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

Date: 

Friday, April 29, 2016, 8:45am to 4:30pm

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.

Click here to view the program for this event.

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