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Theory/Post-Theory is organized by the Graduate Students Association of the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. We gratefully acknowledge co-sponsorship by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, The Program in Critical Theory, and the Deparmtents of English, Film & Media, Art History and Rhetoric.

Please join the Rhetoric and Film & Media Departments on Monday, April 21 at 5:30pm in Dwinelle 135 for a screening of D.N. Rodowick’s latest work.

Featuring panels on rhetorical traditions, visual cultures, post-colonial discourses, and theories of the subject, "Theory/Post-Theory" will investigate the contested status of theoretical thought in the academy.

Political Economy, Eurocentrism, and Colonialism

Theory and Rhetorical Traditions

Theories of the Subject, Theories of the Self

Theorizing Cinema, Media, and the Visual

9:00 am - 10:45 am

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

3:45 pm - 4:45 pm

D.N. Rodowick

* In the Nestrick Room (142 Dwinelle Hall) Reception to follow.

Keynote: University of Chicago: “Perfectionism’s Ironic Transport: Reading Now, Voyager after Cavell”

5:00 pm

Apr18

Panels (308A Doe Library):