Jocelyn Benoist, “How Fiction Can Be Made True”

Gilman 208

@ Jocelyn Benoist, Professor of the Philosophy of Knowledge and Contemporary Philosophy, University Paris 1 Sorbonne “How Fiction Can Be Made True” Philosophy has always been suspicious of fiction. In the philosophical tradition, fiction has often been equated with a lie, or at least a form of false speech. This is a consequence of philosophers’ […]

Ben Morgan talk

Gilman 208

@ Ben Morgan, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford “How updating Frankfurt School political economy changes the way we think about a critical theory of culture in the 21st-century” The lecture shows the transformed potential of the interdisciplinary project of the Frankfurt School when the framework of economic […]

Jon Auring Grimm, “The Musicality of Nature and Cosmic Ornamentation”

Gilman 208

@ Jon Auring Grimm, PhD Candidate, Aarhus University “The Musicality of Nature and Cosmic Ornamentation: Poetic knowledge and ecological imagination in Inger Christensen“ The entire web of relationships among all existing phenomena that constitutes our world must lead to an increasingly refined understanding that our cultural forms, all human-made expressions, including the diverse forms of […]

How to behave: Queer Performances and Public Feelings in the Early Work of Scott Burton

Gilman 208

@ Please join us in welcoming David Getsy, historian and curator of art and performance at University of Virginia. Dr. Getsy will be discussing the early work of Scott Burton in a talk, “How to behave: Queer Performances and Public Feelings in the Early Work of Scott Burton.” The talk will take place on Wednesday, […]

Gregor Moder, “Hegel’s Antigone between Historicity and Subjectivity”

Gilman 208

@ Gregor Moder, Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubjana “Hegel’s Antigone between Historicity and Subjectivity” Hegel treated the myth of Antigone not as material for a particular work of art, but as a direct expression of the Greek world, as the shape of the world spirit in the Greek antiquity. If it were possible to […]