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