Each year, we have invited an internationally distinguished critical theorist to visit the campus to deliver a series of three lectures in which he or she develops his or her critical position and relates it to the contemporary theoretical scene. Each set of lectures is generally published in the Columbia university Press Wellek Library Lectures series.
For Wellek Library Lecturer Bibliographies and other Series information (1981-2009), click on this link.
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2024 Fred Moten — Professor of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University
"Notes on (Tones of) Violence" |
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2023
Rey Chow — Professor of Literature, Duke University
"Guests, Voices, and other Ephemera: Intimations from some Filmworks about Asia"
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2021 Mahmoud Mamdani — Professor of Government, Columbia University
"Studying Trans-African Slaveries: Pitfalls of the Atlantic Model"
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2019 Georges Didi-Huberman — École des hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
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2018
"Authoritarian Liberalism and Moral Nihilism: Neoliberalism's Accidental Legacies" |
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2017
Aijaz Ahmad— University of California, Irvine Chancellor's Professor
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2016
"Precarious Narratives: The Risky Behaviors of Print Books No Longer Able to Tell Coherent Stories" |
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2015
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2014
Timothy Morton — Rice University
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2013
Peter Sloterdijk
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2012
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2011
Donna Haraway — Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
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2010
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