Fall 2001 Juliet Flower MacCannell
"Woman's Way Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Sophie Calle" 
October 23, 2001
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Richard Doyle
"LSDNA: Consciousness Expansion and the Emergence of Biotechnology in America" 
October 29, 2001
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Julie Klein
"Spinoza and Us: On Material Rationality and Intellectual Desire" 
November 6, 2001
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Richard Shusterman
"Art as Dramatization" 
November 29, 2001
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Eduardo Cadava
"Music on Bones: Salvatore Puglia & the Ruins of History" 
December 6, 2001
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Spring 2002Joseph Masheck
"Loos and Fine Art: Scandalous Beauty from the Anti-Artist of Architecture" 
January 24, 2002
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Arkady Plotnitsky
"Algebras, Geometries, and Topologies of Philosophy: On Deleuze, Derrida, and Mathematical Knowledge" 
February 14, 2002
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Catherine Liu
"To Catch a Falling Star: Lacan Meets Warhol" 
Febraruy 21, 2002
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Vladislav Todorov
"Of Personation: Imposture and Authenticity Effect" 
April 2, 2002

Christine Marran
Lecture Title: "Empire, Japan, and Masochistic Desire" 
Date: April 11, 2002
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Fall 2000Slavoj Žižek
"A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism"
September 18. 2000
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Dorothea Olkowski
"Matter in Motion, The Cinema Image, Feminism and Architecture"
October 9, 2000
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Louis-George Schwartz
"The Corpse Inaction: On the Action Movie and a Genealogy of Recent Writing on Cinema's Bodies" 
October 16, 2000
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Edward R. O'Neill
"Can the Time-Image Be Postmodern? Deleuze, Titanic and The Matrix"
December 7, 2000
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Spring 2001Judith Feher-Gurewich
"Masculine Mystique, Feminine Mistake"
January 28, 2001

Zachary Braiterman
"Martin Buber and Wassily Kandinsky: The Content of Revelation and the Spiritual Logic of Abstract Expression" 
February 6, 2001
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Tracey McNulty
"Hospitality after the Death of God: Pierre Klossowski's 'Les lois de l'hospitalité'" 
February 15, 2001
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John Caputo
"For the Love of the Things Themselves: Derrida's Hyper-Realism" 
February 27, 2001
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Matthew Biro
"Raoul Hausmann's Revolutionary Media: Dada Performance, Photomontage, and the Development of the Cyborg in Germany"
March 6, 2001
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Stephen David Ross
"Betraying the Earth as Aesthetic Phenomenon: Images of Myself; Blanchot and Freud" 
April 6, 2001
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Charles Long
"The Secret of the Cargo: Problematics For A Study of W.E.B. DuBois' 'The Souls of Black Folk'"
April 13, 2001
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Fall 1999 Peter Canning
"Cosmological Immanence, Creation of Possibility" 
December 1, 1999
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Spring 2000 Gregg Lambert
"John Guillory and that Obscure Object of English Desire" 
January 26, 2000
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Charlie Winquist
"Postmodern Secular Theology" 
February 16, 2000
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Dennis Schmidt
Title: "On Words and Images: Some reflections on Twombly, Homer and
Nietzsche, or 'Like a fire that consumes all before it....'" 
Date: March 8, 2000 
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Jim English
"From Gift to Game: Prizes in Contemporary Culture" 
April 20, 2000
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Fall 1998 Jean-Michel Rabaté
Title: "Kant, Lacan, Sade" 
December 1, 1998
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Susan Stewart
"Proust's Turn Against Nostalgia" 
December 8, 1998
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Spring 1999 Judith Feher-Gurewich
"Is the Prohibition of Incest a Law? (The Jouissance of the Other)" 
January 19, 1999
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Anson Rabinbach
"Mimesis and Antisemitism: Horkheimer & Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, or: Why Were The Jews Sacrificed?" 
March 3, 1999
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Paola Meli
Title: "On Trauma" 
Date: May 3, 1999
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Fall 1996 "Theorizing in Particular: Approaches to Cultural Interpretation" was an interdiscplinary lecture series organized to highlight various methods of cultural interpretation. It was the forerunner to the current Theorizing series.

Dr. Warren Breckman (History, Penn)
"Feuerbach, Marx and the Imagination of Philosophy"
October 23, 1996

Dr. Curtis Bowman (Philosophy, Penn)
"Odysseus and the Siren Call of Reason: The Frankfurt School Critique of Enlightenment"
October 30, 1996

Dr. Jean-Michel Rabate (English, Penn)
"Joyce's Lice of Life"
November 13, 1996

Dr. Peter Stallybrass (English, Penn)
"Marx's Coat"
November 20, 1996

Dr. Steven Levine (History of Art, Bryn Mawr College)
"Lacan's Cezanne"
December 4, 1996

Spring 1997 "Theorizing in Particular: Approaches to Cultural Interpretation" was an interdiscplinary lecture series organized to highlight various methods of cultural interpretation. It was the forerunner to the current Theorizing series.

Rita Barnard, Penn English

Thierry de Duve

Margareta DeGrazia, Penn English

Jim English, Grad. Chair, Penn English

Andreas Huyssen, Chair, Columbia German

Craig Saper, Penn English

Bob Schultz, novelist

Liliane Weissberg, Chair, Penn CompLit