Events

The Global in the Local: Historical Perspectives on Circulation [pdf]
Kapil Raj, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Thursday, March 4, 12-2 p.m.
Ripton Room, Scott Hall
Kapil Raj teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and is a member of the Centre Alexandre Koyré for the History of Science. He has published extensively on knowledge construction through processes of intercultural encounter and is currently working on a book on the urban and intellectual dynamics of Calcutta in the 18th century.

What Notion of Negativity is Compatible with a Theory of Social Antagonisms? [pdf]
Ernesto Laclau (University of Essex; visiting University Professor of the Humanities and Rhetorical Studies at Northwestern University)
Wednesday March 3, 5 p.m.
Annie May Swift Auditorium
Ernesto Laclau is a Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, and a visiting University Professor of the Humanities and Rhetorical Studies at Northwestern University. His work has focused on hegemony, social antagonism, political identities, and the intersection of the political and the rhetorical.

Charles Taylor and Craig Calhoun in Conversation [pdf]
Wednesday, February 24, 5-7 p.m.
Annie May Swift Hall Auditorium
Coming together to discuss the role of secularism within society, two eminent
Winner of the Kyoto Prize (2008) and Templeton Prize (2007), Charles Taylor (McGill) will give a paper titled “Varieties of Secularism.” Craig Calhoun (New York University) is the director for the Institute of Public Knowledge and the president of the Social Science Research Council, and will speak on “Rethinking Secularism.”

Globalizing American Studies
Brian Edwards, Dilip Gaonkar, and Kate Baldwin in discussion
Friday, January 22, 12-2 p.m.
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Seminar Room
Kresge 2-370
The American Cultures Colloquium and the Program in Rhetoric and Public Culture present a discussion of what globalizing means for the discipline of American Studies. Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Gaonkar discuss their forthcoming essay collection “Globalizing American Studies” from the University of Chicago Press. Kate Baldwin discusses her chapter in the collection.

Five Muslim American Poets [pdf]
Monday, October 26, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Kazim Ali, Ibtisam Barakat,Raza Ali Hasan,Fady Joudah, and Khaled Mattawa will read from their work and conclude with a symposium, "The Muslim American Poet as Self and Other."