Past Events

Lecture by Katharina Gruzei: 'Media as projection space for
narrative fantasies and internal states'

Date

Thursday, May 28, 2009. 4:00pm

Meyer Library Building
Room 147

Lecture by Héctor Hoyos: 'Aftershock: Naomi Klein and the
Southern Cone'

Date

Tuesday, May 26, 2009. 1:15pm

Naomi Klein’s book-length essay 'The Shock Doctrine' (2007) draws extensively from Latin American history, theorists, and fiction writers. This talk elucidates such borrowings and theorizes…

Lecture by Ofelia Ferrán: 'The ‘Gift’ of Memory Writing and
Death in the Work of Jorge Semprún'

Date

Thursday, May 21, 2009. 1:00pm

Sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures.

Lecture by Bernhard Siegert (Weimar): 'Hybrid Objects: A
Media Genealogy of the Netherlandish Still Life'

Date

Wednesday, May 20, 2009. 6:15pm

Lecture by Antonis Balasopoulos: 'Political Animals:
Critical Reflections on Sovereignty and Bare Life in Giorgio
Agamben’s Work

Date

Thursday, May 14, 2009. 5:15pm

Building 260, Room 216

Lecture by Gisela Kozak

Date

Thursday, May 14, 2009. 1:00pm

Lecture by Sabine Hake (U. of Texas Austin): 'Weimar
Architectural Culture and the Question of Class'

Date

Wednesday, May 13, 2009. 6:15pm

Book Talk by Peter Balakian: 'The Armenian Golgotha -
Witness to the Armenian Genocide'

Date

Monday, May 11, 2009. 8:00pm

Location: Bldg 420, Rm 041

Lunch workshop with John Slater: "Preaching Alchemy:
Palingenesis and Power in Seventeenth-Century Spanish
Sermons"

Date

Friday, May 8, 2009. 12:00pm

A lunch workshop with John Slater, University of Colorado, Boulder. Lunch will be provided.

Lecture by John Slater: 'Cultivating an Anti-Machiavellian
Garden: The Politics of Plants in Baroque Spanish Poetry'

Date

Thursday, May 7, 2009. 5:30pm

The Research Unit in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University presents Renaissances, a lecture and workshop series on early modern literature with: