstrong
Lecture: “The Temporal Dimension”
Lecture: “The Spatial Dimension”
Lecture: “The Cultural Dimension”
feb
25
Ernie DeMaio
Lecture: “Robots – Gravediggers of Capitalism”
mar
02
Yehuda Yannay
Lecture: “Contemporary Music and Ideas: The Composer’s Milieu”
mar
09–12
Jerre Mangione
Lecture: “The Fate of the Urban Ethnic”
Lecture: “The Writer’s Project: A Portrait of America”
Seminar: “Italians in America 1880-1980: Research in Progress”
Lecture: “Process of Creativity”
mar
13
Iring Fetscher
Lecture: “Socialism and Ecology”
mar
16
Mark Poster
Lecture: “Foucault, Marx, History”
mar
16
Jane Hood
Lecture: “My Uncle EAP: Industrial Social Welfare Programs and the Family”
mar
17
Rene Bravmann
Lecture: “Syncretism in Black Art and Thought”
mar
18
Robert Bellah
Lecture: “Character and Commitment in Contemporary America”
mar
19
Judith Bettelheim
Lecture: “Caribbean Masquerades”
mar
26
Annette Macdonald
Lecture: “Haitian Dance”
mar
31
William W. Cook
Lecture: “Haitian Literature and Voodoo”
apr
02/p>
Pierre Monosiet
Lecture: “Beginnings of a ‘New Art’ in Haiti”
apr
10
Robert Faris Thompson
Lecture: “Vodun! The Blending of Africa and France in the Making of Hatian Art and Thought”
sep
18
Régis Durand
Colloquium: “Donald Barthelme”
sep
22–25
International Symposium: Innovation and Renovation in Western Culture
with Thomas Bontly, Walter Abish, Malcolm Bradbury, Michael DeGuy, Samuel Delany, Raymond Federman, Didier Coste, Ann Douglas, Berndt Ostendorf, Helen Fehervary, Kathleen Woodward, Rachel Skalitzky, Betsy Draine, Rüdiger Kunow, Paul Levine, Malcolm Bradbury, Richard Martin, Klaus Poenicke, Campbell Tatham, Heide Ziegler, Gerhard Hoffman, Bernard Bergonzi, Iwao Iwamato, Jerome Klinkowitz, Marie-Rose Logan, Manfred Pütz, Wayne Booth, Ihab Hassan, and Christopher Butler
sep
28
Langdon Winner
Lecture: “Silk Purse or Sow’s Ear? Political Choices in Solar Energy”
oct
14
Hazel Henderson
Lecture: “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Awakening from the Technological Trance”
oct
16
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
nov
04
Steven Marcus
Lecture: “Literature and the City”
nov
19
Conference: Architecture and the Public Realm: Who Cares?
with Kenneth Frampton, Robert Beckley, Wojciech Lesnikowski, Barton Myers, James Wines, Thomas Ewens, Anthony Catanese, Norman Gill, David Kahler, and Kevin O’Conner
nov
23
Gerda Lerner
Lecture: “Women’s History: Woman’s Right: Implications for Public Policy”
dec
01
Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff
Lecture: “Strategies of Modern Theater: Shakespeare and Brecht”
dec
03
Rosmarie Waldrop
Lecture: “Translation: The Joy of the Demiurge”
dec
08
William Washabaugh
Lecture: “Flat Action”
dec
11
Herbert Blau
Informal Talk
jan
25
Harry Rand
Lecture: “Gorky in Context”
feb
25
Paul Bové
Seminar
mar
01
Frederick Turner
Colloquium on the Literary Quarterly
mar
04
Sydney Lévy
Seminar
mar
19
Jane Gallop
Seminar
mar
26
Stephen Heath
Seminar
apr
01–02
Conference: Sexuality and the Public Realm
with Herbert Blau, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Stephen Heath, Dick Hebdige, Mary Lydon. Discussants Jane Gallop, BIddy Martin, Eleanor Skoller, Elizabeth Spelman
apr
21–22
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
apr
29
Ralph Cohen
Seminar
sep
14
Richard Ohmann
Lecture: “On the Establishment of the Literary Canon”
sep
17
Jean-Francis Lyotard
Seminar: “Towards a Philosophy of Phrases: Signs of History”
oct
05
Grace Paley
Reading: Arrested at Pentagon
oct
08
Edward W. Said
Seminar: “On Politics and Literary Criticism”
nov
02
Julia Kristeva
Seminar: “On the Discourse of Love and Metaphor”
nov
09–12
Conference: Cinema Histories, Cinema Practices II
with Diana Barrie, Manuel de Landa, Joanna Kiernan, Robert Nelson, Yvonne Rainer, Jackie Raynal, Michael Snow, Peter Wollen, Teresa de Lauretis, Mary Ann Doane, Stephen Heath, J. Hoberman, Peter Lehman, Scott MacDonald, Patricia Mellencamp, Christian Metz, Annette Michelson, David Rodowick, Phil Rosen, Kaja Silverman, and Michael Silverman
nov
21–22
Fernando Arrabal
Screening: “Viva la Muerte”
Lecture: “El Nuevo Nuevo Teatro”
dec
02
Jochen Schulte-Sasse
Seminar: “Theory of Modernism versus Theory of the Avant-garde”
feb
01
Bernice Neugarten
Lecture: “The Aging Society: Social Policy Implications”
feb
23
Maria Angélica Lopes Dean
Lecture: “Cutting the Patriarchal Knot”
feb
24
Robert Stam
Lecture: “On Brazilian Cinema”
mar
11
Jane Bowers,
Seminar: “A Cross-cultural Perspective on Women Musicians”
mar
14
Paul Berliner
Lecture/Performance: “Fusion of African & American Music”
mar
15
Perkins Foss
Lecture: “Afro-American Performance Art”
mar
17
Lavinia Williams
Illustrated Talk: “Caribbean Dance”
mar
18
William W. Cook
Lecture: “Traditions of Afro-American Satire”
mar
20
Robert Farris Thompson
Illustrated Talk: “Black Folk as Performance”
mar
25
Ben Siegel
Lecture: “The American Writer in the University: Muse versus Lectern”
mar
25
Richard Wollheim
Lecture: “On Living the Life of a Person”
mar
28
Teresa de Lauretis
Seminar: “Women and Theory”
apr
13
Patrick McNaughton
Lecture: “Growing Old is Growing Ripe: Aging in Traditional African Society”
apr
20
Diana Hume George
Seminar: “Feminism and Psychoanalysis”
apr
20–22
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
apr
29
Tania Modleski
Seminar: “Women and Film Melodrama”
may
03
Klaus Theweleit
Lecture: “History and Experience”
may
06
Mary Russo
Seminar: “Feminism and Ideology”
sep
21
Jack Zipes
Lecture: “The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood: Versions of the Tale in Sociocultural Context”
sep
29
Lutz Röhrich
Lecture: “fairy tales & mass culture”
Oct
03
Jörn Rüsen
Lecture: “Types of Historical Narration: Problems of Historiography”
oct
04
Amy Clampitt
Reading and Open Discussion
oct
12
John Brenkman
Seminar: “On Aesthetics and Mass Culture”
oct
18
William Dickey
Reading and Open Discussion
oct
25
Lucette Finas
Seminar: “Les Choses Vues de Victor Hugo” (in French)
oct
29
Jean Baudrillard
Lecture: “On the Masses and the Mass Media” (in French)
nov
02
Anthony Wilden and Rhonda Hammer
Selective Video History: “The Chorus Line”
nov
03
Anthony Wilden
Seminar: “The Body as the Discourse of the Other”
nov
17
Gerald Graff
Lecture: “Ideology and Literary Criticism”
nov
29
Daniel Charles
Lecture: “Music and Postmodernity”
dec
02
Gertrud Koch
Lecture: “ex-Changing the gaze: female spectatorship”
dec
06
Robert Stone
Reading and Open Discussion
dec
07–08
Jean Franco
Seminar: “Popular and Mass Culture: The Metropolis and Latin America”
Lecture: “Contemporary Latin American Fiction: A Feminist Reading”
dec
29
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
26
Jan Kott
Lecture: “Marlow’s Dr. Faustus; or, the Transgression”
feb
13
David Thorburn
Lecture: “The Network Era: The Historical Development of Commercial Television”
feb
23
Herbert Blau
Lecture: “The American Dream in American Gothic: The Plays of Sam Shepard and Adrienne Kennedy”
feb
24
Bernard Gendron
Lecture: “Deciphering the Rock N’ Roll Record: Sex and Race in ‘Whole Lotta Shakin'”
mar
02
Richard Schechner
Lecture: “On Richard III: Configurations and Disfigurations”
mar
23
Ben Siegel
Lecture: “Creative Writing in the Classroom: Teachers and Practitioners”
mar
29
Eric Bentley
Lecture: “The Idea of Avantgarde, 19th and 20th Centuries”
apr
02
Rodolfo Cortina
Lecture: “Latin American Folklore and Mass Culture”
apr
05
Robert Corrigan
Lecture: “The Search for New Endings”
apr
06
Marc Chenetier
Colloquium: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Contemporary American Fiction: A View from Abroad”
apr
13
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
apr
18
Russell Merritt
Lecture: “Rock ‘n Roll at the Movies”
apr
25–27
International Conference: Mass Culture
with James Cronin, Lynn Mally, Stuart Hall, Frederick Wiseman, David Kunzle, Andreas Huyssen, Tania Modleski, Judith Williamson, Jane Feuer, Patricia Mellencamp, Margaret Morse, John Pauly, Bernard Gendron, Larry Grossberg, Stephen Heath, Rodolfo Cortina, Judith Mayne, and Jack Stipes
apr
25
Frederick Wiseman
Screening and Discussion: “Model”
may
02
Jack Zipes
Lecture: “Fairy Tales in the Age of Commodified Fantasticism”
may
19
Josef Škvorecký
Lecture: “Czech Film Today and in the Past” and Screening: Wind in Pocket
sep
09
Murray Krieger
Lecture: “Literary Invention and the Impulse to Theoretical Change”
sep
27
Andrej Zdravic
Screening: ANASTOMOSIS
oct
08
Günter H. Lenz
Lecture: “Tradition, Discontinuity and Counter-Discourse: American Radical Cultural Criticism Since the 1960s”
oct
12
jacques aumont
Lecture: “VISUALIZATIONS: Film and the Image of the City”
oct
24
W.J.T. Mitchell
Lecture: “Marx and Modern Iconoclasm”
oct
31
Martin Schwab
Lecture: “How to Make Things Talk: A Semiotic Perspective on Use and Exchange Value in Marx’s Capital”
nov
13
Peter Sloterdijk
Lecture: “Critique of Cynical Reason: A Philosophical Diagnosis of the Times”
nov
15
Arthur Danto
Lecture: “The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art”
feb
05
Gabriele Schwab
Lecture: “History and Intertextuality in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow”
feb
13
Ihab Hassan
Lecture: “Making Sense: The Crisis of Meaning in Postmodern Discourse”
feb
26
Mary Poovey
Seminar: Scenes of an Indelicate Character: Medical Representation of Victorian Women”
mar
21
Frank Lentricchia
Colloquium: “On the Critic and Social Change”
mar
26–27
Writers-in-Residence Program: Writers of the Third Coast: Reading and Discussing Their Craft
Ted Kooser, Eve Shelnutt, Robert Watt
apr
02
Conference: After Positivism: Objectivity in the Natural & Social Sciences
with Michael Friedman, Geoffrey Joseph, Daniel Hausman, and Robert Scwartz
Organized by John Koethe
apr
08
John Naughton
Lecture: “The Writing of Paintings: Contemporary French Poet Yves Bonnefoy on the Visual Arts”
apr
11
James A. Boon
Lecture: “Coping Across Cultures: A Critique”
apr
15
Sidney Morgenbesser
Lecture: “Ideology & the Novel: Some Preliminary Distinctions”
apr
16
Donna T. Haraway
Lecture: “The Politics of Being Female: Women’s Place is in the Jungle”
apr
24–26
Conference: Feminist Studies: Reconstituting Knowledge
with Teresa de Lauretis, Elaine Marks, Kathleen Woodward, Evelyn T. Beck, Jessica Benjamin, Ruth Bleier, Linda Gordon, Andreas Huyssen, Evelyn Fox Keller, Biddy Martin, Sheila Radford-Hill, Cecilia Ridgeway, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Gayatri Spivak, Angelika Bammer, Herbert Blau, John Brenkman, Suzanne Clark, Patricia Mellencamp, Nancy K. Miller, Tania Modleski, Sondra O’Neale, Mary Russo, Barbara Smith, Kathleen Hulley, Judith Mayne, and Jane Gallop
sep
10–11
Alice Jardine
Research Seminar: “in the name of the modern: feminist questions d’après gynesis”
Open Discussion
sep
13
Rolando Hinojosa
Open Discussion
sep
20
Ben Brewster
Lecture: “Deep Staging in Early Cinema”
oct
01–02
Martin Jay
Seminar: “Modernism, Post-modernism and the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-century French Thought”
Open Discussion
oct
30
Norman Holland
Lecture: “I-ing Critics”
nov
07
Mícheál Ó Siadhail
Reading
nov
12–13
Rosalind Krauss
Seminar: “Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, and the Model of Blindness”
Open Discussion
nov
19–20
T.J. Clark
Seminar: “Myth and Modernism”
Open Discussion
nov
22
C. K. Williams and John Koethe
Poetry Reading
dec
03–04
Kenneth Frampton
Seminar
Open Discussion
jan
23
Richard Selzer
Reading
Open Discussion
jan
31
Gabriele Schwab
Informal Seminar: “The Insistence of the Subject in Postmodernism”
feb
03
Mantei Calinescu
Lecture: “Modernism: The East European Connection”
feb
07
Neda Al-Hilali
Lecture: “Fiber/Art: Ancient or Avant-Garde?”
feb
11
Kristin Thompson
Seminar: “The Soviet Montage Film Movement of the 1920s in its Institutional Context”
feb
14
Andreas Huyssen
Informal Seminar: “The Desire to be Obsolete: Bloch, Ungleischzeitigkeit, and Postmodernism”
feb
17
Lisel Mueller
Reading
feb
18
Alfred Appel, Jr.
Lecture: “American Images of War: National Purpose and Open Expression”
feb
20
Lisel Mueller
Open Discussion
feb
24
Walter Benn Michaels
Lecture: “Against Theory 2: Speech Act Theory, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction”
feb
28
Jeffrey Hayes
Informal Seminar: “Rewriting Early Modernism in America: The Stephan Bourgeois Group”
mar
04
Fredric Jameson
Seminar: “The Modernity of Potemkin”
mar
04
Kelly Cherry
Reading
mar
05
Fredric Jameson
Open Discussion
mar
06
Hans Robert Jauss
Seminar: “The Ideal Dialogue”
mar
06
Nancy Holt
Lecture: “Art and the Public Sphere”
mar
18–19
Renate Lachmann
Seminar: “On Bakhtin”
Open Discussion
mar
21
Bernard Gendron
Informal Seminar: “Dada in the Jazz Age: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde”
mar
24
Ackbar Abbas
Lecture: “Collecting Texts: The Experience of Modernity”
mar
27
Blair Drawson
Lecture: “Passion and Paradox”
apr
11
Miriam Gusevich
Informal Seminar: “Purity and Transgression: Reflections on the Architectural Avant-Garde and the Problem of Kitsch”
apr
17
Ron Wallace
Reading
apr
18
Vicky Unruh
Informal Seminar: “Early Words/Early Worlds: Linguistic Primitivism in the Latin Ameican Avant-Gardes”
apr
23–25
International Conference: The Modern Text and the Experience of Modernity: Revisions of German and Austrian Modernism
with Kathleen Woodward, Andreas Huyssen, Mark Anderson, Herbert Blau, Russell A. Berman, Jack Zipes, Jochen Schulte-Sasse, Martin Schwab, David Bathrick, Henry Schmidt, Biddy Martin, Roswitha Mueller, James Steakley, Mark Krupnick, Klaus Berghahn, Miriam Gusevich, Klaus Scherpe, Peter U. Hohendahl, Ingo Seidler, Judith Ryan, Gabriele Schwab, Giovanna Borradori, Christopher Butler, and Anselm Haverkamp
may
02
Evelyn Zepp
Informal Seminar: “On Negativity”
may
08
Giovanna Borradori
Lecture: “‘WEAK THOUGHT’ and the AESTHETICS OF QUATATIONISM: on the Italian contemporary philosophical debate”
sep
11
Ackbar Abbas
Lecture: “Between the Lines: Walter Benjamin’s Demon”
sep
19
Conference: Interfaces of Culture: The West and Its Others
with Ihab Hassan, Ackbar Abbas, Kaiser M. H. Haq, Iwao Iwamoto, Sheila Roberts, Pramod Menon, Shelia Bastian, Ashraf Jamal, and Mary Layoun
sep
25
Cheryl Kader
Colloquium: “Modes of Address: ENTRE NOUS and DESERT HEARTS”
sep
30
Judith Butler
Lecture: “Foucault and the Question of Sexual Difference”
oct
03
Ulrike Ottinger
Film Screening: China, the Arts, and Everyday Life
oct
09
Mary Catanazaro
Colloquium: “Monologue, Fast Forward/Re-wind and da capo: The Voice of Absent Love in Beckett’s Couples”
oct
14
John Frow
Lecture: “Accounting for Tastes: Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Culture”
oct
20
Klaus Poenicke
Lecture: “Body, Violence, Text: The Hazards of an Ecological Hermeneutic”
oct
23
Cynthia Wong
Colloquium: “On the False Track in Robbe-Grillet’s In the Labyrinth”
oct
28
Ned Lukacher
Lecture: “The Role of Mood in Heidegger and in Contemporary Critical Thought”
nov
04
Albrecht Wellmer
Lecture: “Language and Intersubjectivity”
nov
06
Ashraf Jamal
Colloquium: “The Interval Between Stops: A Discourse on Travel”
nov
10
Ulrike Ottinger
Film Screening: The Image of Dorian Gray
nov
12
Kathleen Woodward
Lecture: “The Look and the Gaze: Narcissism, Aggression, and Aging”
nov
13
Jaye Berman
Colloquium: “Parody as Cultural Criticism in the Postmodern American Novel”
nov
18
Susan Stewart
Lecture: “The Senses and the Abstract”
dec
02–03
Vincent Descombes
Lecture: “Remarks on the Novel as a Modern Genre”
Open Discussion
jan
20
Christopher Butler
Lecture: “Interpretation, Deconstruction, and Ideology”
jan
28
A. K. Ramanujan
Lecture: “Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?”
feb
03–04
Thomas McCarthy
Lecture: “Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge: On the Question of Relavitism”
Open Discussion
feb
20
Marcus Bullock
Research Seminar: “The Hanging Gardens of Babylon”
feb
25
Nancy Fraser
Lecture: “Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism”
mar
02
Giovanna Borradori
Lecture: “Beating the System: Habermas, Lyotard, and Systems Theory”
mar
06
Fabrizio Mondadori
Research Seminar: “Leibniz in Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations”
mar
13
Kaiser Haq
Research Seminar: “Introducing Frederic Manning (1882-1935)
mar
17
Anthony Giddens
Lecture: “Structuralism, Post-structuralism, and the Production of Culture”
mar
25
Eva Meyer
Lecture: “Letters or the Autobiography of Writing”
mar
31
Malashri Lal
Lecture: “The Sociology of Feminism: The Contemporary Indian-English Novel”
apr
03
Robert McPhee
Research Seminar: “Critical Theory and Organizational Structure”
apr
07–08
Jean-Luc Nancy
Lecture: “Shattered Love: Thinking of Love Today”
Open Discussion
apr
10
Margaret Duncan
Research Seminar: “The Problem of Play”
apr
24
Tom Moylan
Research Seminar: “Mission Impossible: Liberation Theology and Utopian Praxis”
apr
28
Dominick Lacapra
Lecture: “Intellectual History and Critical Theory”
may
01
Robert Lauer
Research Seminar: “Hegel’s and Schopenhauer’s Reflections on the Tragic in Calderón”
sep
11
Seminar: Exaggerated Modern Life/TV–Japan
Organized by Great Lakes Film & Video
sep
18
John Carlos Rowe, Andrew Martin, and Susan Jeffords
Lectures on television and Vietnam
oct
09
Patricia Mellencamp, David Marc, and Mimi White
Lectures on television and genre
oct
30
Pamela Falkenberg, Lynn Spigel, and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Lectures on television time/television space
nov
13
Meaghan Morris
Lecture: “Banality in Cultural Studies”
nov
20
Robert C. Allen, Robert Deming, and Eileen Meehan
Lectures on the television audience
dec
04
Patrice Petro, Julie D’Acci, Don Le Duc, and Dwight Teeter
Lectures on television and the law
feb
05
John Caughie and Roswitha Mueller
Lectures on international television
mar
04
James Collins, Maureen Turim, and Chris Straayer
Lectures on television and postmodernism
mar
25
Barry Brummett, Arthur Seeger, and Peter Madsen
Lectures on television and media criticism
apr
01–02
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
apr
13–15
Conference: Television: Representation/Audience/Industry
with Michèle Mattelart, John Caughie, Patrice Petro, Margaret Morse, Stephen Heath, Lidia Curti, Mary Ann Doane, Patricia Mellencamp, Jane Feuer, John Hartley, James Collins, Lynn Spigel, Andrew Tolson, Andrew Ross, Mimi White, Pamela Falkenberg, James Schwoch, Simon Frith, William Boddy, Douglas Gomery, Judith Barry, Ondina Fachel Leal, Robert Deming, John Fiske, and H.U. Gumbrecht
apr
29
Rick Altman, Andrew Tolson, and James Schwoch
Lectures on television and talk
sep
11
Seminar: Exaggerated Modern Life/TV–Japan
Organized by Great Lakes Film & Video
sep
18
John Carlos Rowe, Andrew Martin, and Susan Jeffords
Lectures on television and Vietnam
oct
09
Patricia Mellencamp, David Marc, and Mimi White
Lectures on television and genre
oct
30
Pamela Falkenberg, Lynn Spigel, and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Lectures on television time/television space
nov
13
Meaghan Morris
Lecture: “Banality in Cultural Studies”
nov
20
Robert C. Allen, Robert Deming, and Eileen Meehan
Lectures on the television audience
dec
04
Patrice Petro, Julie D’Acci, Don Le Duc, and Dwight Teeter
Lectures on television and the law
feb
05
John Caughie and Roswitha Mueller
Lectures on international television
mar
04
James Collins, Maureen Turim, and Chris Straayer
Lectures on television and postmodernism
mar
25
Barry Brummett, Arthur Seeger, and Peter Madsen
Lectures on television and media criticism
apr
01–02
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
apr
13–15
Conference: Television: Representation/Audience/Industry
with Michèle Mattelart, John Caughie, Patrice Petro, Margaret Morse, Stephen Heath, Lidia Curti, Mary Ann Doane, Patricia Mellencamp, Jane Feuer, John Hartley, James Collins, Lynn Spigel, Andrew Tolson, Andrew Ross, Mimi White, Pamela Falkenberg, James Schwoch, Simon Frith, William Boddy, Douglas Gomery, Judith Barry, Ondina Fachel Leal, Robert Deming, John Fiske, and H.U. Gumbrecht
apr
29
Rick Altman, Andrew Tolson, and James Schwoch
Lectures on television and talk
sep
22
Nancy Armstrong
Lecture: “On the Origins of Personal Life”
oct
05
Ian Hacking
Lecture: “Disunity of Science”
nov
03
Page duBois
Lecture: “Philosophic Apathy”
nov
17
Sandra Bartky
Presentation: “Shame and Gender: Contribution to a Phenomenology of Oppression”
nov
17
Ronald de Sousa
Presentation: “Learning Emotions”
dec
01
Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker
Lecture: “The Male Hysteric”
dec
08
feb
02
Renato Rosaldo
Lecture: “Public Feeling, Public Conflicts: A Politics of Difference and Belonging”
feb
16
Seminar: Theatricalizing Emotions
with Joseph Roach , Elin Diamond, Anthony Kubiak
Roundtable Discussion with Gunther Klotz and Phillip Zarrilli
mar
02
Janis Jenkins
Lecture: “ ‘My Nerves are Broken’: The State Construction of Emotion Among Salvadoran Women Refugees”
mar
23
Nancy Fraser
Lecture: “The Concept of the Public Sphere: Toward a Socialist Feminist Reconstruction”
apr
06
Research Seminar
with Allan Sekula
Lecture: “Grief and the Geography of Post-Fordism”
apr
06
Leslie Bellavance
Lecture: “Touching and Being Touched”
with respondents: Cindy Crigler, Leslie Fedorchuk, and Steven Foster
apr
16
Steve Fagin
Film Screening and discussion: The Machine That Killed Bad People
apr
19–21
Conference: Discourses of the Emotions
with Herbert Blau, Mitchell Breitwieser, Marcus Bullock, Virginia Carmichael, Rey Chow, Ed Cohen, Valie Export, Jane Gallop, Marjorie Garber, Elizabeth Grosz, Gregory Jay, Lynne Joyrich, Gwynee Kennedy, Kathleen Kirby, Andrew Martin, Gloria Jean Masciarotte, Patricia Mellencamp, Michael Moon, Meaghan Morris, Patrice Petro, Robin Pickering-Iazzi, Thomas Piontek, Julia Schiesari, Gabriele Schwab, Murray Schwartz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Madelon Sprengnether, Susan Stewart, Carol Tennessen, Calvin Thomas, Kathleen Woodward, and Lynn Worsham
apr
24
Susan Sontag
Lecture: “AIDS and its Metaphors”
1970s: Film, Performance, Language, and Technology
1990s: Culture, Aesthetics, Aging, and Animals
2000s: War, Sovereignty, Gender, Space
2010s: The Digital, Nonhuman Turn, Anthropocene, Indigeneities