Border Experiences between Political Biopower and the Forces of Subjectivity
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Date and Time: May 2, 2011 | 12:00 PM-2:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Instructional Building (HIB) 135
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THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF HUMANITIES &
THE DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
AT UC IRVINE
ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A LECTURE
TO HONOR PROFESSOR JUAN BRUCE-NOVOA
PRESENTED BY VITTORIA BORSÒ, PROFESSOR,
HEINRICH-HEINE UNIVERSITÄT,
DUESSELDORF, GERMANY
Prof. Dr. Vittoria Borsò is Professor of Romance Literatures (French, Spanish, Latin
American- and Italian Literature) at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf.
Research Fellow, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, at Rice University,
Houston, and the University of Texas at Austin (1985-1986). Since 2007, she is
member of the Board of Trustees at Heinrich Heine University. Director of the
graduate program "Interculturality and Communication", in cooperation with the
University of Trieste; and of the graduate program "European Cultural Studies",
with the University of Palermo, Italy. She is also a member of the UC Research
Group on Cultural and Mexican Studies. Last publications: das andere denken,
schreiben, sehen (The other thinking, writing, seeing), with an introduction by
Bernhard Waldenfeld (Bielefeld: transcript, 2008); Benjamin - Agamben. Politics,
Messianism, Kabbalah (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010), with Claas
Morgenroth / Karl Solibakke / Bernd Witte. Her main fields of research: Modernity,
Aesthetics, Media Theory and Visual Culture