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[On January 18th, the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory hosted the lecture “'Interior Frontiers:' As Political Concept, Diagnostic, and Dispositif'” by Nicholson Distinguished Visiting Scholar Ann Laura Stoler (New School). Below is a response to the lecture from Mark E. Frank (East Asian Languages and Cultures).] Thinking with StolerWritten by Mark E. Frank (...

[On November 28, the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory hosted the lecture “The Future of Queer Theory / The Usure of Modernist Form” as part of the Fall 2017 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. The speaker was Andrew Leong (Northwestern U). Below is a response to the lecture from Diana Sacilowski (Slavic Literatures & Languages)] The Past Futures of Queer Theory...

[On November 9th, 2017, the CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series hosted the lecture "Potential History of the Archive: The Micro Study of a Macro Institution," given by Ariella Azoulay (Brown University). Below is a response to the lecture from Laura Elizabeth Shea, PhD Candidate in Art History.] Ariella Azoulay: Potential History of the...

[On October 17, the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory hosted the lecture “Precarious Futures, Precarious Pasts: Climate, Terror and Planetarity” as part of the Fall 2017 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. The speaker was Gaurav Desai (University of Michigan). Below is a response to the lecture from Brandon Jones (English)] Toward Reparative Justice: Climate-Induced...