School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University
June 17-July 26, 2007

The 2007 Faculty

Six-week seminars

Eric Cheyfitz
Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Cornell University
"What Is A Just Society? Native American Philosophies and the Limits of Capitalism's Imagination"

Marjorie Levinson
F. L. Huetwell Professor, Department of English, University of Michigan
"Spinoza's Enlightenment and Rethinking the Romantic Turn"

Bruce Robbins
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
"Transnational Culture: Theory and Practice"

Ann Laura Stoler
Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, New School for Social Research
"The Logos and Pathos of Empire: Durabilities of Matter and Mind"

Mini-seminars

Daniel Boyarin
Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Rhetoric and Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
"Powers of Dialogue: Plato, Thucydides and the Talmud"

William Connolly
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Political Science,
Johns Hopkins University
"Capitalism and Christianity"

Lisa Lowe
Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California,
San Diego
"The Intimacies of Four Continents"

Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago
"Religion and Political Equality"

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
"Ethical Implications of Gramsci's Educational Theory"