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Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University"All That Matters Is Invisible: How Latency Dominates Our Present" April 8, 2014Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature at Stanford University. He teaches Romance and Comparative Literatures. His lecture “All That Matters Is Invisible: How Latency Dominates Our... |
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Michael Kimmelman"The Politics of Public Space" April 2, 2014Michael Kimmelman is an American author, critic, New York Times columnist, and pianist and was the 2014 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center. In the lecture “The Politics of Public Space... |
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March 28, 2014 In this roundtable discussion with Yale faculty, moderated by Daniel Kevles, panelists and audience members discuss ideas from Bruno Latour’s two Tanner lectures, together titled “How Better to Register the Agency of... |
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Bruno Latour"How Better to Register the Agency of Things: Ontology" March 27, 2014Bruno Latour is Professor and Vice President for Research at Sciences Po in Paris. His lecture “How Better to Register the Agency of Things: Ontology” was given on March 27, 2014, as part of the Tanner Lectures on... |
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Bruno Latour"How Better to Register the Agency of Things: Semiotics" March 26, 2014Bruno Latour is Professor and Vice President for Research at Sciences Po in Paris. His lecture “How Better to Register the Agency of Things: Semiotics” was given on March 26, 2014, as part of the Tanner Lectures on... |
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Peter Dear, Cornell University"Darwin’s Sleepwalkers: Taxonomic Evidence in the Presentation of Darwin’s Species Theory" February 11, 2014Peter Dear is a professor of history and of science and technology studies at Cornell University. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Science Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, he is... |
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Cary Nelson, University of IllinoisThe Problem with Judith Butler: The Political Philosophy of the Movement to Boycott Israel February 10, 2014A talk in The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies |
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Kathleen Higgins"‘Thoughts That Come on Doves’ Feet’: Philosophy as Experience in the Work of Friedrich Nietzsche" November 7, 2013Kathleen Higgins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas Austin. Her lecture “‘Thoughts That Come on Doves’ Feet’: Philosophy as Experience in the Work of Friedrich Nietzsche” was given as part of the... |
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Dr. Ross Posnock"On the Pleasures of Self-Misunderstanding: ‘How One Becomes What One Is’ in Nietzsche and Emerson" October 3, 2013Dr. Ross Posnock is Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He delivers a lecture titled “On the Pleasures of Self-Misunderstanding: ‘How One Becomes What One Is’ in Nietzsche and Emerson... |
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Dr. David Mikics"Emerson, Nietzsche, and the Romantic World" September 26, 2013Dr. David Mikics is John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor in English and the Honors College at the University of Houston. His lecture “Emerson, Nietzsche, and the Romantic World” was given as part of the... |