Through the Koehn Lectures, funded in part by an endowment gift from Dr. Michael Koehn, UCI Critical Theory brings major scholars to campus.

Spring 2023 (June): Calvin Warren, "Incalculable Blackness: Mathematics and Existence"


Fall 2020 (December - Reinstated): Wendy Chun, “Authenticating Figures: Algorithms and the New Politics of Recognition”


Winter 2019 (CANCELLED): Wendy Chun, “Authenticating Figures: Algorithms and the New Politics of Recognition”

Fall 2018 (November): Silvia Federici, “The Legacy of Marx’s Work in 21st-Century Politics and Feminism”


Fall 2017 (November): James Clifford, "Carlo Scarpa.  Articulation Theory.  Indigeneity.  (Working With/In History)"


Spring 2016 (May): Eric Santner, "Rebranding Sovereignty in the Age of Trump"


Fall 2015 (October): Jacqueline Rose, “Feminism and the Abomination of Violence”


Winter 2015 (March): Judith Butler Koehn,  “Versions of Binationalism in Said and Buber”
 

Spring 2014 (May): Hortense Spillers, “Some Speculations on Sentiment:  Women and Revolutions”

Fall 2012 (October): Benedict Anderson Koehn Lecture, “Monarchies in the Age of Nationalism”


Fall 2011 (October): Gopal Balakrishnan, “The Convolution of Capitalism”


Spring 2010 (June): Slavoj �i�ek, “On the Public Use of Reason”


Spring 2009 (May): Catherine Malabou


Winter 2008 (February): Jacques Rancier, “The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking”


Winter 2007 (February:) Alain Badiou/ Etienne Balibar, "Dialogue on “Universalism”
 

Spring 2006 (May): Stanley Fish 
 

Winter 2005 (March): Kaja Silverman, “Thoughts for our Times on Death and War”