#  Mahindra Humanities: Criticism and Theory in an Age of Populism: The 40th Anniversary Conference of the School of Criticism and Theory 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 29, 2016** 

 08:45AM - 04:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Thompson Room (110), Barker Center**  



 

 



 

**Criticism and Theory in an Age of Populism:**

**The 40th Anniversary Conference of the School of Criticism and Theory**

**Friday, April 29, 2016**

**Thompson Room (110), Barker Center**

Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

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8:45am

**Welcome**

 ****Homi Bhabha****

Harvard University

**Hent de Vries**

Johns Hopkins University

9:00am

**Peter Gordon**

Harvard University

***The Authoritarian Personality Revisited:***

***Reading Adorno in the Age of Trump***

10:00am

Discussion

10:30am

Coffee Break

11:00am

**John Brenkman**

City University of New York  
   
 ***Rage: Rhetorics of Affect and "Anger Banks"***

11:30am

**John Hamilton**

Harvard University  
   
 ***Populations, Multitudes, and the Limits of Plurality***

Noon

Discussion

12:30pm

Lunch Break

1:30pm

**Amanda Anderson**

Brown University  
   
 ***Literary Studies in the Age of Neuroscience***

2:00pm

**Stephen G. Nichols**

Johns Hopkins University

***Bernie Sanders at the Court of Charles V: How Political Theory Trumped Political Theology in 14th-century Paris***

2:30pm

Discussion

3:00pm

Coffee Break

3:30pm

**Bonnie Honig**

Brown University

***What Kind of Thing is Land? A Jewish and Postcolonial Reading of Hannah Arendt's Most "Greek" Text: The Human Condition***

4:00pm

**Stanley Fish**

Florida International University

***Antonin Scalia and Lancelot Andrewes:***

***Gun Control and the Logic of Textualism***

4:30pm

**Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht**

Stanford University  
   
 **Concluding Thoughts**



 

 



 

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