Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies - Fall 2013 Speakers Series Schedule
9:42 PM
Chiara Bottici
Assistant Professor Philosophy, New
School for Social Research
October 1st
Title of Talk: "Imaginal
Politics"
5:30
Dekalb 208 Seminar Room
Bio:
Chiara Bottici is Assistant
Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New
York. She is the author of Imaginal
Politics, forthcoming
from New Directions in Critical Theory Series at Columbia University
Press, which explores the link between our capacity to produce images
and politics in the current predicament. She also wrote A
Philosophy of Political Myth, published
by Cambridge University Press in 2007; and Uomini
e stati. Percorsi di un'analogia
(ETS, 2004), which was translated into English as Men
and States
(Palgrave, 2009). She is also co-author, with Benoit Challand, of
Imagining Europe:
Myth, Memory, Identity
(Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The
Myth of the Clash of Civilizations
(Routledge, 2010). With Benoit Challand, she also co-edited a
collection of essays entitled The
Politics of Imagination
(Routledge, 2011).
Sam Moyn
Professor of History, Columbia
University
October 15th
Title of Talk:
"Thinking about Human Rights History"
5:30 pm
Dekalb 208 Seminar Room
Bio:
Samuel Moyn teaches history at Columbia University. His most
recent book is "The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History'
(Harvard, 2010).
Cambell Family Professor of Cultural
Anthropology, Columbia University
November 5th
Title of Talk: "On
the origin of the so-called Mexican Race"
5:30 pm
Dekalb 208 Seminar Room
Bio:
Claudio Lomnitz works on culture and politics in Mexico and
the Americas. His books include include Evolución de una
sociedad rural (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1982); Exits
from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in Mexican National Space
(University of California Press, 1992); Modernidad Indiana: nación
y mediación en México (Planeta, 1999); Deep
Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism (University
of Minnesota Press, 2001); Death and the Idea of Mexico (Zone
Books, 2005); El antisemitismo y la ideología de la
Revolución Mexicana (Fondo de Cultura Económica,
2010) and, with Friedrich Katz, Una conversación sobre
México, su revolución y su historia (Edicioines
Era, 2011). His most recent book, The Return of Comrade Ricardo
Flores Magón is currently in press with Zone Books.
Lomnitz is also the author of a number
of journalistic essays, and writes a bi-monthly column for the Mexico
City newspaper La Jornada. He also wrote an historical play
that received Mexico’s National Drama Award. Lomnitz served a
6-year term as editor of the journal Public Culture, and is
currently co-editor of the books series Umbrales published by
Fondo de Cultura Económica. Claudio Lomnitz is the Campbell
Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and was a
Fellow at the Wissenchaftskolleg zu Berlin for 2011-12.
Director of Cultural Reporting and
Criticism at the
Aurthur L. Carter Journalism Institute,
New York University
Title of Talk: "What is the Image
We're Looking For? Depictions of Race and Class in American
Journalism and Photojournalism"
November, 21st
5:00 pm
Engineering Building Room 307
Susie Linfield is the author of The
Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence, which was a
finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism and
has been translated into Italian and Turkish. She is an associate
professor in the journalism department at New York University, where
she directs the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. Linfield
writes about politics and culture for an array of publications
including the Nation, the Washington Post Book World,
Aperture, Dissent, the New Republic, the Boston
Review, and Guernica.
Adjunct Professor of Theory and
Criticism, 20th Century Art and Philosophy
Columbia University
Title of Talk: "What is a Creative
Act?"
December 3rd
5:00 pm
Dekalb Seminar Room 208
Bio: John Rajchman is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Modern Art M.A. Programs in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He has previously taught at Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, and The Cooper Union, among others.
He is a Contributing Editor for Artforum and is on the board of Critical Space. Prof. Rajchman's works include: Michel Foucault: The Freedom of Philosophy (1985); Post-analytic Philosophy (1985) editor with Cornel West; Philosophical Events: Essays of the '80s (1991); Truth and Eros, Foucault, Lacan and the Question of Ethics (1991); The Identity in Question (1995) editor; Constructions (Writing Architecture) (1998); The Deleuze Connections (2000); Rendre la terre légère (2005); French Philosophy Since 1945: Problems, Concepts, Inventions (2011) editor with Etienne Balibar.
Bio: John Rajchman is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Modern Art M.A. Programs in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He has previously taught at Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, and The Cooper Union, among others.
He is a Contributing Editor for Artforum and is on the board of Critical Space. Prof. Rajchman's works include: Michel Foucault: The Freedom of Philosophy (1985); Post-analytic Philosophy (1985) editor with Cornel West; Philosophical Events: Essays of the '80s (1991); Truth and Eros, Foucault, Lacan and the Question of Ethics (1991); The Identity in Question (1995) editor; Constructions (Writing Architecture) (1998); The Deleuze Connections (2000); Rendre la terre légère (2005); French Philosophy Since 1945: Problems, Concepts, Inventions (2011) editor with Etienne Balibar.
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