fall
’80
Jacques Schott
Lectures and Seminars: “Character and the Madness of Man: A Path-Analysis of the Human Condition”
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
Seminar: “Poetry & Character”
oct
15 & 22
Richard Palmer
Lectures: “Heidegger and the Redefinition of Interpretation” and “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”
nov
13-14
Conference: Hermeneutics and the Humanities
with Hubert Dreyfus, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Geoffrey Hartman, Patrick Heelan, David Hoy, Thomas McCarthy, Richard Rorty, and Gianni Vattimo
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
Lecture: “Hannah Arendt’s Thinking”
feb
23-25
Lectures: “The Temporal Dimension,” “The Spatial Dimension,” and “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
Lectures: “The Fate of the Urban Ethnic,” “The Writer’s Project: A Portrait of America,” and “Process of Creativity”
Seminar: “Italians in America 1880-1980: Research in Progress”
mar
13
Iring Fetscher
Lecture: “Socialism and Ecology”
mar
16
Mark Poster
Lecture: “Foucault, Marx, History”
mar
16
Lecture: “My Uncle EAP: Industrial Social Welfare Programs and the Family”
mar
18
Robert Bellah
Lecture: “Character and Commitment in Contemporary America”
mar-apr
African Roots of Haitian Art Series
Rene Bravmann: “Syncretism in Black Art and Thought”
Judith Bettelheim: “Caribbean Masquerades”
Annette Macdonald: “Haitian Dance”
William W. Cook: “Haitian Literature and Voodoo”
Pierre Monosiet: “Beginnings of a ‘New Art’ in Haiti”
Robert Faris Thompson: “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
This conference brought together speakers in the areas of social theory, the humanities, feminist thought, and the arts.
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
Lecture: “Literature and the City”
nov
19
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?
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
Lecture: “Flat Action”
dec
11
Informal Talk on Ritual and Performance Conference
jan
14
Edgar Morin
Lunch and Seminar with French Philosopher
jan
25
Harry Rand
Lecture: “Gorky in Context”
feb
09
Valie Export
Slide Presentation and Lecture on Her Performance Work
feb
25
Paul Bové
Seminar
mar
01
Frederick Turner
Colloquium on the Literary Quarterly
mar
04
Sydney Lévy
Seminar
mar
09
Daniel Charles and Noemi Perugia
Lecture: “The Voice in Contemporary Music”
mar
19
Jane Gallop
Seminar
mar
22
Margaret Atherton
Lecture: “Work of One’s Own: Justifying Sexual Equality in the Working World”
mar
24
James and Margot Schevill
Lecture: “Playwriting & Performance: The Crisis in New Theatre”
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
06
John Ashbery
Writer-in-Residence Reading and Seminar
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
oct
17
Writer-in-Residence Lecture
sep
14
Richard Ohmann
Lecture: “On the Establishment of the Literary Canon”
sep
17
Seminar: “Towards a Philosophy of Phrases: Signs of History”
oct
05
Grace Paley
Reading: “Arrested at Pentagon”
oct
08
Seminar: “On Politics and Literary Criticism”
nov
02
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 of Arrabal’s film Viva la Muerte
Lecture: “El Nuevo Nuevo Teatro”
dec
02
Jochen Schulte-Sasse
Seminar: “Theory of Modernism vs. 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
14-20
Black Performance in the New World
Lecture and Performance Series featuring Paul Berliner, Perkins Foss, Lavinia Williams, the Ko-Thi Dance Company, William W. Cook, Ishmael Reed, and Robert Farris Thompson
mar
25
Ben Siegel
Lecture: “The American Writer in the University: Muse vs. 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
28
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
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
18
Seminar” “The Open University”
apr
25–27
International Conference: Mass Culture
The Center for 20th Century Studies’ annual spring conference, organized by Kathleen Woodward and coordinated by Carol Tennessen.
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
jun
19
Armin Geraths
Lecture: “History and Historical Criticism in Tom Stoppard’s ‘Comedy of Ideas’ Travesties”
sep
20
Murray Krieger
Lecture: “Literary Invention and the Impulse to Theoretical Change”
sep
27
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”
nov
27
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Reading and Open Discussion
feb
05
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
19–21
Reading, Screening of Heartland, and Open Discussion
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
This conference was devoted to recent work in the philosophy of science at the Center for 20th Century Studies.
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
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
Open Discussion
sep
20
Ben Brewster
Lecture: “Deep Staging in Early Cinema”
oct
01–02
Martin Jay
Seminar: “Modernism, Postmodernism and the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought”
Open Discussion
oct
30
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 and Open Discussion
jan
23
Reading and 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-mar
Layton Lecture Series on the Visual Arts
Neda Al-Hilali (Feb 7) | Lecture: “Fiber/Art: Ancient or Avant-Garde?”
Nancy Holt (Mar 6) | Lecture: “Art and the Public Sphere”
Blair Drawson (Mar 27) | Lecture: “Passion and Paradox”
feb
11
Kristin Thompson
Seminar: “The Soviet Montage Film Movement of the 1920s in its Institutional Context”
feb
14
Informal Seminar: “The Desire to Be Obsolete: Bloch, Ungleischzeitigkeit, and Postmodernism”
feb
17 & 20
Lisel Mueller
Writer-in-Residence Reading & Open Discussion
feb
18
Alfred Appel, Jr.
Lecture: “American Images of War: National Purpose and Open Expression”
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
03-05
Fredric Jameson
Screening: Potemkin
Seminar: “The Modernity of Potemkin”
Open Discussion
mar
04
Kelly Cherry
Reading
mar
06
Hans Robert Jauss
Seminar: “The Ideal Dialogue”
mar
18–19
Renate Lachmann
Seminar: “On Bakhtin”
Open Discussion
mar-apr
March 19: Alsino and the Condor
March 26: Dios los Cria
April 02: House for Swap
April 09: Las Madres
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”
apr
04
Popular Music, Mass Media, and Culture
in connection with the symposium on Music and Society: The Shaping of Contemporary Musical Taste, organized by the School of Fine Arts
apr
11
Miriam Gusevich
Informal Seminar: “Purity and Transgression: Reflections on the Architectural Avant-Garde and the Problem of Kitsch”
apr
14 & 16
Robert Lauer and Maria Peterson
Screening of The Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939
apr
15–16
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Seminar: “Rewriting Modernism”
Open Discussion
apr
17
Ron Wallace
Reading from Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks
apr
18
Vicky Unruh
Informal Seminar: “Early Words/Early Worlds: Linguistic Primitivism in the Latin Ameican Avant-Gardes”
apr
23-25
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: “‘Modern’ Texts and the Theory of Julia Kristeva: On Negativity”
may
08
Giovanna Borradori
Lecture: “‘Weak Thought’ and the Aesthetics of Quotationism: 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
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
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: “Objects of All Sorts: A Philosophical Grammar”
jan
20
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
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
13
Tom Moylan
Book Signing and Reception: Demand the Impossible
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
10-12
Japanese Culture Through Cinema
Organized by Great Lakes Film & Video
sep
18
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”
oct
09
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”
oct
30
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”
nov
06
Women and Aging
Kathleen Woodward: “In the Name of the Mother: Eva Figes’ Waking and the Aging Daughter”
Patricia Mellencamp: “‘When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time’: Growing Old Fashionably on TV”
Cecelia Condit: Screening and Discussion of Not a Jealous Bone
nov
13
Meaghan Morris
Lecture: “Banality in Cultural Studies”
nov
20
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“
dec
04
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?”
jan
27
Soviet Women in Film
Screenings of Interviews on Personal Matters and Turnover (dir. Lana Gogoberidze) and The Glass Eye (dir. Lili Brik)
Discussion with Lana Gogoberidze and Maya Turovskaja
feb
05
John Caughie and Roswitha Mueller
Lectures on International Television
mar
02 & 09
Herbert Blau
Lecture: “On Brecht: The Thin, Thin Crust and Colophon of Doubt”
mar
04
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”
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
08
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”
apr
13–15
Conference: Television: Representation/Audience/Industry
This conference explored the complex function of television as it has developed and transformed modes of watching and listening.
apr
22
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”
apr
29
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”
sep
16
Symposium: “Re-reading Cultural Criticism in America”
Gregory Jay, Paul Bové, and Vincent Leitch
sep
23
Regis Durand
Seminar: “On Photography: Le Regard Pensif”
oct
12
Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Lecture: “Conjure and the Space of Black Women’s Writing: Zora Neale Hurston’s Mule and Men”
nov
11
John Brenkman, Lynn Worsham, Paul Jay, Herbert Blau, and Barry Brummett
Seminar: “A Seminar on Kenneth Burke”
oct
17
Sohnya Sayres and Gregory S. Jay
Seminar: “Re-Reading the New York Intellectuals: Sontag and Trilling”
feb
03
Lecture: “American Feminist Literary Criticism: 1972”
feb
28
Lecture: “Contemporary Theater in the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany”
mar
03
David Noble, Reginald Horsman, and Russell Reising
Seminar: “History Writing as Cultural Criticism”
mar
31
Michael Denning: “The End of Mass Culture”
Andrew Martin: “American Studies/Cultural Studies: Towards a New Critical Paradigm”
apr
07
Lecture: “American Cosmopolitanism, 1870-1914”
apr
19–21
Conference: Reconstructing Cultural Criticism in America: Intellectuals/Discourses/Institutions
with Sandra Adell, Michael Awkward, Anne Balsamo, Lois W. Banner, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Ellen E. Berry, Hans Bertens, Juan Bruce-Novoa, Marcus Bullock, Joan Burbick, Peter Carafiol, James Clifford, Maurice Couturier, Santiago Daydi-Tolson, Winfried Fluck, Barbara Foley, Karl Gartung, Gerhard Hoffmann, Alfred Hornung, Gordon N. Hunter, Gregory Jay, Paul Jay, Cheryl Johnson, Lemuel A. Johnson, Lynne Joyrich, Mark Krupnick, Rüdiger Kunow, Hank Lazer, Steven Mailloux, Andrew Martin, Meaghan Morris, Karen Lee Osbourne, Donald Pease, Ross Posnock, Paula Rabinowitz, Russell Reising, Michael Rogin, Rolando J. Romero, Andrew Ross, José David Saldívar, James Sappenfield, Thomas H. Schaub, Ron Sillman, Margaret Soltan, Henry Sussman, Campbell Tatham, Carol Tennessen, Stanley Tigerman, Alan M. Wald, Kathleen Woodward, and Thomas Yingling
apr
20
Stanley Tigerman
Lecture: “Architectural Problems: Stasis, Otherness, Mimesis, Synthesis”
may
05
Meaghan Morris
Lecture: “Migrant Westerns: Max and the Sublime”
jul
12
Bernard Vincent
Lecture: “Thomas Paine and the French Revolution”
sep
22
Nancy Armstrong
Lecture: “On the Origins of Personal Life”
oct
05
Ian Hacking
Lecture: “Disunity of Science”
oct
19
Herbert Grabes
Lecture: “Writing Literary History”
oct
27
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Lecture: “Surname Viet Given Name Nam”
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
Iwao Iwamoto
Lecture: “Numbed Emotions: One Postmodern Characteristic of Japanese and American Fiction”
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
Lecture: “The Concept of the Public Sphere: Toward a Socialist Feminist Reconstruction”
apr
06
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
apr
16
Steve Fagin
Film Screening and Discussion: The Machine That Killed Bad People
apr
19–21
Conference: Discourses of the Emotions
with special guests Susan Bernstein, Sidney Bremer, Teresa Brown, Betsy Draine, and Judith Kegan Gardiner
Organized by Carol Tennessen
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