2020 Session | Seminars & Mini-Seminars

The Program

In an intensive six-week course of study, faculty members and graduate students from around the world, in the humanities and social sciences, explore recent developments in critical theory. The 2020 Session is scheduled for June 14 – July 23.

Participants work with the SCT’s core faculty of distinguished scholars and theorists in one of four six-week seminars. Each faculty member offers, in addition, a public lecture and a colloquium (based on an original paper) which are attended by the entire group.

The program also includes mini-seminars taught by scholars who visit for shorter periods. Finally, throughout the six weeks, distinguished theorists visit the SCT as lecturers.

The 2020 Faculty

Six-Week Seminars

Matthew Engelke – “Magic”
Caroline Levine – “Formalist Methods, Political Consequences”
Marina Rustow – “Epistemology of the Archive and the Practice of Archival History”
George Yancy – “Whiteness and the Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment”

Mini-Seminars

Karen Barad – “Infinity, Nothingness, and the Un/doing of Self”
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi – “Mystical Modernity: Reading Walter Benjamin Through Ali Shariati”
Béatrice Longuenesse – “Persons and the Unity of Mind”
Gary Tomlinson – “Humanists in the Future of Evolutionary Science”

Visiting Guest Lecturers

Anita Allen – “My Passage to India and Nepal: a Philosopher’s Journey”
Heather Love – “From the Outside Looking In”
Carolyn Rouse – “Revisiting the Case Against Reparation”
Haiping Yan – “Other Cosmopolitans, China and Beyond”