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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series
Spring 2014
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures begin at 12:15pm
All lectures are held in the Common Room on the second floor of the Heyman Center, which is located in the East Campus Residential Center of Columbia University. Lectures are free and lunch is provided.
Spring 2014 Theme: Materiality
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February 20 |
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"How Forests Think"
Eduardo Kohn
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, McGill University |
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February 27 |
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"Decoding Roger Williams: Texts, Cryptography, and the Materiality of an Early American Mystery"
Linford Fisher
Assistant Professor of History, Brown University |
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March 6 |
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"Hybrid Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities"
Nancy Langston
Professor of Environmental History, Michigan Tech |
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March 13 |
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"When Materiality Intervenes: Towards a Trans-Disciplinary Epistemology of Disruption"
Bernhard Siegert
Gerd Bucerius Professor of History and Theory of Cultural Techniques, Bauhaus-University Weimar |
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March 14 |
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Note: this lecture takes place on Friday at 4:00pm
"Property without Appropriation"
Eric Nelson
Professor of Government, Harvard University |
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March 27 |
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"Time Diffractions, Virtuality, and Material Imaginings"
Karen Barad
Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz |
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April 3 |
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"Material Alliances"
Mel Y. Chen
Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley
Accessibility: In order to make this event accessible to people with chemical sensitivity or chemical injury, we ask that attendees refrain from bringing scents (i.e. fragrance, essential oil, smoke) on their clothing or their person into the room. For further information about how you can honor this request, please read this guide by Peggy Munson, on How to be Fragrance Free.
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April 10 |
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"Teleology and Necessity in Aristotle's Account of the Natural and Moral Imperfections of Women"
Mariska Leunissen
Associate Professor of Philosophy, UNC Chapel Hill |
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April 17 |
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"Victorian Anthropocene, 1834-1884"
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Assistant Professor of British History, University of Chicago |
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April 24 |
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Note: New Date "Women, Material Culture, and the History of Post-Roman Britain"
Robin Fleming
Professor of History, Boston College |
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