All lectures will be held on Wednesdays, 12:15-1:30pm, Room 600 William & June Warren Hall (Amsterdam, between 115 & 116 St) Columbia Law School. Light lunch will be served.
Commentator: Sandhya Shukla, Professor at Columbia University, Department of Anthropology and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Wednesday, March 30 James Der Derian, Professor (Research) of International Studies, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University and Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Political Science THE PRISON HOUSE OF LANGUAGE: SEMIOPOLITICS V. BIOPOLITICS IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM
Commentator: Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studeis, Director of the Middle East Institute, Columbia University
Wednesday, April 6 Gina Dent, Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Women's Studies, History Consciousness and Legal Studies ON LAUGHTER: PRISONS, POPULAR CULTURE, INTERSUBJECTIVITY
Commentator: Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law, Center for the Study of Law & Culture. Columbia University
Wednesday, April 13 Simon Cole, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, School of Social Ecology, Department of Criminology THE TERRORIST WITHIN US: THE CASE OF BRANDON MAYFIELD
Commentator: Elizabeth Povinelli, Professor at Columbia University, Department of Anthropology and Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Center for the Study of Law & Culture
Wednesday, April 20 Joseph Masco, Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE: THEORIZING STATE SECURITY
Commentator: Bruce Robbins, Professor at Columbia University, Department of English & Comparative Literature and Center for Comparative Literature and Society
