by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
At the 2011 MLA, Sidonie Smith invited Marianne Hirsch, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy Miller, Robert Warrior and me to speak at her Presidential Forum on Narrating Lives. The essays were published in Profession. My essay, “Embedded Lives,” tells how a... by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
In 2010 Ramon Saldivar and I joined Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in a discussion of her lecture of this title. Ramon spoke about how hemispheric and trans-national studies gave a particular texture to “globalization” and cultural artifacts; I spoke on how... by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
This event was the brainchild of Nirvana Tanoukhi, who was at the time a PhD student in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford. She invited a remarkable group of scholars. The resulting essays are published in Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World:... by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | All Blog Posts
Using Catherine Malabou’s incisive critique of neuroscientific discourse as a call to the radical imagination, and Grace Lee Boggs’s inspirational evocation of “philosophical activism.” by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | All Blog Posts
On attending the Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture at Oxford, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his classic, The Long Revolution, and participating in the general strike there protesting cuts to education and health. Reflecting on the...