Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities

PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICES SPEAKER: Katherine Everitt, European Graduate School The atom represents one of the oldest paradoxes in the history of thought. Can the material world be broken down into discreet, indivisible units, or can we divide the world...

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKER: Jeehyun Choi, Rutgers University Jeehyun Choi will discuss her research on the literary and political archive of Nak Chung Thun, a Californian immigrant farmworker who left behind a substantial but unpublished body of Korean-language...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Ludwig Pelzl, Visiting Fellow, Harvard University Calendar age is a foundational pillar of modern society—but how did it come to occupy this position? The talk will examine how social elites in eighteenth-century...

PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICES SPEAKER: Derek Hook, Duquesne University and University of Pretoria

PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICES SPEAKERS: Boštjan Nedoh, Research Associate at The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences & Arts, Institute of Philosophy (Ljubljana)

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Tita Chico, University of Maryland The long eighteenth century textual landscape is populated by wonders and by wondering: one encounters seemingly countless objects of wonder and just as many experiences of wonder...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Joseph Rezek, Boston University This talk examines the nominal emergence of the racial category “white” at the end of the seventeenth century through an analysis of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688). I argue that Behn...

PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICES SPEAKERS: Melanie Renaudin, Villanova University; Kat Matson, Boston College We would be happy to hear in advance from anyone working at the intersection of psychoanalysis and trans subjectivity who might present their work too...

DIALECTICAL THINKING IN THE HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Stephen Houlgate, Warwick University This talk argues that Hegel sees in the corporations a solution to the problem of systematic poverty in civil society. Hegel understands such poverty to be caused by the...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Horace Ballard, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Curator of American Art, Harvard Art Museums Horace D. Ballard (he/they) is the Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Curator of American Art. He investigates the art, ideas, and visual...