Beginning in February 2009, PCPH is hosting an ambitious series of faculty workshops and public lectures by leading scholars on the subject of "Cosmopolitanism." How and when do we form social relations, loyalties, and meanings that are global in scope? What is the relationship of these cosmopolitanisms to traditional borders of nation, race, or religion? What do they mean for international community? domestic politics, war, religion, capitalism, or the mass media? The questions will be explored by a distinguished group of scholars from a wide range of disciplines.
Academic Year 2009-2010: Speakers slated to speak in this series for the next academic year are: Thomas Bender (Professor of History, New York University), Kenneth Reinhard, (Professor of English, UCLA), Srinivas Aravamudan (Professor of Literature, Duke University), and David Theo Goldberg (Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the UC Humanities Research Institute).
Fall:
On October 29th, Thomas Bender, Professor of History at New York University, will talk on the subject of “Cities, Nations, and the Possibilities of Cosmopolitanism.”
On November 19, Kenneth Reinhard, Professor English, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies, will be speaking on "The Cosmopolitan Neighborhood: Political Theological Models for an Open World."
Kenneth Reinhard, “The Cosmopolitan Neighborhood: Political Theological Models for Living in an Open World.”
Portland State University
Smith Memorial Center, Room 296
Kenneth Reinhard is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is an expert in early modern English literature, Shakespeare, psychoanalysis, Jewish studies, and critical theory. He is the author, with Slavoj Zizek and Eric Santner of The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (U. of Chicago Press, 2005), and with Julia Reinhard Lupton, of After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (Cornell UP, 1993), as well as articles on Freud, Lacan, Levinas, Henry James, Jewish Studies, and the Bible. He has edited a special issue of Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonialism on Religion with Julia Reinhard Lupton. Currently he is writing a book on the ethics of the neighbor in religion (Torah, Talmud, and Patristic writings), philosophy (Kant, Kierkegaard, Adorno, Rosenzweig, and Levinas), and psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan) for Princeton University Press.
English Reading Room (Room #407)
Neuberger Hall, PSU campus
The readings for our fourth workshop are:
- Badiou, “Algebra and Topology”
- Badiou, “The Inexistent”
- Badiou, "Philosophy and Politics"
- Badiou, "What is Love"
- Reinhard, Kenneth. "Toward a Political Theology of the Neighbor."