MODERNITY, MEDIA, AND AESTHETICS

EVENTS

Berlant's America: A Symposium on the Legacies of Lauren Berlant

October 26 & 27, 2023
9:30am – 5:00pm CST

Featuring:
Kris Cohen (Art History and Humanities, Reed College)
Lee Edelman (English, Tufts University)
Jonathan Flatley (English, Wayne State University)
Michael Hardt (Literature, Duke University)
Lauren Jackson (English, Northwestern University)
E. Patrick Johnson (Black Studies & Performance Studies, Northwestern University)
Benjamin Lee (Anthropology and Philosophy, New School)
Heather Love (English, University of Pennsylvania)
Sianne Ngai (English, University of Chicago)
Jonathan Schroeder (American Studies, Brandeis University)
Kathleen Stewart (Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin)
Michael Warner (English, Yale University)
Ken Wissoker (Editor, Duke University Press)

Organizers:
Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric, Media & Publics, Northwestern University)
Laurie Shannon (English, Northwestern University)

Co-sponsors:
The Center for Global Culture and Communication, an interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University's School of Communication, Department of English, Northwestern University

Resonance: A Workshop with Hartmut Rosa

November 11, 2019

Harris Hall, Room 108

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar.

Participants:

  • Amanda Anderson

  • Craig Calhoun

  • Dipesh Chakrabarty

  • Dilip Gaonkar

  • Benjamin Lee

  • Hartmut Rosa

  • Michael Steinberg

  • Charles Taylor.

Co-sponsors:
The Northwestern Program for Critical Theory, The Center for Transcultural Studies, and Northwestern University’s Department of Sociology.

Volatility: Scale and Effect

October 25-26, 2018

Kresge Hall, 2-350, Northwestern University

Co-organizers: Dilip Gaonkar and Benjamin Lee


Participants:

Lauren Berlant

Dilip Gaonkar

Benjamin Lee

Erin Manning

Brian Massumi

Robert Meister

Sianne Ngai

Co-sponsors:
The Center for Global Culture and Communication, an interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University's School of Communication, the Center for Transcultural Studies, and the Rhetoric and Public Culture program in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.