Comparative Literature Department :: University at Buffalo

Fall 2009 COL "Just Theory" Guest Lecture Events
(all guest lecture events are free and open to the public)

Sponsored by
Department of Comparative Literature
Eugenio Donato Chair, Professor Rodolphe Gasché,
Julian Park Chair, Professor Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Samuel P. Capen Chair, Professor Jorge J. E. Gracia

Thursday September 10, 2009 5:00 PM 640 Clemens Hall	Idit Alphandary, University of Tel Aviv "Religion and the 'Rights of Men' in Julia Kristeva's Work"

Thursday September 17, 2009 5:00 PM 640 Clemens Hall	Rebecca Hill, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia "Difference as Relation and Difference as Becoming in Irigaray"

Thursday September 24, 2009 5:00 PM 640 Clemens Hall	Taylor Carman, Barnard College "Truth and Memory: Heidegger on Philosophy, History, and Religion"

Thursday October 15, 2009 5:00 PM 640 Clemens Hall	Carol Jacobs, Yale University "The Rough Circle Without Purpose: W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz"

Tuesday November 3, 2009 7:00 PM 640 Clemens Hall	Mirta Kupferminc, Artist - Buenos Aires "From Words to Images: A Jewish View on Borges" Sponsored jointly with the Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage

Thursday November 5, 2009 3:30 PM 640 Clemens Hall	Hagi Kenaan, University of Tel Aviv "The Face as a Liminal Image: after Deleuze, after Levinas"

Thursday November 5, 2009 5:00 PM Center for the Arts	Opening Reception to Art Exposition, UB Art Gallery, CFA "Carlos Estevez's Images of Thought" Curated by Jorge J. E. Gracia, University at Buffalo See PDF file for poster of event

Monday November 9, 2009 3:30 PM 306 Clemens Hall	Mireille Rosello, University of Amsterdam "Incomplete Multilingualism: European Encounters" Sponsored jointly with the Department of English: "Juxtapositions Series"

Thursday November 19, 2009 5:00 PM 640 Clemens Hall	Kathrin Thiele, University of Potsdam, Germany "Immanence and the Quest for Politics: The Badiou-Deleuze Debate"