Black Box Speaker Series Presents Stefania Pandolfo
Department: Culture and Theory
Date and Time: May 19, 2021 | 2:30 PM-4:00 PMEvent Location: Zoom
Event Details
The Ph.D. Program in Culture and Theory presents the Black Box Speaker Series with our third installment featuring Dr. Stefania Pandolfo.
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https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mAKLYb_JQ52VSgbeZvZViQ
ABOUT THE SERIES:
THE SUMMER OF 2020 MARKED A WATERSHED MOVEMENT FOR STREET MOBILIZATION AGAINST POLICE, POLICE BRUTALITY, AND IN SUPPORT OF BLACK LIVES. IN ADDITION, WE FOUND OURSELVES CAUGHT BETWEEN THE PANDEMIC AND THE MURDERS OF BREONNA TAYLOR, AHMAUD ARBERV, GEORGE FLOYD, TONI MCDADE BY THE STATE AND ITS DEPUTIES, THE ERUPTION OF STREET ACTIONS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND THE INSURRECTION AT OUR NATION’S CAPITAL ON JANUARY 6. THE BLACK BOX SPEAKER SERIES AIM IS TO CRITICALLY ENGAGE THE RELATION BETWEEN INSURRECTION AND THE UNCONSCIOUS AND CONSIDERING THE PSYCHOPOLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF INSURRECTION.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
STEFANIA PANDOLFO IS PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UC BERKELEY, AND MEMBER OF THE PROGRAMS IN CRITICAL THEORY AND MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. HER WORK CENTERS ON SUBJECTIVITY, IMAGINATION, MEMORY, AND THE EXPERIENCE OF MADNESS, WITH A FOCUS ON THE MAGHREB AND THE MIDDLE EAST, AND IN CONVERSATION WITH PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ISLAMIC THOUGHT. SHE IS THE AUTHOR OF KNOT OF THE SOUL: MADNESS, PSYCHOANALYSIS, ISLAM (2018), AND IMPASSE OF THE ANGELS: SCENES FROM A MOROCCAN SPACE OF MEMORY (1997).
ABOUT THE FACULTY RESPONDENT:
REI TERADA IS PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND DIRECTOR OF CRITICAL THEORY AT UCI. SHE’S THE AUTHOR OF FEELING IN THEORY: EMOTION AFTER THE ‘DEATH OF THE SUBJECT’ AND LOOKING AWAY: PHENOMENALITY AND DISSATISFACTION, KANT TO ADORNO. HER RECENT WORK CAN BE FOUND IN RADICAL PHILOSOPHY, EUROPEAN ROMATIC REVIEW, DIACRITICS, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND ELSEWHERE.
ABOUT THE STUDENT RESPONDENT:
MEHRA GHARIBIAN IS A FIFTH YEAR PH.D. CANDIDATE IN CULTURE & THEORY. HIS DISSERTATION, LATENT ORIENTALISM, EXPLORES THE LIFE OF THE CONCEPT OF ORIENTALISM AS IT HAS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE ACADEMY, AS WELL AS THE BROADER IMPLICATIONS OF THIS PHENOMENON.