Annual CLST Distinguished Lectures: Nicholas Brown and Prabhat Patnaik

April 19, 2018 - 12:00pm to 7:00pm

Graduate students and faculty are invited to this year's CLST Annual Distinguished Lectures featuring two internationally renowned scholars on cultural production and uneven development, the theme of the 2018 Common Seminar and Graduate Student Colloquium.  Please plan to attend both events in the Humanities Center at noon and 5:30PM and, in that room's alcove, the event reception at 5PM.

 

Noon-1:30 PM, 602-CL

Nicholas Brown

Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago

Art  and Politics between Rio and New York: The Case of Hélio Oiticia

Professor Brown’s first monograph, Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature (Princeton UP 2005), examines the relationship between postcolonial literature and European modernism, and the relationship of each to continuing crises in the global economic system. His current book, Autonomy: The Work of Art in the Age of its Real Subsumption under Capital, asserts the resumption of the modernist sequence — not always in the expected places — in the era after postmodernism. Chapters of Autonomy have appeared in nonsite, Postmodern Culture, and the Revista do Instituto dos Estudos Brasileiros. President of the Marxist Literary Group, Professor Brown also chairs the editorial board of the journal Mediations and is a founding editor of the electronic/print press MCMʹ.

5:00-5:30 Event Reception 6th Floor Alcove

5:30-7:00 PM, 602-CL

Prabhat Patnaik

Former Sukhamoy Chakravarty Chair, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Capitalism, Poverty, & Praxis

Professor Patnaik  is the author of Excursus in History: Essays on Some Ideas of Irfan Habib (Tulika Books 2011), Re-Envisioning Socialism (Tulika Books 2011), The Value of Money (Columbia UP 2009), The Retreat to Unfreedom: Essays on the Emerging World Order (Tulika 2003), Accumulation and Stability Under Capitalism (Clarendon Press, 1997), and Macroeconomics (Oxford UP 1995), Economics and Egalitarianism (Oxford UP 1991), Lenin and Imperialism: An Appraisal of Theories and Contemporary Reality (Sangam Books 1986), and co-author of several volumes, including A Theory of Imperialism  (Columbia UP 2017). As executive head of the state of Kerala’s planning board from 2006 to 2011 he oversaw a significant expansion in welfare measures. 

Location and Address

Directions/Parking Information

From Pittsburgh International Airport (From the West)

Take I-279 toward Pittsburgh. Pass through the Fort Pitt Tunnel, stay to the right, and bear right at the first ramp over the bridge onto I-376.  Exit I-376 at the Oakland/Forbes Avenue Exit (2A). Merge onto Forbes Avenue toward Oakland.  Continue on Forbes Avenue and make a left onto Bigelow Boulevard.

 

From the Pennsylvania Turnpike (From the East)

Take the Pittsburgh/Monroeville Exit (Exit 57). Follow I-376 toward Pittsburgh; Take the Oakland Exit (3B). Proceed up the hill through the first traffic light; Continue on Bates Street where you can reach Forbes Avenue by turning left on ANY of the following roads off of Bates: (in order of which you would drive by) McKee Place, Semple Street, Atwood Street, or S. Bouquet Street. Continue on road of your choice until you reach the intersection with Forbes Avenue. Continue on Forbes Avenue and make a left onto Bigelow Boulevard.

 

From the North

Take I-79 South to I-279 South to I-579 (Veterans Bridge – Exit 8A); Follow Signs to Oakland/376 East onto the Boulevard of the Allies exit. Follow the Boulevard of the Allies, staying in the left lane. After the Monroeville split, look for an immediate right onto the Forbes Avenue exit. Continue on Forbes Avenue and make a left onto Bigelow Boulevard.