Local
Global
Cloud
A series of lectures examining memory and mourning in contemporary criticism and culture
Slought is pleased to announce "Ruins of History," a lecture series on memory, mourning, and the politics of history.
On April 13, 2001, Charles H. Long will present a conversation titled "The Secret of the Cargo: The Problematics for a Study of W.E.B. Dubois' "The Souls of Black Folk." This will be followed by a lecture on "Bataille, Agamben, and the Holocaust," by Paul Hegarty on April 20, 2001. And in December 2001, Eduardo Cadava will present "Music on Bones: Salvatore Puglia and the Ruins of History," a lecture exploring the relation between music and techniques of reproduction, memorization, and writing. The series continued on March 6, 2003 with another lecture by Eduardo Cadava entitled "Palm reading: Fazal Sheikh's Handbook of Death."
These dialogues continue to inform the development of Slought as an institution.
Eduardo Cadava teaches in the English Department at Princeton University, where he is also an associate member of the Department of Comparative Literature and the School of Architecture. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History and of Emerson and the Climates of History. He is currently writing a collection of essays on mourning and nationalism, entitled Mourning America, and a small book on the relation between music and techniques of reproduction, memorization, and writing, entitled Music on Bones.
Paul Hegarty is associate professor at University College Cork, Ireland, where he has taught in the French Department since 1996, specializing in C20 thought and visual culture. He is also involved with the new 'art history' program and has taught in the schools of architecture and critical theory at the University of Nottingham in England. He has published articles and a book on Georges Bataille, and other articles on performance art, architecture and conceptual art. He is currently working on a book on Agamben and a further book on Bataille.
Charles H. Long was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He volunteered for the United States Army Air Forces and served in World War II. At the University of Chicago he studied with the Joachim Wach, and joined with Professors Mircea Eliade and Joseph Kitagawa in establishing the international journal, History of Religions; he also helped established the first curriculum for the study of religion in the College of the University of Chicago. He has been involved in the training of three generations of scholars in religion and African American studies. Publications include: Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Study of Religion (1986, 2nd ed., 1999). He has served as a visiting faculty member at universities nationwide. From 1991 to 1996 he served as Director of the Research Center for Black Studies and Professor of History of Religions at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He retired from the University of California in 1996.