[On September 26, 2012, the Unit for Criticism hosted "The United States as an Honest Broker in the Mideast?" a lecture by Rashid Khalidi, Nicholson Distinguished Visiting Scholar at UIUC and Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University.] Written by Chase Dimock (Comparative & World Literature) Considering...

Erick Nava'a self portrait at the opening reception. [UIUC's Education Justice Project, which provides educational programs at Danville Correctional Center, is hosting in collaboration with the University YMCA an exhibit, entitled Beyond Lines: Limited Expressions from the Men Within Danville Prison. This...

Dear Colleagues, So lovely to write to you on the subject of Fall 2012 on this beautiful autumn day in Champaign-Urbana. The Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory is off to a lively start this year with our first two events—a screening and conversation on...

[On September 10, 2012, the Unit for Criticism hosted "Action and Criticism in Gandhian Satyagraha," a lecture by Karuna Mantena of Yale University]The truth-force of an inter/actionWritten by Debleena Biswas (English)In her lecture on Gandhian satyagraha this Monday,...

[On August 27, 2012, The Unit for Criticism in collaboration with French, Gender & Women's Studies and History hosted "Lesbian Life in France," a screening and conversation with filmmaker Jacqueline Julien and Tamara Chaplin (History)]Lesbopolis: On Lesbian Activism in ToulouseWritten by Derek Attig (History)In 2009, the...

Leo Burnett’s 1968 ad for Virginia Slims[The twelfth in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men, was posted prior to the publication of...

[The eleventh in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men, posted prior to the publication of...

[The tenth in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men, was posted prior to the publication of...

[On April 26 and 27, 2012, the Unit for Criticism partnered with the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for a conference, Beyond Utopia? Art, Theory, and the Coming of “Spring.” The last of our three closing roundtable responses...

[The ninth in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men, was posted prior to the publication of...

[The eighth in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men, in anticipation of publishing MAD MEN,...

[The seventh in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men, posted prior to the publication of...

A sign from Occupy Oakland, taken from Zizek's essay in The Guardian[On April 26 and 27, 2012, the Unit for Criticism partnered with the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for a conference, Beyond Utopia? Art, Theory...

(L) Richard Helmer's forensic montage of Mengele onto Mengele's alleged skull. (R) Adam Harvey's demonstration of makeup and hair styles devised to fool facial detection software[On April 26...

Shown during Weizman's keynote: a “pyramid of Gaza”.[On April 26 and 27, 2012, the Unit for Criticism partnered with the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for a conference, Beyond Utopia? Art, Theory, and the Coming of “Spring.”...