Spring 2018
Theory Reading Group
An interdisciplinary forum for graduate students, faculty and researchers to discuss topics in contemporary theory and to criticallly engage with present-day debates. Subject matter ranges from metaphysics, political theory and aesthetics, to Marxist theory, architecture and psychoanalysis.
Meetings once a month on Wednesdays at 4:30 pm in 209 Scheide Caldwell House.
| February 14, 2018 | "Excommunication" + "The Unconscious and Repetition" |
Discussion with Prof. Katja Guenther (History of Science) |
| March 14, 2018 | "Of the Gaze as Objet petit a" |
Discussion with Prof. Nick Nesbitt (French and Italian) |
| April 9, 2018 | "The Transference and the Drive" | Discussion with Prof. Peter Brooks (Comparative Literature) |
| April 18, 2018 | "The Field of the Other and Back to the Transference" + “To conclude” | Discussion with Prof. Michael Klein (Music Studies, Temple University) |
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