ICLS Talks, Panels and Conferences

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

Ronald E. Purser and David Lewis | Buddhism and Neuroscience Conference Session 3

Dec 15th, 2016 51m 42s

Linda Heuman | Buddhism and Neuroscience Conference Session 1

Dec 15th, 2016 39m 36s

William S. Waldron | Buddhism and Neuroscience Conference Session 2

Dec 15th, 2016 37m 17s

Michel Bitbol | Buddhism and Neuroscience Conference Session 1

Dec 15th, 2016 47m 6s

David L. McMahan | Buddhism and Neuroscience Conference Session 2

Dec 15th, 2016 49m 14s

Marion Dapsance | Buddhism and Neuroscience Conference Session 3

Dec 15th, 2016 41m 52s

George Dreyfus | Buddhism and Neuroscience Conference Session 2

Dec 15th, 2016 39m 12s

Bernard Faure | Buddhism and Neuroscience Conference Session 1

Dec 15th, 2016 53m 39s

Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise – Panel 2

Dec 22nd, 2015 1h 55m

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: Jacq

Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise – Panel 1

Dec 22nd, 2015 2h 5m

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

Death of a Factoid: Freud, Theatricality, and the Primal Scene of Theory

Nov 4th, 2015 1h 27m

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

Psychoanalysis and Recognition

Dec 9th, 2014 1h 52m

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 develo

Is Health a Human Right? The European Perspective

Nov 18th, 2014 2h 5m

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

Is Evil Still a Meaningful Concept Today?

Nov 18th, 2014 1h 49m

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 Univers

Foucauldian Genealogies of Desire: Interest, Instinct and the Law

Nov 18th, 2014 1h 49m

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. Bey

Chris Hill | Bandung Humanisms Conference Part 5: The End

May 5th, 2014 1h 18m

Crossed Geographies: Endō and Fanon in LyonRespondent: 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. T

Duncan McEachern Yoon | Bandung Humanisms Conference Part 4

May 5th, 2014 1h 17m

Misreading Mao: Afro-Asian Cultural Exchanges and the Legacy of BandungRespondent: Lydia Liu (EALAC, ICLS)Bandung Humanisms is a collaboration between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia and the Seminar in Globa

Bojana Piškur | Bandung Humanisms Conference Part 3

May 5th, 2014 1h 27m

The Non-Aligned Movement and Cultural Politics in the Former YugoslaviaRespondent: Kostis Karpozilos (Blinken Institute)Bandung Humanisms is a collaboration between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia and the Se

Donna Jones | Bandung Humanisms Conference Part 2

May 5th, 2014 1h 19m

To Turn Our Backs to Europe: The Interwar Year Origins of Non-AlignmentRespondent: Souleymane Bachir Diagne (French, ICLS)Bandung Humanisms is a collaboration between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia and the

Stathis Gourgouris and Aamir Mufti | Bandung Humanisms Conference Part 1: Introduction

May 5th, 2014 14m 9s

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