Cultural Studies Program Colloquium Series

The CULTURAL STUDIES COLLOQUIUM at COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO is a series of colloquia featuring local, national, or international contemporary cultural studies scholars;  the CSC brings together students, faculty, and speakers to engage in debates in the field.  The CSC provides Cultural Studies majors with opportunities to learn more about current work in cultural studies, to help them become more familiar with contemporary cultural studies practitioners and even establish contacts with some of them.  The CSC creates ongoing intellectual dialogue within our community and offers students the chance to interact with a diverse group of noted Cultural Studies professionals.  Cultural Studies majors can also take the Colloquium as a credit bearing class up to six times during their studies.  Those enrolled complete pre-reading assignments before and analytical papers following each speaker.  Previous and future speakers in the series include Larry Grossberg (UNC Chapel Hill), Paul Smith (George Mason University), Emilio Sauri (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Pablo J. Boczkowski (Northwestern University).

All lectures are free and open to the public.

March 11 - 4:00 pm

Dr. Michael Naas
Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University

From the Secret of Abraham to Mass Miracles of Televangelism: Jacques Derrida's Religion of the Media

Michael Naas is a Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago.  His most recent publications include Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction (Standford University Press, 2003) and Derrida From Now On (Fordham University Press, 2008).  He is also the co-translator of several works by Jacques Derrida, including Learning to Live Finally (Melville Press, 2007) and Athens, Still Remains (Fordham University Press, 2010).  He is also co-editor of the Oxford Literary Review.

Pre-Reading Articles:
Jacques Derrida, "Above All No Journalists!" in Religion and Media, ed. Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), 56-93.