Chief Clara Soaring Hawk, Deer Clan Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation gives the opening blessing at the symposium on "Global Justice for Indigenous Languages" at Columbia University on April 21, 2018. Introductions and welcoming remarks from Elsa Stamatapolou and Lydia H. Liu.

Second panel discussing Spinoza's Theological Political Treatises "Spinoza and the hydraulic discipline of affects: From the theologico-political to the economic regime of desire," led by Chiara Botticiand Miguel deBeistegui; Respondent: Jacques Lezra "Philonomianism: Spinoza and Arendt on Authority, Violence and History," led by Dimitris Vardoulakis; Respondent: Arthur Jacobson

First panel of writing workshop with opening remarks by Stathis Gourgouris "Spinoza's Politics of Error," led by Siarhel Biareishyk; Respondent: Raphael Kurt-Landau "Hobbes and Spinoza on Scriptural Interpretation, the Hebrew Republic and the Deconstruction of Sovereignty," led by James R. Martel; Respondent: Nicola Marcucci

The Psychoanalytic Studies Program at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society presents: Death of a Factoid: Freud, Theatricality, and the Primal Scene of Theory

In an informal discussion, professors Honneth and Whitebook will return to their earlier “debate” on psychoanalysis and recognition (Psyche, 2001), revisit the questions they addressed there, and attempt to clarify how their thinking has developed in the interim

After a short introduction where Mr. Panayotis Yatagantzidis will present some tentative definitions of the concept of human rights as delineated in different schools of thought, he will move towards a constitutional cartography of the right to health in nations-members of the European Union. From within that perspective he will examine the international protection provided by the Treaty of the EU and the European Declaration of Human Rights and he will analyze the existing international...

Taking his point of departure in Foucault’s work from the mid to late 1970s, Professor de Beistegui will argue that the lecture courses and books from that period lay the ground for a genealogy of the western subject as a subject of desire. Beyond Foucault’s own genealogy, he’ll ask about the connections and tensions between the rationalities of the sexual instinct and economic interest , and suggest that they require a third rationality, and a third sense of desire, which involves the Law...

Simona Forti will discuss issues that arise from her new book The New Demons. Rethinking Evil and Power Today (Stanford University Press, 2014). She will be in conversation with Adriana Cavarero, Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli studi di Verona and Miguel de Beistegui, Professor of Philosophy at University of Warwick.

Crossed Geographies: Endō and Fanon in Lyon Respondent: Aamir Mufti (UCLA) Bandung Humanisms is a collaboration between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia and the Seminar in Global Critical Humanities at UCLA. This is the inaugural workshop for a longterm collective project, whose events —public conferences, workshops, joint publications, pedagogical innovations -- will take place not just at our institutions but in various sites outside the Euro-American sphere.

Misreading Mao: Afro-Asian Cultural Exchanges and the Legacy of Bandung Respondent: Lydia Liu (EALAC, ICLS) Bandung Humanisms is a collaboration between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia and the Seminar in Global Critical Humanities at UCLA. This is the inaugural workshop for a longterm collective project, whose events —public conferences, workshops, joint publications, pedagogical innovations -- will take place not just at our institutions but in various...

The Non-Aligned Movement and Cultural Politics in the Former Yugoslavia Respondent: Kostis Karpozilos (Blinken Institute) Bandung Humanisms is a collaboration between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia and the Seminar in Global Critical Humanities at UCLA. This is the inaugural workshop for a longterm collective project, whose events —public conferences, workshops, joint publications, pedagogical innovations -- will take place not just at our institutions but...

To Turn Our Backs to Europe: The Interwar Year Origins of Non-Alignment Respondent: Souleymane Bachir Diagne (French, ICLS) Bandung Humanisms is a collaboration between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia and the Seminar in Global Critical Humanities at UCLA. This is the inaugural workshop for a longterm collective project, whose events —public conferences, workshops, joint publications, pedagogical innovations -- will take place not just at our institutions...

Bandung Humanisms is a collaboration between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia and the Seminar in Global Critical Humanities at UCLA. This is the inaugural workshop for a longterm collective project, whose events —public conferences, workshops, joint publications, pedagogical innovations -- will take place not just at our institutions but in various sites outside the Euro-American sphere.