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Past Lecture Events

Thu, 4/4 · 6:00 pm8:20 pm · Betts Auditorium

[Cancelled] An evening with Orlando | Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture

Paul B. Preciado, philosopher and filmmaker

Program in European Cultural Studies; Program in Media and Modernity; School of Architecture

April 6, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio, Lewis Arts complex

Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture – Giving the Working Class a Body: Politics, Literature, and Class War

Édouard Louis, author

Program in European Cultural Studies

February 23, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 300 Wallace Hall

Europe and the Wolf: Militant Economies of Sound in Pere Portabella and Carles Santos

Sara Nadal-Melsió, Slought Foundation

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

November 1, 2022 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Room N107, School of Architecture

Getting to the Point. Genealogies of the Analog Code

Wolfgang Schäffner, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Graduate Program in Media and Modernity

March 3, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Clipping in and out of the Trenches: Black Radicalism and the Archive

Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University

European Cultural Studies

April 20, 2021 · 4:30 pm · virtual

Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture – Auerbach, Homer, Sebald: Hypotactic Narrative and the End of the World

Daniel Mendelsohn, Bard College

Program in European Cultural Studies; Humanities Council

November 11, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · virtual

Can We Be Black in a Country Where Race Does Not Exist?

Rokhaya Diallo, Journalist –Writer–Filmmaker

Department of French and Italian; Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society

November 4, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · virtual

The Political is Personal: Rousseau’s Ethics of the Self

Jason Neidleman, University of La Verne

Department of French and Italian

November 2, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · virtual

Talking about Race in Nineteenth-Century France: Ethics and the Impact of Distance

Jennifer Yee, University of Oxford

Department of French and Italian; Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society

October 15, 2020 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · virtual

Suspect Citizenship: Race and Racism in Contemporary France

Jean Beaman, University of California, Santa Barbara

PIIRS Migration Lab; Center for Migration and Development; Program in European Cultural Studies

December 12, 2019 · 4:30 pm · 219 Aaron Burr Hall

The Archive of Psychoanalysis: The Temptation of the Plot in Freud’s Studies on Hysteria

Isabelle Alfandary, Institut du Monde Anglophone, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Program in European Cultural Studies; Comparative Literature; Philosophy; German; the Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities

May 1, 2019 · 4:30 pm · Betts Auditorium

Film Screening and Roundtable: Josephine Meckseper, PELLEA[S] (2017-18)

Josephine Meckseper, artist

Program in European Cultural Studies

April 30, 2019 · 4:30 pm · Betts Auditorium

Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture: Josephine Meckseper

Josephine Meckseper, artist

Program in European Cultural Studies

March 25, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Fugitive Mirror

Alexander Nagel, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and, Amelia Saul, Artist, New York

Program in European Cultural Studies

February 12, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Renaissance Florence and the Origins of Capitalism: From Burckhardt to the Digital Humanities

Francesca Trivellato, Institute for Advanced Study

ECS Faber Lecture

September 24, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Woolworth 102

Now Is Simply the Mess. Formalism, Modernism, Again

Seth Brodsky, University of Chicago

Department of Music. Co-Sponsored by the Program in European Cultural Studies and the Program in Media & Modernity

April 3, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 106 McCormick

CANCELLED – New Media and Modified Psychoanalytic Settings. Social Changes and Their Impact on Transference

Irene Berkel, University of Innsbruck

Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, Co-sponsored by the Program in European Cultural Studies and the Department of German

March 26, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 106 McCormick

Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus: the Duchesse de Berry, Simon Deutz, and Modern France’s First Antisemitic Affair

Maurice Samuels, Yale University

Program in European Cultural Studies and Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council

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