On Friday, October 3, the Humanities Council’s Gauss Seminars in Criticism will host “The Aesthetics of Singularity: A Gauss Seminar on Fredric Jameson.” The daylong seminar, which will be held in Betts Auditorium from 1 pm to 6 pm, gathers scholars and theorists to explore the significance of Jameson’s work today—and what it might mean for the future of critical thought.
Speakers include Princeton University faculty Andrew Cole (English) and Hal Foster (Art & Archaeology), as well as Alexander R. Galloway (New York University), Ranjana Khanna (Duke University), Lisa Lowe (Yale), and Neferti X. M. Tadiar (Barnard College).
“We’re excited to be hosting a stellar line-up of critics, theorists, and scholars for the first of this year’s Gauss Seminars, a day-long event on the work of Fredric Jameson (1934-2024),” said Brooke Holmes (Classics), director of the Gauss Seminars. “Coming together to reflect on Jameson’s profoundly influential analyses of the convergent forces of culture, history, and capitalism, we aim to open space for thinking collectively about critique’s future forms.”
This event is open to the public. The full seminar schedule is available on the Humanities Council website.
Instituted in 1949 in honor of Dean Christian Gauss, the Gauss Seminars in Criticism provide a forum for discussion, study, and the exchange of ideas in the humanities.
