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Title:
Dominick LaCapra
When:
Tuesday, 04/13  2:00pm
Where:
Martin E. Segal Theatre -
Category:
The Trauma and Testimony Seminar

Description

"Fascism and the Sacred: Sites of Inquiry after (or along with) Trauma"
April 13th 2010, Tuesday, 2:00pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre

Dominick LaCapra is the Bryce & Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell University’s History Department. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and is a member of the graduate field of Romance Studies and the program in Jewish Studies. He served for ten years as director of Cornell’s Society for the Humanities and for four years as Associate Director and for eight years as director of the School of Criticism and Theory. He is the author of many books of critical theory, most recently History and its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence.

 

Suggested reading will be available by e-mail to registered seminar participants.

Venue

Location:
Martin E. Segal Theatre