When is Fear Real? Foreclosed Narratives in U.S. Asylum Law
Valentina Ramia • Stanford University April 1st, 2024
Spring 2024
The Indexicality of the Real and the Political
Eleni Coundouriotis • University of Connecticut at Storrs March 25th, 2024
Doppelgänger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein • University of British Columbia In this talk, Naomi Klein recounts her confrontation with a doppelgänger whose views she found abhorrent, but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the … Read more
Legislating Gender
Paisley Currah • City University of New York March 4th, 2024
Facelessness: Two Scenes
Tyrone Palmer • Wesleyan University February 26th, 2024
Unreal States: Mapping the Imaginary After the USSR
Eliot Borenstein • New York University February 19th, 2024
The Invention of History in the African Novel
Lily Saint • Wesleyan University February 12th, 2024