[On February 08, 2013 the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory hosted “Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture at 25: Theories for the New Millennium,” a symposium. Cary Nelson, co-editor of the original volume and founding director of the Unit, opened the symposium. His remarks are below.]Marxism NowIt should...

Cary Nelson opens the symposium[On February 8, 2013 the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory hosted its spring symposium on “Marxism and the Interpretation of Cultureat 25:Theories for the New Millennium." The below contribution is from graduate student Debleena Biswas.]Theorizing (Dis)Unities: Marxism and the...

Welcome everyone to this wonderful celebration of a book that emerged from our campus 25 years ago and which, in turn, derived from a groundbreaking conference on our campus 30 years ago. I am speaking of course of Marxism & the...

I’m pleased to join Lauren Goodlad in welcoming you all to today’s symposium. And I am especially grateful to our visiting speakers, whose urgent and stirring work many of us have been reading and discussing in recent weeks during two lively seminar sessions. It’s also a pleasure to be working again with Lauren and the...

[On January 28, 2013 Samantha Frost (Political Science/Gender & Women’s Studies) gave the Unit for Criticism’s annual faculty lecture titled, "Body, Cause, Politics: The Beginnings of Biology for Humanists.”Below is a response from Brandon Jones, a graduate...

Dear Colleagues,Happy New Year! It’s a busy time of year but I hope you can take a minute to read about the many good things going on at the Unit this spring. Yesterday I announced the application process for this year’s Criticism & Interpretive...

Panorama view of the Encounters installation.[On October 12, 2012 the Krannert Art Museum opened Encounters: The Arts of Africa, an installation curated by Allyson Purpura. The guest-written post below is by Laura Barone, a graduate student affiliate of the Unit for Criticism in Art History.] Written by Laura...

[On November 12, 2012 the Unit for Criticism hosted Tim Dean (Buffalo). His lecture "Stumped: The Pornography of Disability," is written about by guest writer and unit affiliate Claire Barber (English). This is the second of two posts on the Tim Dean lecture]Disabled Sexualities: Those Who Shouldn’t Have Sex and WhyClaire Barber (...

[On November 12, 2012, the Unit for Criticism hosted “Stumped: The Pornography of Disability,”a lecture by Tim Dean (University at Buffalo). His talk is described below by guest writer, Erin McKenna, a graduate student affiliate of the Unit for Criticism in Recreation, Sport and Tourism.] Dean addresses the audience in Levis Faculty...

[On November 8, 2012 the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities hosted “Rebel Cities,” a lecture by David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. His talk is reviewed below by guest writer, Katherine Skwarczek, a graduate student affiliate of the Unit for...

[On November 2, 2012, the Unit for Criticism in collaboration with IPRH hosted a seminar with Tricia Rose (Brown) devoted to discussing some of her groundbreaking scholarship on hip hop.] Kerry Wilson (Institute of Communications Research)The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory kicked off this year’s series of events on...

[On October 29, 2012 the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese hosted a colloquium with Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Washington University). His talk, "Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Reygadas and the End of National Cinema in Mexico," is discussed by Sarah M. West a graduate affiliate in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.]Sarah M. West (Spanish,...

"Ruin", section from "Too much world" ("Demasiado mundo") by Marina Núñez.[On October 19, 2012 the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese co-organized “Resentment’s Conflicts: A Symposium.” “Resentment and Political Reconciliation” was a...

[On October 15, 2012 the Unit for Criticism held the Fall 2012 Author’s Roundtable . The Unit hosted Samuel Moyn to discuss his book The...

The illustration to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan[On October 3, 2012 the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities held its third Annual IPRH Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities. Feisal Mohamed (English/CSAMES), who is also a retiring member of the Unit for Criticism’s Advisory Board, presented a lecture entitled “Republican...