Piergiorgio Donatelli, “Stanley Cavell: Cinema and Modernism”
Gilman 208Piergiorgio Donatelli Professor of Ethics and Chair, Department of Philosophy University of La Sapienza, Roma
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Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr. Talk
Gilman 208Walter Benn Michaels Professor, English, University of Illinois at Chicago Adolph Reed Professor Emeritus, Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, University of Pennsylvania "No Politics but Class Politics" Denouncing racism and celebrating diversity have become central to progressive politics. For many on the left, social justice seems to consist of an equitable […]
Julietta Singh, “Against Home in the Settler Colony”
Gilman 208Julietta Singh Professor of English and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Richmond "Against Home in the Settler Colony" What does “home” mean in the settler colony, and how does that term come to resound differently for and across communities? How might our homes—the places we grew up and the places we now inhabit—become […]
Maia Sigua and Nana Sharikadze, “Crossroads and Crisis in Georgian Culture”
Maia Sigua Associate Professor, V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire Nana Sharikadze Associate Professor, V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire "Crossroads and Crisis in Georgian Culture: Decolonization and Resurgent Sovietism" Prof. Sigua will discuss the formation (and deformation) of collective and cultural memory in the Soviet era, using the example of Georgian opera theatre, and how some […]