What Is a Seminar?
A Unit seminar is a non-credit faculty/graduate student reading group. Attendance at all meetings is not required. Topics change each semester and grow out of the interests and recommendations of Unit-affiliated faculty and students. Most seminars lead to a symposium or conference enabling us to read the work of our speakers in advance of their visit to our campus. Recent topics have included: Technocultural Futurisms, Interrogating the Nonhuman Turn, Beyond Utopia? Freedom and Its Discontents, Bios, Mad World, and Feminist Futures.
Past Seminars
- Nicholson Distinguished Scholar Ananya Roy (UCLA), "Universalism and Its Others: The Limits of Critical Urban Theory" (Spring 2019)
- Nicholson Distinguished Scholar Audra Simpson (Columbia), "The Sovereignty of Critique" (Spring 2019)
- Ann Laura Stoler, "History as Renegade Politics" (Spring 2018)
- Transpacific Frames of War, Memory, and Representation(Fall 2017)
- Critical Inequalities (Spring 2014)
- Worlding Realisms (Spring 2014)
- Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture at 25: Theories for the New Millennium II (Fall 2013)
- Eighties in Theory & Practice (Spring 2013)
- Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture at 25: Theories for the New Millennium (Spring 2013)
- Beyond Utopia? (Spring 2012)
- Freedom and Its Discontents (Spring 2011)
- Bios: Life, Death, Politics (Spring 2010)
- Feminist Futures (Spring 2009)
- Subaltern Studies and Indigenous Critical Theory (Spring 2008)
- Affect Theory (Fall 2007)
- Where Are We? New Work in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies (Spring 2007)
- Re-thinking the State (Spring 2006)
- Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism (Spring 2005)
- Between the Secular and the Sacred (Fall 2005)
- Various Reading Groups (Summer 2005)
- Critical Foundations in an Anti-Foundational Age (Fall 2004)
- Modernities (Spring 2004)
- Modernities (Fall 2003)
- New Approaches to African-American Literature and Culture (Spring 2003)
- Historicism (Fall 2002)
- New Materialisms (Fall 2006)
- Postcolonial Studies (Spring 2002)
- Postcolonial Studies (Fall 2001)
- Recent Continental Political Theory (Spring 2001)
- Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics (Fall 2000)