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Since the late 1990s, the port city of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic has anchored a host of public and private efforts to remake the city center into a cultural heritage site. While the city’s large-scale restoration promotes an idealized image of its Victorian architectural past, the materiality of space has become a vehicle for affective […]

Rarely have René Char’s life and work been looked at from the standpoint of “mobility.” Combining approaches from the humanities and the social sciences, this lecture will argue that this polysemic notion can help pry open and intertwine several key dimensions of the poet’s biography, production, and legacy. Across space and time, across linguistic boundaries […]

Our modern concept of national security has roots in ancient Rome. First attested in Cicero’s philosophical works, the Latin word securitas originally meant peace of mind in a strictly psychological sense. A century later, the phrase “the securitas of the Roman Empire” began to circulate, as if an empire could have peace of mind. By […]

Rosalind Morris’ work is addressed to the histories and social lives—including the deaths and afterlives—produced in the interstices of industrial and resource-based capitalism in the Global South. Those interests extend to the technological and media forms that attend or undergird these economies, and the forms of subjectivity produced in their midst. They also encompass the […]

This presentation is drawn from Nadal-Melsió’s forthcoming book, Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Concept. The book recuperates the Baroque musical concept of the “wolf”—the dissonant note that tuning systems of the time were intent on eliminating to guarantee the harmony of the whole. The first mention of the “wolf” as an emblem of […]

A Conversation On Actors’ Training at the Paris Conservatory In French Moderated by Florent Masse, Director of L’Avant-Scène, Department of French and Italian