Other CTI Activities

The CTI hosts and co-sponsors a number of lectures in addition to its regular Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory and annual Wellek Library Lectures. The following consists of papers presented by international speakers, including our Research Fellows, and other one-time lectures.

Paul James (Globalism Institute for Studies in Transnationalism, Nationalism and Cultural Diversity, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)
"Theory in the Shadw of Global Terror: Mapping an Alternative Approach"
November 4, 2005 (Co-Sponsored by The Center for Global Peace & Conflict Studies, and the Department of Comparative Literature)

Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Media Studies, Ruhr University Bochum)
"Cutting Off Mediation: Agamben as Master Thinker"
March 2, 2004 (Co-Sponsored by the Department of English and the Humanities Center)

Donna Haraway (History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz)
“A Companion Species Manifesto”
January 15, 2003

Irina Kabanova (World Literature, Saratov State U, Russian Federation)
“Expropriation of Property as/in Soviet Fiction”
May 29, 2002

Sabine Gürtler (Kulturwissenschaften & philosophie, U. Lüneburg)
“Ethical Dimensions of Work & Property”
March 6, 2002

Gregg Lambert (English & Comparative Literature, Syracuse U)
“Gilles Deleuze: Philosophy and Non-Philosophy”
October 2, 2001 (Co-sponsored with English & Comparative Literature)

Rolf Heitmann (Comparative Literature, U. Aarhus)
“Hawthorne & History (& Allegory): Researching an Alternative Realism”
October 25, 2000 (Co-sponsored with English & Comparative Literature)

Ulla Haselstein (Institute for American Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians University)
“‘My Middle Writing Was Painting’: Gertrude Stein's Literary Portraits”
May 3, 2000 (Co-sponsored with English & Comparative Literature)

Wang Ning (English, Beijing Language & Culture University)
“Postmodernity, Postcoloniality and Globalization”
April 21, 1999 (Co-sponsored with Humanities Center, and East Asian Languages & Literatures)

Shen Dan (English, Beijing University)
“Difference Behind Similarity: Focalization in First-Person Narration and Third-Person Center of Conciousness”
May 5, 1999 (Co-sponsored with English & Comparative Literature, and Humanities Center)

Homi K. Bhabha (English, U. Chicago)
“Choosing Culture: With All Due Respect…”
April 30, 1998 (Co-sponsored with African-American studies, Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Literatures, English and Comparative Literature)

Catrin Gersdorf (Visiting Fulbright Fellow, American Studies, Leipzig U.)
“Biosphere 2: The Machine in the Desert”
December 6, 1996

Michael Hanne (Italian, Comparative Literature, U. Auckland, New Zealand)
“New Wine in Old Jars: A Theory of Narrative Adaptation”
January 23, 1997 (Co-sponsored with English and Comparative Literature and Asian-American Studies)

Frithjof Rodi (Philosophy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institute für Philosophie)
“‘Culture’: A Short History of the Term”
January 23, 1997

Wilfried Fluck (John F. Kennedy Institute, Free U, Berlin)
March 13, 1996

Wolfgang Bialas, (Max Planck Institute)
“The Response of East German Intellectuals to 1989”
March 15, 1995

Aleida Assmann (English, Konstanz U)
“Stabilizers of Memory: Affect, Symbol, Trauma”
March 22, 1995 (co-sponsored with Comparative Literature)

Vittoria Borsó (Romance Languages, U. Dusseldorf)
“The Ethics of Aesthetics: Literature as a Provocation for Sciences”
April 12, 1995

Giovanna Franci (English and Semiotics, U. Bologna)
“ Re-imaging the City in the Age of Multiculturalism”
April 12, 1995

Paula Rabinowitz (English and American Studies, U. Minnesota)
“Dispatches from the Seventeenth Degree: Gender, Writing, and the Vietnam War"
May 20, 1994 (Co-sponsored with Women’s Studies, Film Studies, Peace and Conflict studies.)

Emily Budick (English, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
“Mutual Constructions of African American -- Jewish American Literary Identity”
May 31, 1994

Fengzhen Wang (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
“The Political Unconscious: Confucianism Communists”
November 27, 1991

Maurizio Ferraris (U. Triest, Italy)
“Heideggerian Anatomy”
November 21, 1990

Teresa de Lauretis (History of Consciousness, UC, Santa Cruz)
“Upping the Anti”
January 25, 1991

Richard Klein (Comparative Literature, Cornell)
“Nuclear Criticism”
December 2, 1988

Peter Eisenman (Architect)
“Architecture and the Problem of the Weak Image”
April 22, 1989

Jessica Benjamin (Psychoanalyst)
“Sympathy for the Devil: Notes on Sexuality and Aggression”
May 3, 1989

J. Hillis Miller (English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine)
“Prosopopoeia, Materiality and the Ethics of Narrative: James’ ‘The Last of the Valerii’”
February 8, 1988

Colin MacCabe (Director of English Film Institute)
“The Revenge of the Author”
February 27, 1988

Giovanna Borradori
The Italian Difference on Recoding Metaphor”
April 15, 1988

Jacques Derrida (Philosophy, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
“Like the Sound of the Deep Sea Within a Shell: Paul de Man’s War”

Herbert Blau (English, U Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
“Postmodern Brecht and Cross-Eyed Representation”
May 6, 1988

Manfred Frank (U Tübingen)
“The Boundaries of Understanding: Lyotard and Habermas on Modernism”
May 7, 8, and 10, 1988.