Research Lectures and Conferences
2009/2010
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Pembroke Seminar Research Lecture "When Experiments Travel" 5:00 pm, Pembroke Hall, Room 305 |
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The outsourcing and offshoring of clinical trials have sparked an unprecedented global field of experimental activity. This lecture addresses the scientific and regulatory mechanisms by which a field of experimentality takes form. It charts a clinical trials industry and its move to low- and middle-income countries (particularly in eastern Europe and Brazil). This enterprise molds itself to international and national regulatory norms, but the recognition of adverse risks is often deferred or engineered out. The lecture explores policy gaps with respect to how benefits and liabilities of this enterprise are weighed as well as emergent practices of accountability. |
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PAST EVENTS
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Once considered an honorable condition reflecting persecution or resistance under the 1951 Geneva Convention, in recent decades the status of “refugee” has been discredited throughout the world. Particularly in Europe, immigration and asylum policies have been merged to better control the transnational movement of asylum seekers. Their words and narratives have been systematically devalorized, and evidence has been demanded of bodily and psychological traces of violence. Scars and trauma have become effective but fragile proof. Based on ethnographic research conducted in medical and psychological organizations helping asylum seekers and in the National Court for Asylum in France, this lecture will present and discuss this reconfiguration of regimes of truth. Co-sponsored by the Marshall Woods Lectureship and the Department of Anthropology |
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A colloquium on the occasion of the dedication of the Feminist Theory Papers
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
194 Meeting Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Read about the discussion on the Feminist Theory Papers blog.
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Alexander Galloway Department of Media, Culture, and Communication |
Dorothy Yin-Ye Ko Department of History
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Joan Wallach Scott School of Social Science |
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Marlene Manoff Humanities Library |
Hope Olson School of Information Studies
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Kelvin L. White School of Library and Information Studies
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Click here to see the program from the February 5th dedication of the Feminist Theory Papers.
Learn more about the Feminist Theory Papers
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Pembroke Seminar Research Lecture JEAN COMAROFF "NATIONS WITH/OUT BORDERS: Received models of society and politics have undergone drastic revision in the West. The image is fading of an organic society in which divisions of class and culture were contained within national boundaries; in which uncivil or criminal classes were believed, by means of welfare and moral reform, to be recoverable "citizens-in-waiting." On the rise is a different model of national territory as embattled homeland; of borders as elusive lines to be redrawn against the onslaught of enemies -- aliens, migrants, terrorists, home grown saboteurs, felons, the indigent poor -- who threaten the citadel state's moral and physical integrity.With special reference to new forms of politics and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa, this lecture explores why immigrant aliens have become the standardized nightmare of those seeking to "imagine community" under these conditions, and how nature comes to serve as the basis for conjuring new senses of belonging. Reception immediately following |
2008/2009
April 10, 2009
A colloquium in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of differences.
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Pembroke Seminar Research Lecture Reception immediately following Co-sponsored by the Marshall Woods Lectureship |
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Pembroke Seminar Research Lecture Co-sponsored by the Marshall Woods Lectureship, |
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Ursula Heise, Associate Professor of English at Stanford University, is also the Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature, a member of the Executive Committee of the Program in Science, Technology & Society, and of the Woods Institute for the Environment. She specializes in contemporary American and European literature and literary theory; her fields of interest are theories of modernization, postmodernization and globalization, ecology and ecocriticism, literature and science, narrative theory, science fiction, and media theory.
She has published articles on contemporary authors from the US, Latin America and Western Europe, and is the author of Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, Postmodernism (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Oxford University Press, 2008). She is currently working on a book entitled The Avantgarde and the Forms of Nature, about the role of biological form in works of the European, Latin American and North American avantgardes of the twentieth century.
2008 Pembroke Center Roundtable
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“Self Among Others: The Social Fabric of Subjectivity”
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James Hopkins –Philosophy, King’s College London
Lynne Layton –Psychiatry and Women’s Studies, Harvard
Ona Nierenberg –Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, Bellevue Hospital Center
Charles Shepherdson –English, SUNY-Albany
Robert D. Stolorow –Psychiatry, UCLA
Lyndsey Stonebridge –Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
The New York Times recently reported that psychology textbooks describe psychoanalysis as "dessicated and dead." Nevertheless, psychoanalytic theory continues to inform vigorously both large strands of clinical practice and the theoretical work of academic literary and cultural studies. Clinicians and academic scholars both find in psychoanalytic theory support for the fundamental claim that selfhood The roundtable will examine and discuss explicitly the contrasts and convergences between these theoretical paradigms, as they bear on the general question of the relation between the psychic and the social (particularly, between subjectivity and intersubjectivity), looking for example at what is invited and what is foreclosed in each discourse. Specific issues that might be addressed in this context include the role of Freudian notions of narcissism and melancholia in the formation of identity; the contrast between Freudian identification and relational (provision/deficit) models of subject formation; the formation and incitement of desire by relational or social configurations; conceptions of otherness and corresponding conceptions of intersubjectivity; theories of the formation, development, or constitution of subjectivity. The roundtable will bring together clinicians accomplished in psychoanalytic theory and academic theorists whose research has been informed by psychoanalytic ideas. |
April 30, 2008
Hannah Arendt Lecture Series
Lyndsey Jane Stonebridge
Professor of Literature and Critical Theory
University of East Anglia
"Judging in a Lawless World: Hannah Arendt and the Eichmann Trial"
5:00 pm, Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
Public reception will follow
Lyndsey Stonebridge’s research is on the inter-relations between literature, psychoanalysis and history. Her most recent publications, The Writing of Anxiety and Fiction after Modernism (edited with Marina MacKay), are concerned with the legacies of wartime in mid twentieth-century culture. She is currently working on a new book on writing about war crime trials (Law Writing: Fiction after Nuremberg). Lyndsey Stonebridge is also the one of the co-organisers of W.G. Sebald: In Memoriam, an Interdisciplinary Conference, to be held at University of East Anglia, September 5-7, 2008.
April 3, 2008
Pembroke Seminar Research Videoconference
John Forrester
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
"Women and the Reception of Psychoanalysis in Cambridge in the Early Twentieth Century"
CIT Room 269
115 Waterman Street
John Forrester is Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books and articles on psychoanalysis, including Truth Games: Lies, Money, and Psychoanalysis; Dispatches from the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions; and The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida.
March 7, 2008
Gender and the Politics of "Traditional" Muslim Practices
9:00 am - 6:30 pm
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
In cases where Muslim women and girls are seen as needing to be rescued and advocacy seems imperative—as with honor crimes, female circumcision, early marriage—structural analyses of issues apart from gender can fall away, thus producing little new knowledge and reinforcing stereotypes of Muslim backwardness versus Western modernity. The participants in this conference will look at alternative ways to view so-called “traditional” Muslim practices. They will look at instances where everything from local politics to transnational economics might contribute to a given practice, and where the political, the socio-economic, or the cultural might be the most important factors to consider.
Click here for additional information and a list of conference participants
December 4, 2007
Pembroke Seminar Research Lecture
Judith Guss Teicholz
"A Strange Convergence: Postmodern
Theory, Infant Research, & Psychoanalysis"
5:30 pm, Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
Public reception will follow
Judith Teicholz is a Supervising Analyst and Faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP), and on the adjunct faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is the author of Kohut, Loewald, and the Postmoderns (1999) and co-editor of Trauma, Repetition, and Affect Regulation (1998)
October 9, 2007
Pembroke Seminar Research Lecture
Arnold H. Modell
"Identity and the Selection of Value"
5:00 pm, Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
Public reception will follow
Arnold Modell is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of "The Private Self" (Harvard University Press), and "Imagination and the Meaningful Brain" (MIT Press)