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	Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Affect, Witnessing, Repair February 12, 2019 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...
	Paul Frosh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem “The Saturation of Media” February 4, 2019 Paul Frosh is a professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research spans visual culture, media aesthetics, consumer culture, media witnessing, and cultural...
	Steven Crowell, Rice University Methodological Atheism: An Essay in Second-Person Phenomenology December 4, 2018 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...
	Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh A Spirit of Trust: Magnanimity and Agency in Hegel’s Phenomenology November 27, 2018 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:...
	Robert Pippin, University of Chicago Radical Finitude in the Anti-Idealist Modern European Philosophical Tradition November 13, 2018 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. He is the author of Kant’s...
	David Shulman, Hebrew University in Jerusalem Caught in the Cogs of Time (2): From Arabic to Tamil to Mimosas of Oliver Laxe November 8, 2018 Probably the spookiest story in the Arabian Nights, the “City of Copper” (madīnat al-nuḥās) tells of a caravan lost in the desert and its serendipitous discovery of a forgotten city of the dead. The...
	David Shulman, Hebrew University in Jerusalem “Caught in the Cogs of Time (1): ‘The City of Copper’ from the Thousand and One Nights” November 7, 2018 Probably the spookiest story in the Arabian Nights, the “City of Copper” (madīnat al-nuḥās) tells of a caravan lost in the desert and its serendipitous discovery of a forgotten city of the dead. The...
	Taylor Carman, Barnard College, Columbia University Narrative and Pictorial Truth November 6, 2018 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...
	Tom Piazza, writer Improvising Identity: New Orleans and the American Dream April 4, 2018 Tom Piazza is a celebrated writer on American music. His twelve books include the novels A Free State and City of Refuge, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, and Devil...
	Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand Michael Denning and Inderpal Grewal in conversation with Achille Mbembe March 29, 2018 Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a PhD in history from the...