2004 -2005

CPLT Speakers Committee:

Mark C. Taylor, Professor, Religion, Williams College, offered a lecture entitled Theorizing Religion on March 24th and a seminar entitled Cashiering God on March 25, 2005 . He is the author of The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture and About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture.

CPLT Conference:

The Event of War: Intervention in the 20th and 21st Centuries, November 5 - 7, 2004, organized by the graduate students of Comparative Literature and Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Keynote lecture, Americans As Survivors: 9/11, the Iraq War & the Shadow of Vietnam, by Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, Lecturer of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He is the author of three books entitled Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, Nazi Doctors, and Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World.

CPLT Sponsored Events:

Gregg Lambert, Associate Professor, English, Syracuse University, offered a lecture entitled On the Conspiracy of the Earth: Political Geology and the Question of Empire, October 21, 2004, and a two-week seminar entitled Political Pragmatics: Deleuze-Guattari and the Politics of Expression, October 21 - 30, 2004.

David Rose, writer and investigative journalist, offered a lecture entitled Guantánamo: The War on Human Rights, November 22, 2004. His awards include the David Watt Memorial Prize and the One World award for human rights journalism. His work appears regularly in the Observer and Vanity Fair, and he is author of Guantánamo: The War on Human Rights. Among his other books are In the Name of the Law and A Climate of Fear.

Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière are members of the International Symposium for Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and professors at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris where they have given a weekly seminar for nearly 30 years on Madness and the Social Link. They graduated in classics and both hold Ph.D.'s in Sociology. They worked until 1998 as psychoanalysts in public mental hospitals and outpatient consultations. They now continue in private practice. Françoise Davoine has written two books: La Folie Wittgenstein (The Wittgenstein Madness), which is being translated into English, Greek, and Finnish, and Mère Folle (Crazy Mother), which has been translated into Spanish as Madre Loca. Together Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière have co-authored a book entitled History Beyond Trauma. They have presented lectures worldwide and have twice been Erik Erikson Scholars at The Austen Riggs Center. They offered a lecture entitled Peace Psychoanalysis, War Psychoanalysis, February 23, 2005, and seminars entitled Madness - Trauma: Same Struggle and Towards the genesis of a 'subject of historical truth' (Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 1939, SE., p.85), February 26, 2005.

CPLT Co-Sponsored Events:

Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois, offered a lecture entitled Obesity, the Jews, and Psychoanalysis: On the Creation and Perpetuation of Stereotypes of Physical Difference, September 13, 2004.
Co-sponsors: Center for Health, Culture and Society, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Psychoanalytic Studies Program, and German Studies.

Nicholas Royle, Professor, English, University of Sussex, offered a seminar entitled The Uncanny and lecture entitled Hotel Psychoanalysis: Some remarks on Sigmund Freud and Mark Twain, September 27, 2004.
Co-sponsors: Psychoanalytic Studies Program, Department of French and Italian, and English Department.

Peter Balakian, Distinguished Professor, Humanities, Colgate University, offered a lecture entitled The American Response to the Armenian Genocide, October 13, 2004, and a follow-up session entitled On Being a Public Scholar, October 14, 2004.
Co-sponsors: Hightower Fund, Department of English, Department of History, Russian and East Asian Languages, Institute for Jewish Studies, and Institute of Liberal Arts' Program in Culture, History and Theory.

Lynn Enterline, Professor, English, Vanderbilt University, offered a lecture entitled Imitate and Punish, October 26, 2004.
Co-sponsors: Department of English, Psychoanalytic Studies Program, and Department of Women's Studies.

Gareth Griffiths, Professor, English, University of Western Australia, offered a lecture entitled Sites of Purchase: Missions, Slavery and Tourism on Two Tanzanian Sites, November 18, 2004.
Co-sponsors: Hightower Fund, Asian Studies, Department of African Studies, Department of English, Institute of Comparative and International Studies, and Institute of Liberal Arts' Program in Culture, History and Theory.

Helen Epstein, author, offered a lecture entitled Writing on Genocide, November 3, 2004. She is the author of five books of literary nonfiction, including Children of the Holocaust and Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for her Mother's History. Those, and her biography Joe Papp: An American Life were New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
Co-sponsors: Hightower Fund and Insitute of Jewish Studies.

Joan Copjec, Professor, English, Comparative Literature and Media Study, and Director, Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, University of Buffalo, offered lectures entitled Shame and the Modesty System: The Case of Kiarostami and May 68: Shame, Anxiety, and Politics of Revolt on April 4 -5, 2005. She is the author of Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists and Imagine There's No Woman; Ethics and Sublimation.
Co-sponsors: Psychoanalytic Studies Program.