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May 16, 2019 Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago "On Being in Life Without Wanting the World (Living with Ellipsis)" |
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November 8, 2017 Dudley Andrew is R. Selden Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University. "Jean Renoir and the Writers in his Father's Circle" |
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January 24, 2017 Gordon Hutner is Professor of English at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The 21st Century U.S Novel: An Anatomy" |
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May 26, 2015 Lisa Lowe is Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University, and a member of the consortium of studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. "A Fetishism of Colonial Commodities" |
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February 20, 2014 Barbara Foley is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. "Biography and the Political Unconscious" |
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May 14, 2013 John Beverley is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Language and Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. "The Literary Humanities and the Promise of Equality" |
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April 19, 2012 David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor in Chinese Literature, Harvard University, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Sinica. "Reinventing the Lyrical: the Making of Chinese Literary Modernity" |
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May 10, 2010 Cherríe L. Moraga is playwright, poet, and essayist whose plays and publications have received national recognition. "A Small Nation of Remember: On the Road to Xicana Consciencia" |
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May 10, 2010 Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara Former Chair, UC Academic Senate Planning and Budget Committee "The End of the Public University - and the Beginning of the Next" |
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October 19, 2006 Silver Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures NYU "Migrancy, Empire and the Politics of Language: Toward a Geolinguistic Imagination" |
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May 8, 2006 Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies UCLA "Learning from the Enemy: On the French Prehistory of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion" |
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April 28, 2005 Graduate Chair, Department of English University of Pennsylvania "Where is Guantánamo?" |
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May 13, 2004 William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Studies and English Yale University "The Rhetoric of Class in the Era of Globalization" |
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April 29, 2003 Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature UC Berkeley "Precarious Life" |
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May 17, 2001 Professor, The Graduate Center City University of New York "The Art of Rent: Globalization and the Commodification of Culture" |
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May 23, 2000 Department of History SUNY Stony Brook "Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City" |
May 13, 1999 Columbia University “Latin American Culture and the Cold War” |
November 20, 1997 Yale University “Body and Soul: Paul Robeson and the Modernist Aesthetic” |
May 6, 1992 Journalist “Workers and Nations in Capital’s World" |
April 30, 1991 Princeton University “Bush’s ‘New World Order’ vs. A Better World” |
April 23, 1990 “On Transforming the American Mind: Race and The Canon” |
April 13, 1989 “The Voice of a Latin American Writer” |
February 18, 1988 Harvard University (no title) |
May 19, 1987 Columbia University “Culture and Imperialism” |
April 16, 1986 Stanford University “The First Myth of Modern Individualism: Faust” |
January 24, 2017 April 17, 1985 UC Santa Cruz “World Literature in the Era of Late Capitalism” |
April 19, 1984 “The Novel” |
April 6, 1983 NYU “Ideas and How to Escape from Them” |
April 21, 1982 Author Author “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place To Be” |