sep
18
Angela McRobbie
Open Discussion: “New Times in Cultural Studies”
sep
21
Conference: On Fashion
Angela McRobbie and Jane Gaines
sep
27
Teresa de Lauretis
Lecture: “Film and the Primal Fantasy – One More Time”
oct
12
Benjamin Buchloh
Lecture: “From Collage to Décollage/From Detail to Fragment”
nov
02
Research Seminar: Materializing Culture
with presentations by Phyllis Rackin and Gwynne Kennedy
nov
16
Beatriz Colomina
Lecture: “About Windows: The Architecture of the Media”
nov
30
Conference: Adorno and Music
Bernard Gendron, Robert Hullot-Kentor, Mia Carter, Jamie Owen Daniel, Ulrich Schoenherr, Marcus Bullock, Miriam Hansen, Loren Kruger, Yehuda Yannay
feb
15
Elizabeth Long
Lecture: “Between Public Culture and Private Lives: Women’s Reading Groups and the Making of the Middle Classes”
apr
03
Yevgeny Yevtushenko and James Ragan
Lecture: “Poetry and Politics”
apr
04-05
Conference: Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question
Leslie Adelson, Angelika Bammer, Marcus Bullock, Elaine Chang, Rey Chow, Brian Doherty, Jane Gallop, Cheryl Johnson, Ronald Judy, Mary Layoun, Martine Meyer, Kathryn Milun, Panivong Norindr, Aine O’Brien, Patrice Petro, Robin Pickering-Iazzi, Roby Rajan, Julio Ramos, Karen Remmler, Sheila Roberts, Rolando Romero, Heidrun Suhr, Carol Tennessen, David Wallace, William Washabaugh, Kathleen Woodward, Pemina Yellow Bird, Yuan Yuan
apr
09
Catherine Belsey
Lecture: “Reading Love Stories”
apr
16
Marianne McDonald
Lecture: Sun to Spotlight: Ancient Greek Tragedy in Modern Plays”
jun
17
NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers: Performance Theory: Modern Drama and Postmodern Theater
Director: Herbert Blau
sep
20
Norman Bryson
Lecture: “Art History and ‘the Gaze’”
oct
04
Susan Manning
Lecture: “Feminism and Nationalism in Modern Dance: Mary Wigman in Germany and the United States”
oct
17
Herbert Grabes
Lecture: “The Revival of the Sublime and Recent Aesthetics”
nov
07
Mike Featherstone
Lecture: “The Heroic Life and Everyday Life”
nov
08
Edwin London and Yehuda Yannay
Lecture and Performance: “When the Eyes Hear Music, the Ears See the Light”
nov
19 & 22
Stephen Bann
Lecture: “The Framing of Material: Around Degas’s Bureau de Coton”
nov
19 & 22
Jaroslav Macháček
Lecture: “Repression, Revolution, and Higher Education: The Case of Czechoslavakia”
dec
06
David Bordwell
Lecture: “Codes, Construction, and Cinematic Vision”
feb
21
Anthony Vidler
Lecture: “Psychopathologies of Modern Space”
feb
28
Chris Bratton
Video/Presentation: “ ‘The Infinite Din of Their Amateur Judgments’: Documentary Forms and Educational Activism”
mar
10 & 13
Rey Chow
Seminar: “The Question of the Subaltern in the American Academy”
Lecture: “The Forces of Surfaces: Remarks on Contemporary Chinese Cinema”
mar
27
Marianne Hirsch
Lecture: “Family Pictures: Photography and Narratives of Loss”
apr
23-25
Conference: Visual Culture: Film/Photography/History
Herbert Blau, Edward Buscombe, Philippe Dubois, Tom Gunning, Miriam Hansen, Lynne Kirby, Patricia Mellencamp, Patrice Petro, Griselda Pollock, Eric Rentschler, Allan Sekula, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Sally Stein, John Tagg, Linda Williams, Charles Wolfe
may
01
Jonathan Coleman
Lecture: “The Art and Responsibility of Literary Journalism”
oct
02
Sarah Hanley
Lecture: “‘Uneasy States’: Politics and Gender in Early Modern France, 1500-1789”
oct
22
Mary Louise Pratt
Lecture: “Decolonizing Theory:…”
oct
23
Panel: Beyond Exile: Intellectuals Abroad
with Ackbar Abbas, Ihab Hassan, Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan
oct
30
Nancy Fraser
Lecture: “Decoding ‘Dependency’: A Genealogy of a Keyword of the Welfare State”
nov
06
Andrew Hook
Lecture: “Scotland and the Invention of the USA: The Reception of Gary Will’s Inventing America”
nov
13
Lecture: “Immediate Family”
feb
05
Panel: Questioning Public and Private: A Point of Interdisciplinary Contact?
with Paul Brodwin, Kristie Hamilton, and Sylvia Schafer
feb
12
Anthony Leo Geist
Lecture: “The Muse of Democracy: Modernism and Postmodernism in Spanish Poetry after Franco”
feb
19
Gilbert Herdt
Lecture: “Public, Private, and Secret: Secrecy and Individual Rights in Society”
mar
09
Marge Piercy and Ira Wood
Reading
mar
26
George Chauncey
Lecture: “Rethinking the History of the Closet”
apr
15-17
Conference: Pedagogy: The Question of the Personal
Arthur Frank, Jane Gallop, Madeleine Grumet, Gregory Jay, Cheryl Johnson, Lynne Joyrich, Indira Karamcheti, Kate Kramer, Joseph Litvak, Susan Lowry, Susan Miller, George Otte, Jo Anne Pagano, Sylvia Schafer, Naomi Scheman, Roger Simon, Sharon Sharon Traweek, Miriam Wallace, Sandra Bartky, Pamela Caughie, Alice Gillam, Lynn Worsham, Mary Louise Buley-Meissner, Susan Stanford Friedman, Patrocinio Schweickart
apr
30
Martha Fineman
Lecture: “Feminism and the Regulation of Families”
sep
10
Mark Tansey
Lecture: “Image and Idea”
sep
17
Susan McClary
Lecture: “Does Gender Matter? Theorizing Music by Women Composers”
sep
17
Robert A. Walser
Lecture: “Clamor and Community in Hip Hop Music”
oct
08
Tricia Rose
Lecture: “Soul Sonic Forces: Technology, Orality, and Black Cultural Practice in Rap Music”
oct
29
Leo Bersani
Lecture: “Arts of Impoverishment”
oct
29
Christopher Lane
Lecture: “Giacometti’s Immanence and the Anorexic Body”
nov
03
Reading, with Yolanda McPhee
nov
12
Alexander Nehamas
Lecture: “What Should We Expect from Reading? (There Are Only Aesthetic Values)”
nov
19
Mary Kelly
Lecture: “Gloria Patri: On Display”
dec
03
Faye Ginsburg
Lecture: “Indigenous Media in the Late Twentieth Century: ‘Bad Home Movies’ or the Aesthetics of Identity?”
jan
28
Panel: Studies in Musical Culture 3
with Susan Cook, Bernard Gendron, and James Miller
feb
02-03
A chamber opera by Morton Subotnick
Directed by Herbert Blau
feb
04
Manthia Diawara
Lecture: “The City in African Film”
feb
08 & 11
Andreas Huyssen
Seminar: “Fascism and Aesthetics”
Lecture: “The Museums as Mass Media”
mar
04
Judith Fetterley
Lecture: “‘Not in the Least American’: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism”
mar
25
Conference on Rigoberta Menchú
apr
15
Coco Fusco
Screening: The Couple in the Cage
apr
15
Tracey Moffatt
Screening: Bedevil
apr
15
Hal Foster
Lecture: Prosthetic Gods”
sep
30
Alison Jaggar
Lecture: “Towards a Feminist Conception of Moral Reasoning”
sep
30
Julie Ellison
Lecture: “The History of Liberal Guilt”
oct
13
Toby Miller
Lecture: “Historical Citizenship and the Fremantle Prison Follies: Frederick Wiseman Comes to Western Australia”
oct
28
Barbara Stafford
Lecture: “The Aesthetics of Medical Ethics”
dec
02
Lee Edelman
Lecture: “The Ethics of Enjoyment: Queering Queer Nationalism”
feb
01
Anson Rabinbach
Lecture: “Metaphors of the Industrial Body: Beyond the Work Centered Society”
feb
13
Alexander Gelley
Lecture: “Artwork, Commodity, Fetish: Contexts of the ‘Aesthetic’ in Walter Benjamin”
feb
22
Alan Aycock
Informal Research Seminar, “on Foucault and the Internet”
mar
03
Peter Winch
Lecture: “Can We Understand Ourselves?”
mar
03
Lecture: “The Anthropology of Medical Ethics”
mar
22
Henri Cole
Reading: The Look of Things (1995)
mar
24
Duncan Kennedy
Lecture: “The Judicial Icon”
mar
29
Cornel West
Lecture: “Race Matters”
apr
12
Marilyn Hacker
Reading: Winter Numbers and Selected Poems
apr
21
Conference: José Martí, 1895-1995: A Re-Evaluation
apr
28
Lecture, “Sovereignty, Rights and Territory: Notes for a Postnational Geography”
sep
29
Lecture and demonstration
oct
06
Sumita Chakravarty
Lecture: “The Erotics of History: Representing the Third World (as) Body in Film and Literature”
oct
20
Lawrence Cohen
Lecture: “The Age of Things: Notes on the Body in Time”
oct
27
Isaac Julien
Screening and discussion
nov
10
Susan Squier
Lecture: “Reproductive Technologies and the New Fetal/Maternal Relation”
dec
01
Thomas R. Cole
Lecture: “Aging, Life History and Madness: A Case of Historical Recovery”
feb
09
Margaret Lock
Lecture: “Disputing the Rhetoric of Risk: Women Aging in Japan and North America”
feb
15
David William Foster
Lecture: “Hispanic Gay Literature”
feb
16
Lecture: “The Intellectuals and the Poor”
feb
15
Evan Carton
Lecture: “‘Nous sommes tous des Juifs allemands’: The Holocaust, French Poststructuralist Theory, and the American Literary Academy”
mar
28
Anne Balsamo
Lecture: “Science, Technology, and Culture: Popular Knowledges and Forms of Institutionalization”
mar
29
Homi K. Bhabha
Lecture: “Nation and Narration, revisited”
apr
18-20
Conference: Women & Aging: Bodies, Cultures, Generations
Nancy K. Miller, Mary Russo, Stephen Katz, Susan Squier, E. Ann Kaplan, Anne Davis Basting, Virginia Blum, Glenda Laws, Rebecca Wepsic, Charlotte H. Wellman, Elisia Facio, Marie-Claire Pasquier, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Joanne M. Braxton, Joanna Frueh, Vivian Sobchack, Patricia Mellencamp, Ayisha Abraham, Jodi Brooks, Anca Cristofovici, Nancy Backes, Bethany Ladimer, Christiane Orcel, Teresa Mangum, Deborah Owen, Robin Pickering-Iazzi, Elinor Fuchs, Susan Cole, Christine T. Lowery, Kathleen Woodward, Teresa Brennan, Jacqueline Hayden, Cecelia Condit, Dick Blau, Rachel Rosenthal, W. Andrew Achenbaum, Ana Zahira Bassit, Mike Featherstone, Hilary Harris, Susan Heidrich, Melinda Heywood, Sharon Keigher, Laura Stempel Mumford, Diane Rothenberg, Anne M. Wyatt-Brown
apr
26
Tania Modleski
Lecture: “Gender and the Genre Film”
sep
20
Judith Halberstam
Lecture: “Technologies of Masculinity: A Short History of Male Impersonation”
sep
26
Randy Bass
Lecture: “The Virtual, the Local, the Story, and Its Archive”
oct
04
David Arnold
Lecture: Inventing the Tropics: Empire, Medicine, and Environment”
oct
18
Nguyen Huy Thiep
Talk: “Viet History and Vietnamese Literature”
oct
23
Steven Conner
Lecture: “Voice, Technology, and the Ventriloquial Sensorium”
oct
25
Jerome McGann
Lecture: “Bodies Electric; or, The Modern Scholarly Prometheus (Our Hideous Progeny)”
oct
28
Gabriele Schwab
Lecture: “Imaginary Ethnographies: The Anthropological Turn in Literary Studies”
nov
15
Simon Penny
Lecture: “Body Knowledge, Digital Prostheses and Cognitive Diversity”
nov
22
Jane Gallop
Lecture: “Sexual Harassment and Intellectual Inquiry: A Case Study”
dec
06
Barbara Katz Rothman
Lecture: “Spoiling the Pregnancy: Introducing Prenatal Diagnosis to the Netherlands”
jan
31
Debate: The Gay Scene
with Christopher Lane, J. Michael Bailey, Daryl J. Bem
Resondent: Jeff King
feb
14
Ihab Hassan
Lecture: “Between Nihilism and Belief: Spirit in Postmodern Times”
feb
28
Margaret Morse
Lecture: “Eloquent Blood: Bodies in Thought”
feb
28
Martina Lopez
Lecture: “A Visual Diary”
mar
14
Judith Roof
Lecture: “Close Encounters: Baseball, Aliens, and Thelma and Louise”
apr
04
Candace Vogler
Lecture: “Bad Bodies: The Strange North American Obsession with Female Fat”
apr
10
Esther Parada
Lecture: “…To Make All Mankind Aquaintances”
apr
11
Alan Nadel
Lecture: “Black Bodies in White Space: Rodney King and The Fugitive (Slave)”
apr
24-26
Conference: Biotechnology, Culture, and the Body
Eric Avery, Paul Brodwin, Lisa Cartwright, Sarah Davies Cordova, Thomas Csordas, Richard Doyle, Michael M. J. Fischer, Jane Gallop, Pamela Gilbert, Marshall Goodman, Gillian Goslinga, Deborah Grayson, Donald Joralemon, Hannah Landecker, Thomas Laqueuer, Sandra Soo Jin Lee, Helen Longino, Mary Mahowald, Patricia Marshall, Ellen McCallum, Robert M. Nelson, Panivong Norindr, Jane Petro, Lily Pink, Karen Riggs, Caroline Seymour-Jorn, Susan Squier, Janelle Taylor, José Van Dijck, William Van Pelt, Angela Wall, Alice Wexler, Kathleen Woodward
apr
24
Art Installation: The Lost Art of Healing
Eric Avery, Jane Petro, and Lily Pink
sep
05
David Marriott
Lecture: “Black War Machines: From Racial Prosthetics to Black Hypochondria”
sep
22
Leni Hoffmann
Lecture: “Exhibiting Culture”
oct
11
Yvonne Rainer
Screening and discussion: Murder and murder
oct
17
Herbert Blau
Lecture: “Troubling over Appearances”
nov
03
Dalia Bellavance
Lecture: “Book Culture”
nov
14
Lecture: “Seeing the Signified: Art, Memory, and Representation in France after World War I”
nov
21
Catherine Elgin
Lecture: “Creation as Reconfiguration”
jan
23
Tony Tasset
Lecture
feb
06
W.J.T Mitchell
Lecture: “Paleoart, Or How the Dinosaurs Broke into MoMA”
feb
20
Jane Desmond
Lecture: “Picturing Hawai’i: The ‘Ideal’ Native and the Origins of Tourism (1880-1915)”
mar
24
Andrew Ross
Lecture: “Living with the Disney Mouse: A Report from Celebration, Fla.”
apr
03
Mark Meadow
Lecture: “Microcosms: Objects of Knowledge (A University Collects)”
apr
16-18
Felix Angel, Doug Ashford, Herbert Blau, Mark Bradley, Jamie Owen Daniel, Rebecca J. DeRoo, Gail Dubrow, Claire F. Fox, Jane Gallop, Maria Gough, The Guerrilla Girls, Jacqueline Hayden, Carla I. Corbin, Lawrence Hoey, Michelle S. Johnson, Catherine Lord, Roxana Marcoci, Loren Mayor, Pedro Meyer, Arvind Rajagopal, Jock Reynolds, Suzanne Hellmuth, Mark B. Sandberg, Marcia Tucker, Paul Vanouse, Steffi Domike, Michael Mateas, Deborah Willis, James E. Young. Organized by Leslie Bellavance and Marina Pérez de Mendiola
sep
11
Rey Chow
Lecture: “The Study of China in the Age of Theory”
sep
25
Robert N. Butler
Lecture: “Life in an Older America: The 21st Century”
oct
09
oct
23
Richard Ohmann
Lecture: “What’s Happening to Our Class? Can History Tell?”
respondants: Jennifer Maher and Richard Nanian
oct
30
Lecture: “French DNA”
nov
02
Yvonne Spielmann
Lecture: “Imaging in Electronic Media”
nov
02
Yvonne Spielmann
Lecture: “Imaging in Electronic Media”
nov
13
Louise Antony
Lecture: “Objectivity In Situ”
nov
13
Sally Haslanger
Lecture: “Defining Knowledge: Feminist Politics and Normative Epistemology”
feb
11
Anne Higonnet
Lecture: “Childhood, Sentimentality, and Scandal”
feb
12-13
Workshop: Anthropology, Genetic Diversity, and Ethics
Mike Bamshad, Frank Dukepoo, Morris Foster, Jonathan Friedlaender, Henry Greely, Lynn Jorde, Eric Juengst, Frederika Kaestle, Jeffrey Long, Alice Martin, J.M. Naidu, Dennis O’Rourke, Charmaine Royal
Organized by Trudy Turner
mar
24
A question and answer session
mar
26
Monica Garbowska
Lecture: “Victims, Witnesses, Observers:
Responses to the Holocaust in Polish and American Literature”
Respondents: Daniel Listoe and Gary Weissman
apr
23
Anne Davis Basting and Dick Blau
Lecture: “Time Slips: Storytelling with People with Alzheimer’s”
apr
29
Conference: Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge
Rachel Adams, Paula Amad, Mark Amerika, Jack Bratich, Susan Burgess, John Caldwell, Elizabeth Coffman, Michelle Glaros, Lawrence Cohen, Roderick Coover, Susan Courtney, David Crane, John Di Stefano, Mary Ann Doane, M. Flanagan, Bernard Gendron, Jill Godmilow, Herman Gray, Mark Hansen, Amelie Hastie, Gina Hausknecht, James Hay, Lynne Joyrich, Cheryl Knott Malone, Robert McChesney, Patricia Mellencamp, Constance Penley, James Schwoch, Mehdi Semati, Mimi White, Mark Williams, Stephen Wilson
Organized by Lynne Joyrich
sep
24
Harriet Ritvo
Lecture: “Connecting with Animals”
oct
01
Andrew Ross
Lecture: “Living with the Mouse: A Report from Celebration, Fla.”
oct
08
Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Lecture: “Animal Relatives, Difficult Relations”
oct
08
George Gittoes
Lecture: “Art and Atrocity”
nov
12
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Lecture: “Electric Animal: Ontology, Psyche, Film and Wild Technology”
nov
19
Kari Weil
Lecture: “Purebreds and Amazons: Saying Things with Horses in Nineteenth-Century France”
dec
03
John Haugeland
Lecture: “The Meaning of Life: How People Differ from (Other) Animals”
mar
04-31
Art Exhibit
by Dick Blau and Beth Thielen
mar
29
Roundtable Discussion: Is There an Art to Healthcare?
may
12-20
Play: Time Slips
written by Anne Basting
directed by Gülgün Kayim
apr
13-15
Conference: Representing Animals
Mark Alvey, Steve Baker, Mary Benbow, Charles Bergman, Marcus Bullock, Jonathan Burt, Yoram Carmeli, Cynthia Chris, Lisa Coulthard, Janet Davis, Jane Desmond, Helene Dwyer, Elizabeth Frank, Erika Fudge, Katherine Grier, Lane Hall, Masumi Iriye, Andrew Isenberg, Kathleen Kete, Alphonso Lingis, Garry Marvin, Susan McHugh, Robert McKay, Clay McShane, Brett Mizelle, Frank Noelker, Jennifer Price, Walter Putnam, Karen Rader, Alan Read, Louise Robbins, Sheila Roberts, Nigel Rothfels, Stephanie Rowe, Jo-Ann Shelton, Joel Snyder, Karen Warren, Andrzej Wisniewski, Paul Young
Organized by Nigel Rothfels and Andrew Isenberg
1970s: Film, Performance, Language, and Technology
1980s: Feminism, Modernism, and Culture
2000s: War, Sovereignty, Gender, Space
2010s: The Digital, Nonhuman Turn, Anthropocene, Indigeneities