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Six-Week Seminars

Matthew Engelke

Professor of Religion and Director of the
Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, Columbia University

Seminar: Magic

 

Caroline Levine

David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities and Picket Family Chair of the English Department, Cornell University

Seminar: Formalist Methods, Political Consequences

 

Marina Rustow

Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Professor of History, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Director of the Geniza Lab and Director of the Near East Program, Princeton University

Seminar: Epistemology of the Archive and the Practice of Archival History

George Yancy

Professor of Philosophy, Emory University; Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College

Seminar: Whiteness and the Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment

Mini-Seminars

Karen Barad

Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Mini-Seminar: Infinity, Nothingness, and the Un/doing of Self

 

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

Professor of Near Eastern Studies and
Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gold Studies, Princeton University

Mini-Seminar: Mystical Modernity: Reading Walter Benjamin Through Ali Shariati

Béatrice Longuenesse

Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Philosophy, New York University

Mini-Seminar: Persons and the Unity of Mind

 

Gary Tomlinson

John Hay Whitney Professor of Music and Humanities and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University

Mini-Seminar: Humanists in the Future of Evolutionary Science

 

Visiting Guest Lecturers

Anita Allen

Vice Provost for Faculty and Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

Lecture: My Passage to India and Nepal: a Philosopher’s Journey

 

Heather Love

Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

Lecture: From the Outside Looking In

 

Carolyn Rouse

Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Princeton University

Lecture: Revisiting the Case Against Reparation

 

Haiping Yan

Professor of Cross-Cultural Studies and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Lecture: Other Cosmopolitans, China and Beyond