The MA in Aesthetics & Politics Program

Fall 2010 Lecture Series

 TIMOTHY MORTON / Hyperobjects Fall 2010 Lecture Series
October 7th, Thursday. 7:30pm, Café A at CalArts
Timothy Morton is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of California,
Davis. His interests include ecotheory, philosophy, biology, physical sciences, literary theory,
food studies, sound and music, materialism, poetics, Romanticism, Buddhism, and the eight- California Institute of the Arts
eenth century. He has published nine books, the most recent of which are Ecology Without 24700 McBean Pkwy.
Nature and The Ecological Thought. Valencia, CA 91355
CATHERINE MALABOU / Plasticity: Looking For New Political Modes of Being
November 9th, Tuesday. 7:30pm, Ahmanson Auditorium
at MOCA Grand Avenue
Catherine Malabou teaches philosophy at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and is Visiting
Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Her work articu-
lates the notion of plasticity at the crossroads of philosophy and neuroscience. Her publications
in English include The Future of Hegel, Counterpath (with Jacques Derrida), What Should We Do
With Our Brain?, and Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing.
This event will be preceded by an afternoon conference on biology, technology, and the arts
(http://bioartcoursecluster.blogspot.com/p/events.html).
BONNIE HONIG / Antigone, Interrupted: Greek Tragedy & the Future of Humanism
December 2nd, Thursday. 7:30pm, Café A at CalArts
Bonnie Honig is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She is also Senior
Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and appointed (courtesy) at Northwestern
Law School. She is the author of Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics, Democracy
and the Foreigner, and Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy. Her current project is about
Sophocles’ Antigone.
The MA in Aesthetics & Politics program focuses on the multiplicity of ways in
which the aesthetic and the political intertwine. The program should be of particular
interest to artists seeking to deepen the theoretical and political aspects of their art,
and to BA/BFA/MFA graduates who plan to pursue a scholarly career. For more infor-
mation, see: aestheticsandpolitics.calarts.edu.

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