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Special Events

2010-2011

Fall 2010
The East Asian Program’s Fall Speaker Series
“Opening or Closing the Frontier? New Developments in Governing China’s Contested Periphery”
Who: Professor Allen Carlson
When: November 11th, 4:30 pm
Where: Uris Hall, G-08
More Information: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/EastAsia/
The Cornell Political Theory Workshop
The People, Rhetoric and Affect: On the Political Force of Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk
Who: Melvin Rogers (University of Virginia)
When: October 22nd, 3:30-5:00 pm
Where: 201 A.D. White House
Edmund Burke, Ireland, and the Logic of Conservative Empire
Who: Daniel O’Neill (University of Florida)
When: November 5th, 3:30-5:00 pm
Where: Second Floor Library, A.D. White House
The Paradoxes of Popular Constitutionalism: Proposition 8 and Strauss v. Horton
Who: Anna Marie Smith (Cornell University)
When: November 19th, 3:30-5:00 pm
Where: Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
Messenger Lecture Series: Nancy Fraser, the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science, The New School for Social Research
Messenger Lecture Series
Lecture 1: “The Fictitious Commodity: Fount of Capitalist Crisis in the 21st Century”
When: Tuesday, November 2nd, 4:30 pm
Where: Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
Lecture 2: “The Market in Nature: Seeds and Offshoots of Capitalist Crisis”
When: Wednesday, November 3rd, 4:30 pm
Where: Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
Lecture 3: “The Wages of Care: Body and Soul of Capitalist Crisis”
When: Thursday, November 4th, 4:30 pm
Where: Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
Spring 2011
The Cornell Political Theory Workshop
Non-Sovereign Freedom
Who: Sharon Krause (Department of Political Science, Brown University)
When: February 18th, 2011, 3:30-5:00 pm
Where: 201 A.D. White House
Dissolving the Demos: A Genealogy of Postwar Democracy
Who: Kyong-Min Son (Department of Government, Cornell University)
When: March 11th, 2011, 3:30-5:00 pm
Where: 201 A.D. White House
“‘China in Our Heads’: Althusser, Maoism, and Structuralism”
Who: Camille Robcis (History, Cornell University)
When: Friday, April 29th, 2011, 3:30-5:00 pm
Where: 201 A.D. White House
New Conversations Series
Institute for Comparative Modernities
“Seeing Global: History in a Communist Mode”
Who: Susan Buck-Morss (the Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professor of Government)
When: April 21st, 2011, 4:45pm
Where: Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Travel, Translation, and Comparative Political Theory
Who: Roxanne Euben, Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
When: August 30th, 2011, 4:30pm
Where: HEC Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
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