2011-2012 Public Lectures
UIC Institute for the Humanities
September 16, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Halsted Street 1934: Film Commentary:
Josh Malitsky, University of Indiana
Jennifer Masengarb, Chicago Architecture Foundation
September 22, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Public Lecture: Susan Reverby, Wellesley College
"Escaping Melodramas: Thinking About the Way We Tell the Stories of the Syphilis Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala"
September 26, 2011 at 5 p.m.
First Annual Hejna Polish Studies Lecture
Timothy Snyder, Yale University
Poles and Stalinist Terror: Remembrance and Oblivion"
October 21, 2011 at 4:00 PM
THE STANLEY FISH LECTURE: Slavoj Zizek
Illinois Room- SCE Student Center East
"Freedom in the Clouds: What is Possible and What is Impossible Today"
October 26, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Public lecture: Richard Iton, Northwestern University
"Ghost, Text and Play: Living Within and Without Black Politics"
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 1:30 PM
Public lecture: Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES
February 6, 2012 at 3 PM
Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University
"A Nation Without Class: The 1970s and the Origins of Our Own Time"
February 28, 2012 at 3:00 PM
Public Lecture: Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
"The Beneficiary: Cosmopolitanism and Inequality"
March 5, 2012, at 3:30 PM
Jorge Coronado, Northwestern University
"On Portraits and Meaning: Studio Photography in the Southern Andes, 1910-1940"
March 13, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Public Lecture: Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research
"Theorizing the Crisis of Capitalism in the 21st Century"
April 3, 2012 from 3 - 5 p.m.
RICHARD H. WEISBERG, Floersheimer Prof. of Constitutional Law at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, currently Visiting Prof. of Law at Georgetown University
"In Defense of Flexiphobia: How a Touch of Faulknerian 'Intractablity' Might Help Avoid Historical and Hermeneutic Disasters"
April 5, 2012 from 3 - 5 p.m.
Carlos Forment,
Associate Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research
"Argentina's Recuperated Factory Movement, Neo Liberal Globalization and Citizenship: An Arendtian Perspective"
