Angela McRobbie

Open Discussion: “New Times in Cultural Studies”

Conference: On Fashion

Angela McRobbie and Jane Gaines

Teresa de Lauretis

Lecture: “Film and the Primal Fantasy – One More Time”

Benjamin Buchloh

Lecture: “From Collage to Décollage/From Detail to Fragment”

Research Seminar: Materializing Culture

with presentations by Phyllis Rackin and Gwynne Kennedy

Beatriz Colomina

Lecture: “About Windows: The Architecture of the Media”

Conference: Adorno and Music

Bernard Gendron, Robert Hullot-Kentor, Mia Carter, Jamie Owen Daniel, Ulrich Schoenherr, Marcus Bullock, Miriam Hansen, Loren Kruger, Yehuda Yannay

Elizabeth Long

Lecture: “Between Public Culture and Private Lives: Women’s Reading Groups and the Making of the Middle Classes”

Yevgeny Yevtushenko and James Ragan

Lecture: “Poetry and Politics”

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

Catherine Belsey

Lecture: “Reading Love Stories”

Marianne McDonald

Lecture: Sun to Spotlight: Ancient Greek Tragedy in Modern Plays”

NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers: Performance Theory: Modern Drama and Postmodern Theater

Director: Herbert Blau

Norman Bryson

Lecture: “Art History and ‘the Gaze’”

Susan Manning

Lecture: “Feminism and Nationalism in Modern Dance: Mary Wigman in Germany and the United States”

Herbert Grabes

Lecture: “The Revival of the Sublime and Recent Aesthetics”

Mike Featherstone

Lecture: “The Heroic Life and Everyday Life”

Edwin London and Yehuda Yannay

Lecture and Performance: “When the Eyes Hear Music, the Ears See the Light”

Stephen Bann

Lecture: “The Framing of Material: Around Degas’s Bureau de Coton”

Jaroslav Macháček

Lecture: “Repression, Revolution, and Higher Education: The Case of Czechoslavakia”

David Bordwell

Lecture: “Codes, Construction, and Cinematic Vision”

Anthony Vidler

Lecture: “Psychopathologies of Modern Space”

Chris Bratton

Video/Presentation: “ ‘The Infinite Din of Their Amateur Judgments’: Documentary Forms and Educational Activism”

Rey Chow

Seminar: “The Question of the Subaltern in the American Academy”
Lecture: “The Forces of Surfaces: Remarks on Contemporary Chinese Cinema”

Marianne Hirsch

Lecture: “Family Pictures: Photography and Narratives of Loss”

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

Jonathan Coleman

Lecture: “The Art and Responsibility of Literary Journalism”

Sarah Hanley

Lecture: “‘Uneasy States’: Politics and Gender in Early Modern France, 1500-1789”

Mary Louise Pratt

Lecture: “Decolonizing Theory:…”

Panel: Beyond Exile: Intellectuals Abroad

with Ackbar Abbas, Ihab Hassan, Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan

Nancy Fraser

Lecture: “Decoding ‘Dependency’: A Genealogy of a Keyword of the Welfare State”

Andrew Hook

Lecture: “Scotland and the Invention of the USA: The Reception of Gary Will’s Inventing America”

Sally Mann

Lecture: “Immediate Family”

Panel: Questioning Public and Private: A Point of Interdisciplinary Contact?

with Paul Brodwin, Kristie Hamilton, and Sylvia Schafer

Anthony Leo Geist

Lecture: “The Muse of Democracy: Modernism and Postmodernism in Spanish Poetry after Franco”

Gilbert Herdt

Lecture: “Public, Private, and Secret: Secrecy and Individual Rights in Society”

Marge Piercy and Ira Wood

Reading

George Chauncey

Lecture: “Rethinking the History of the Closet”

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

Martha Fineman

Lecture: “Feminism and the Regulation of Families”

Mark Tansey

Lecture: “Image and Idea”

Susan McClary

Lecture: “Does Gender Matter? Theorizing Music by Women Composers”

Robert A. Walser

Lecture: “Clamor and Community in Hip Hop Music”

Tricia Rose

Lecture: “Soul Sonic Forces: Technology, Orality, and Black Cultural Practice in Rap Music”

Leo Bersani

Lecture: “Arts of Impoverishment”

Christopher Lane

Lecture: “Giacometti’s Immanence and the Anorexic Body”

John McPhee

Reading, with Yolanda McPhee

Alexander Nehamas

Lecture: “What Should We Expect from Reading? (There Are Only Aesthetic Values)”

Mary Kelly

Lecture: “Gloria Patri: On Display”

Faye Ginsburg

Lecture: “Indigenous Media in the Late Twentieth Century: ‘Bad Home Movies’ or the Aesthetics of Identity?”

Panel: Studies in Musical Culture 3

with Susan Cook, Bernard Gendron, and James Miller

Performance: Jacob’s Room

A chamber opera by Morton Subotnick
Directed by Herbert Blau

Manthia Diawara

Lecture: “The City in African Film”

Andreas Huyssen

Seminar: “Fascism and Aesthetics”
Lecture: “The Museums as Mass Media”

Judith Fetterley

Lecture: “‘Not in the Least American’: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism”

Conference on Rigoberta Menchú

Coco Fusco

Screening: The Couple in the Cage

Tracey Moffatt

Screening: Bedevil

Hal Foster

Lecture: Prosthetic Gods”

Alison Jaggar

Lecture: “Towards a Feminist Conception of Moral Reasoning”

Julie Ellison

Lecture: “The History of Liberal Guilt”

Toby Miller

Lecture: “Historical Citizenship and the Fremantle Prison Follies: Frederick Wiseman Comes to Western Australia”

Barbara Stafford

Lecture: “The Aesthetics of Medical Ethics”

Lee Edelman

Lecture: “The Ethics of Enjoyment: Queering Queer Nationalism”

Anson Rabinbach

Lecture: “Metaphors of the Industrial Body: Beyond the Work Centered Society”

Alexander Gelley

Lecture: “Artwork, Commodity, Fetish: Contexts of the ‘Aesthetic’ in Walter Benjamin”

Alan Aycock

Informal Research Seminar, “on Foucault and the Internet”

Peter Winch

Lecture: “Can We Understand Ourselves?”

Arthur Kleinman

Lecture: “The Anthropology of Medical Ethics”

Henri Cole

Reading: The Look of Things (1995)

Duncan Kennedy

Lecture: “The Judicial Icon”

Cornel West

Lecture: “Race Matters”

Marilyn Hacker

Reading: Winter Numbers and Selected Poems

Conference: José Martí, 1895-1995: A Re-Evaluation

Arjun Appadurai

Lecture, “Sovereignty, Rights and Territory: Notes for a Postnational Geography”

STELARC

Lecture and demonstration

Sumita Chakravarty

Lecture: “The Erotics of History: Representing the Third World (as) Body in Film and Literature”

Lawrence Cohen

Lecture: “The Age of Things: Notes on the Body in Time”

Isaac Julien

Screening and discussion

Susan Squier

Lecture: “Reproductive Technologies and the New Fetal/Maternal Relation”

Thomas R. Cole

Lecture: “Aging, Life History and Madness: A Case of Historical Recovery”

Margaret Lock

Lecture: “Disputing the Rhetoric of Risk: Women Aging in Japan and North America”

David William Foster

Lecture: “Hispanic Gay Literature”

Richard Rorty

Lecture: “The Intellectuals and the Poor”

Evan Carton

Lecture: “‘Nous sommes tous des Juifs allemands’: The Holocaust, French Poststructuralist Theory, and the American Literary Academy”

Anne Balsamo

Lecture: “Science, Technology, and Culture: Popular Knowledges and Forms of Institutionalization”

Homi K. Bhabha

Lecture: “Nation and Narration, revisited”

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

Tania Modleski

Lecture: “Gender and the Genre Film”

Judith Halberstam

Lecture: “Technologies of Masculinity: A Short History of Male Impersonation”

Randy Bass

Lecture: “The Virtual, the Local, the Story, and Its Archive”

David Arnold

Lecture: Inventing the Tropics: Empire, Medicine, and Environment”

Nguyen Huy Thiep

Talk: “Viet History and Vietnamese Literature”

Steven Conner

Lecture: “Voice, Technology, and the Ventriloquial Sensorium”

Jerome McGann

Lecture: “Bodies Electric; or, The Modern Scholarly Prometheus (Our Hideous Progeny)”

Gabriele Schwab

Lecture: “Imaginary Ethnographies: The Anthropological Turn in Literary Studies”

Simon Penny

Lecture: “Body Knowledge, Digital Prostheses and Cognitive Diversity”

Jane Gallop

Lecture: “Sexual Harassment and Intellectual Inquiry: A Case Study”

Barbara Katz Rothman

Lecture: “Spoiling the Pregnancy: Introducing Prenatal Diagnosis to the Netherlands”

Debate: The Gay Scene

with Christopher Lane, J. Michael Bailey, Daryl J. Bem
Resondent: Jeff King

Ihab Hassan

Lecture: “Between Nihilism and Belief: Spirit in Postmodern Times”

Margaret Morse

Lecture: “Eloquent Blood: Bodies in Thought”

Martina Lopez

Lecture: “A Visual Diary”

Judith Roof

Lecture: “Close Encounters: Baseball, Aliens, and Thelma and Louise”

Candace Vogler

Lecture: “Bad Bodies: The Strange North American Obsession with Female Fat”

Esther Parada

Lecture: “…To Make All Mankind Aquaintances”

Alan Nadel

Lecture: “Black Bodies in White Space: Rodney King and The Fugitive (Slave)”

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

Art Installation: The Lost Art of Healing

Eric Avery, Jane Petro, and Lily Pink

David Marriott

Lecture: “Black War Machines: From Racial Prosthetics to Black Hypochondria”

Leni Hoffmann

Lecture: “Exhibiting Culture”

Yvonne Rainer

Screening and discussion: Murder and murder

Herbert Blau

Lecture: “Troubling over Appearances”

Dalia Bellavance

Lecture: “Book Culture”

Daniel J. Sherman

Lecture: “Seeing the Signified: Art, Memory, and Representation in France after World War I”

Catherine Elgin

Lecture: “Creation as Reconfiguration”

Tony Tasset

Lecture

W.J.T Mitchell

Lecture: “Paleoart, Or How the Dinosaurs Broke into MoMA”

Jane Desmond

Lecture: “Picturing Hawai’i: The ‘Ideal’ Native and the Origins of Tourism (1880-1915)”

Andrew Ross

Lecture: “Living with the Disney Mouse: A Report from Celebration, Fla.”

Mark Meadow

Lecture: “Microcosms: Objects of Knowledge (A University Collects)”

Conference: Public Showing

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

Rey Chow

Lecture: “The Study of China in the Age of Theory”

Robert N. Butler

Lecture: “Life in an Older America: The 21st Century”

Richard Ohmann

Lecture: “What’s Happening to Our Class? Can History Tell?”
respondants: Jennifer Maher and Richard Nanian

Paul Rabinow

Lecture: “French DNA”

Yvonne Spielmann

Lecture: “Imaging in Electronic Media”

Yvonne Spielmann

Lecture: “Imaging in Electronic Media”

Louise Antony

Lecture: “Objectivity In Situ”

Sally Haslanger

Lecture: “Defining Knowledge: Feminist Politics and Normative Epistemology”

Anne Higonnet

Lecture: “Childhood, Sentimentality, and Scandal”

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

Gayatri Spivak

A question and answer session

Monica Garbowska

Lecture: “Victims, Witnesses, Observers:
Responses to the Holocaust in Polish and American Literature”
Respondents: Daniel Listoe and Gary Weissman

Anne Davis Basting and Dick Blau

Lecture: “Time Slips: Storytelling with People with Alzheimer’s”

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

Harriet Ritvo

Lecture: “Connecting with Animals”

Andrew Ross

Lecture: “Living with the Mouse: A Report from Celebration, Fla.”

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Lecture: “Animal Relatives, Difficult Relations”

George Gittoes

Lecture: “Art and Atrocity”

Akira Mizuta Lippit

Lecture: “Electric Animal: Ontology, Psyche, Film and Wild Technology”

Kari Weil

Lecture: “Purebreds and Amazons: Saying Things with Horses in Nineteenth-Century France”

John Haugeland

Lecture: “The Meaning of Life: How People Differ from (Other) Animals”

Art Exhibit

by Dick Blau and Beth Thielen

Roundtable Discussion: Is There an Art to Healthcare?

Play: Time Slips

written by Anne Basting
directed by Gülgün Kayim

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