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Petrou Lecture: W. J. T. Mitchell, "Seeing Madness"

Petrou Lecture: W. J. T. Mitchell, "Seeing Madness"

English | Center for Literary and Comparative Studies | College of Arts and Humanities Thursday, October 25, 2012 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Tawes Hall, Urlich Recital Hall

Petrou Critic in Residence: WJT MitchellThe Center for Literary and Cultural Studies and the Arts and Humanities Film and Theory Colloquiums will bring W.J.T. Mitchell to campus as our annual Petrou Lecturer on October 25 and 26, 2012.  On October 25 Mitchell will deliver his Petrou Lecture, “Seeing Madness.”  On October 26 he’ll direct a joint session of the Film Studies Seminar and the Theory Colloquium.  Both events are public and all are invited to attend.
 
W.J.T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and the editor of Critical Inquiry.  One of our foremost theorists of visual culture, he is the author and recipient of numerous works and awards, including his What Do Pictures Want?, which won the MLA’s 2006 James Russell Lowell in Language and Literature.  His more recent publications include Critical Terms in Media Studies (with Mark Hansen; Chicago, 2010), Cloning Terrorism: The War of Images, September 11 to Abu Ghraib (Chicago, 2011), and Seeing Through Race (Harvard, 2010):
 
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mitchell/cv.htm

 

Add to Calendar 10/25/12 4:00 PM 10/25/12 6:00 PM America/New_York Petrou Lecture: W. J. T. Mitchell, "Seeing Madness"

Petrou Critic in Residence: WJT MitchellThe Center for Literary and Cultural Studies and the Arts and Humanities Film and Theory Colloquiums will bring W.J.T. Mitchell to campus as our annual Petrou Lecturer on October 25 and 26, 2012.  On October 25 Mitchell will deliver his Petrou Lecture, “Seeing Madness.”  On October 26 he’ll direct a joint session of the Film Studies Seminar and the Theory Colloquium.  Both events are public and all are invited to attend.
 
W.J.T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and the editor of Critical Inquiry.  One of our foremost theorists of visual culture, he is the author and recipient of numerous works and awards, including his What Do Pictures Want?, which won the MLA’s 2006 James Russell Lowell in Language and Literature.  His more recent publications include Critical Terms in Media Studies (with Mark Hansen; Chicago, 2010), Cloning Terrorism: The War of Images, September 11 to Abu Ghraib (Chicago, 2011), and Seeing Through Race (Harvard, 2010):
 
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mitchell/cv.htm

 

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