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David Shulman, Hebrew University in JerusalemCaught in the Cogs of Time (2): From Arabic to Tamil to Mimosas of Oliver Laxe November 8, 2018Probably 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... |
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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, 2018Probably 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... |
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Taylor Carman, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityNovember 6, 2018Taylor 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... |
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Tom Piazza, writerImprovising Identity: New Orleans and the American Dream April 4, 2018Tom 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... |
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Achille Mbembe, University of the WitwatersrandMichael Denning and Inderpal Grewal in conversation with Achille Mbembe March 29, 2018Mbembe 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... |
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Achille Mbembe, University of the WitwatersrandThe Idea of a Borderless World March 28, 2018Mbembe 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... |
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Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand"The New Global Mobility Regime" March 27, 2018Mbembe 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... |
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Bernard Geoghegan, Coventry University"The Difficulty of Gift-Giving: Cybernetics and Postwar French Thought" November 8, 2017A historian and theorist of digital media, Geoghegan is a senior lecturer in Media and Communications at Coventry University and a visiting associate professor in Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He also... |
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Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State UniversityFragility, Globalism, and the End of the World November 6, 2017Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She has written extensively on contemporary European philosophy, literary... |
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Alyson Shotz, ArtistOctober 11, 2017Alyson Shotz is one of the most innovative contemporary multi-media artists. Deeply inspired by science, she has the remarkable ability to translate abstract scientific and mathematical concepts into... |