For a decade, 1993-2003, Jacques Derrida taught at New York University as Global Distinguished Professor. During those years he gave seminars on important topics of his later work: testimony, hospitality and hostility, perjury and pardon, and the death penalty, Shakespeare’s calculative grid and racism. They represent for many the most sustained and considered engagement by deconstruction with political questions. Most of these seminars have now been posthumously published, both in French and in English translation. Commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Derrida’s death in 2004, the Departments of Comparative Literature teams up with the Maison Française and Department of German, which hosted Derrida when he came to NYU. On 21 November 2024 the Maison in conjunction with the two departments invites scholars of Derrida’s work to speak at a one-day conference devoted to the topics of Derrida’s New York teaching.
Full schedule coming soon!
The New York Institute of Philosophy announces a panel:
“Philosophical Foundations of Reparations”
Speakers:
- Daniel Fryer (University of Michigan)
- Erin Kelly (Tufts)
- Christopher Lewis (Harvard)
The panel will be moderated by Juliana Bidadanure (NYU).
Information:
The talk will be Friday December 6th from 3:30-5:30pm.
Location: TBD
This panel is a part of the ongoing Project on the Philosophy of Race and Racism.
Registration is free but required for non-NYU attendees. A registration link will be shared via email with our department mailing lists a few weeks before the event. Please contact Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu if you did not receive a registration link.