Franke Lectures in the Humanities

Susan Douglas, University of Michigan

Monday, September 23, 2019 | 5:00 pm

From Jazz to Rock’n’Roll: Radio as a Turnstile between White and African-American Cultures

Narrative and Pictorial Truth

Taylor Carman is Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Heidegger’s Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse, and Authenticity in Being and Time and Merleau-Ponty and coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty. He has written on topics in phenomenology, existentialism, and contemporary European and analytical philosophy and is currently writing a book on the history and critique of metaphysics in Heidegger’s later works.

Radical Finitude in the Anti-Idealist Modern European Philosophical Tradition

Robert Pippin is Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago.

A Spirit of Trust: Magnanimity and Agency in Hegel’s Phenomenology

Robert Brandom is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of thirteen books, including Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment. His most recent book, A Spirit of Trust, on Hegel’s Phenomenology, is forthcoming.

Methodological Atheism: An Essay in Second-Person Phenomenology

Steven Crowell is Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, where he has taught since receiving his PhD in philosophy from Yale in 1981. Crowell’s research focuses on Continental philosophy since Kant, with an emphasis on the classical phenomenological tradition. He is the author of Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Transcendental Phenomenology and Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger.

Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Affect, Witnessing, Repair

Deborah Thomas is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica and Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica, and coeditor of the volume Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness. Her new book, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, is forthcoming.

Modernity in the Home: A Reflection on 20th Century India

Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Emory University. A founding member and leading theorist of the Subaltern Studies project, he has written extensively on colonial and postcolonial South Asia, nationalism and minorities, civil rights and democracy, and the history of history-writing.

Social Abstraction, Historical Comparison: Thinking Caste, Race, and Gender in the Time Capital

Anupama Rao is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College, Senior Editor of Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and Acting Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. She has written widely on colonialism and humanitarianism, and on non-Western histories of gender and sexuality. Her book The Caste Question theorized caste subalternity, with specific focus on the role of anti-caste thought (and its thinkers) in producing alternative genealogies of political subject-formation.