

There are no mistakes in history. The whole of history is a mistake. (2009-06-04) Featuring: Catherine Millet, Nicolas Bourriaud, Jean-Hubert Martin, Lorand Hegyi, Zelimir Koscevic, Aaron Levy, and Braco Dimitrijevic
Into the Open: Public Programs (2009-08-07) Featuring: Presented by the National Constitution Center, Independence Mall
Choose From Past Projects In The Series
Into the Open: The Conference (2009-04-24) Featuring: at Parsons The New School for Design,
featuring presentations by Teddy Cruz, Deborah Gans, Laura Kurgan, and Rick Lowe, with agents provocateurs Jean Gardner, Robert Kirkbride, David J. Lewis, Lydia Matthews, Brian McGrath, Raoul Rickenberg, Bob Rubin, Grahame Shane, John Thackara, Susan Yelavich, Alfred Zollinger, Sven Travis, Miodrag Mitrasinovic, and William Bevington
Dialogues on Animality (2009-10-02) Featuring: With a keynote presentation by Akira Mizuta Lippit
 
Choose From Past Projects In The Series
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life (2002-10-31) Featuring: Eric Santner
 
The Future of Theory? (2002-11-01) Featuring: Jean-Michel Rabaté, Gregg Lambert
 
The Future of an Event (in Art and Technology) (2003-02-22) Featuring: Krzystof Ziarek, Ewa Ziarek, Jean-Michel Rabaté
  
Palm reading: Fazal Sheikh's Handbook of Death (2003-03-06) Featuring: Eduardo Cadava
 
Art versus Philosophy: A Debate (2003-03-20) Featuring: Joe Margolis, Osvaldo Romberg, Jean-Michel Rabaté
 
On the Art of the Future (2003-04-09) Featuring: Susan Stewart
 
Digital Fever: Archiving Art and Poetry Online (2003-04-10) Featuring: Craig Dworkin, Kenny Goldsmith, Brian Kim Stefans, Darren Wershler-Henry
 
Collaboration Between Two Worlds: Selling Russia to the West (2003-04-16) Featuring: Komar & Melamid, Arden Reed, Kevin Platt
  
On Paranoia, Superstition and Irrationality (2003-04-18) Featuring: Catherine Liu, Jean-Michel Rabaté
 
The Future of Theory, II (Feminism, Phenomenology, Philosophy) (2003-05-08) Featuring: Dorothea Olkowski, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Greg Flaxman
  
On Coprophilia and the Avant-garde (2004-01-31) Featuring: William Anastasi
 
Beckett and the Unfilmable (2004-02-12) Featuring: Branka Arsic, Jean-Michel Rabaté
 
A Conversation on Joyce and Duchamp via Jarry (2004-02-28) Featuring: William Anastasi, in conversation with Jean-Michel Rabaté
 
Introduction to the New Society (2004-02-28) Featuring: Lenore Malen
  
A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture (2004-03-13) Featuring: Rafi Segal, Eyal Weizman
 
The City as Art-Work of the 21st Century (2004-03-26) Featuring: Diane Lewis, Deborah Gans
 
Neurotic Cities: Barnes in Philadelphia (2004-04-01) Featuring: The Barnes Foundation
 
Poetry Engines and Prosthetic Imaginations (2004-04-29) Featuring: Jim Carpenter, Bob Perelman, Nick Montfort, Jean-Michel Rabaté
  
My Lacan is Burning: Revisiting 'Television' (2004-06-02) Featuring: Catherine Liu, Charles Shepherdson, Jean-Michel Rabaté
 
The Mechanism of Death (2004-09-30) Featuring: Dorothea Olkowski, Jean-Michel Rabaté
  
On Revolutions (2004-11-04) Featuring: Rebecca Comay, Eduardo Cadava, Jean-Michel Rabaté
 
The 'Civilization' of the Cinema (2004-11-19) Featuring: John Mowitt, Gregory Flaxman
 
The Politics of Mourning (2004-12-27) Featuring: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, in conversation with Eduardo Cadava, et al.
  
Ubu meets Gertrude (Towards A Post-textual Avant-garde) (2004-12-28) Featuring: Johanna Drucker, Christian Bök, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg
 
Literary Honeycombs: Storage and Retrieval of Texts Before Modern Times (2005-02-17) Featuring: Anthony Grafton
 
Museum Politics in France and the New European Art Scene (2005-02-17) Featuring: Lorand Hegyi
 
On Body & Performance (2005-03-03) Featuring: Hal Foster, in conversation with Brigid Doherty
 
PAIN-FASHION (2005-03-17) Featuring: Branka Arsic, in conversation
 
Pioneering art in the 1960s: Philadelphia (2005-04-06) Featuring: Paul Makler, Hope Makler, John Ollman, Judith Stein
Morphology / Face Shift (2005-09-30) Featuring: Arthur Elsenaar, Remko Scha

Cities: A Seminar (2005-10-08) Featuring: Hélène Cixous
  
East & East: Divergent Readings in Culture and Politics (2005-11-03) Featuring: Lorand Hegyi, Nebojsa Seric Soba
¡Zizek! and the Public Intellectual Craze (2005-12-01) Featuring: Astra Taylor, Eduardo Cadava, Anne Norton, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Daniel Dayan
 
Who Am I For Myself? Anxiety & The Tyranny of Choice (2006-02-16) Featuring: Renata Salecl, Charles Shepherdson, Patricia Gherovici, Jean-Michel Rabaté
 
On Testing, Torture, and Experimentation: The Test Drive (2006-03-15) Featuring: Avital Ronell, Eduardo Cadava, Jean-Michel Rabaté
 
Film as Critical Practice: The Cinema of Guy Debord and the Spectre of the Situationist International (2006-04-06) Featuring: Thomas Y. Levin, Keith Sanborn, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Anthony Vidler
  
BODYANALYSIS / Violence as Vulnerability: Günter Brus’s Surgical Art (2006-09-27) Featuring: Cecilia Novero
 
On Bareback Subcultures and the Pornography of Risk (2006-10-06) Featuring: Tim Dean, Robert Caserio, Heather Love, Jean-Michel Rabaté
 
Celebrating Hélène Cixous' Ex-Cities (2006-10-14) Featuring: The Drawing Center, La Maison Française
  
On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Negativity for Life (2006-11-10) Featuring: Barrett Watten
 
Cross-Catalytic Architectures (2006-12-05) Featuring: Cecil Balmond, in conversation with Peter Lloyd Jones
 
Rrrevolutionnaire Book Launch / Philadelphia (2006-12-29) Featuring: Branka Arsic, Eduardo Cadava, Gregory Flaxman, Gregg Lambert, Aaron Levy, Catherine Liu, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Avital Ronell

Honoring the Work and Person(s) of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007) (2007-03-23) Featuring: New York University, Columbia University
  
The Scandals of H.G.: Photography, Literature, Activism (2007-04-20) Featuring: Emily Apter, Anne-Cécile Guilbard, Jean-Michel Rabaté
  
Screening the Avant-Garde Face (2007-09-27) Featuring: Mary Ann Doane
 
Conversations with Braco Dimitrijević's 'The Casual Passer-By I Met...' (2007-10-11) Featuring: With Braco and Nena Dimitrijevic, David Brownlee, Katherine Carl, Laura Heffernan, David Hollenberg and Mark Kocent, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Michael Howard, and Aaron Levy,
Introduced and moderated by undergraduate students in the RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania
  
Walking on Ice: Werner Herzog's Metaphysics of Filmmaking (2007-10-22) Featuring: Timothy Corrigan, Alan Singer, Heidi Schlipphacke
  
On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying (2007-10-25) Featuring: Werner Herzog, in conversation with Karen Beckman
  
Radical Atheism: Derrida's Notion of Desire (2007-11-01) Featuring: Martin Hägglund
  
Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance (2007-11-15) Featuring: Alain Badiou, in conversation with Simon Critchley
  
Is there a world beyond media? Art as a rewriting program (2008-02-07) Featuring: Peter Weibel
 
Modernism: The Time of the Unconscious (2008-02-08) Featuring: Karen Beckman, Andy Gaedtke, Benjamin Kahan, Steven Meyer, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Paul Saint-Amour, Joshua Schuster, Pamela Thurschwell, Marina van Zuylen, and Liliane Weissberg, moderated by Detlef Mertins, Michael Leja, and Heather Love
Nazi Art in Museums? Canonization and Controversy (2008-02-15) Featuring: Gregory Maertz
  
From word to action to architecture (2008-02-29) Featuring: Vito Acconci
 
Love from Both Sides: Public Lecture by Bruce Fink (2008-03-29) Featuring: Bruce Fink
City Girls, Flappers, and Feminist Film Theory (2008-03-31) Featuring: Laura Mulvey
 
Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America (2008-04-10) Featuring: Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
 
Beyond the Act: After the Biennale (2008-10-04) Featuring: Emiliano Gandolfi, Teddy Cruz, William Menking, Aaron Levy
 
Amores: Paul Muldoon and Dan Gunn on Translation (2009-02-05) Featuring: Paul Muldoon, Dan Gunn
 
Civic War and The Corruption of the Citizen: A Conversation (2009-05-11) Featuring: Peter Alexander Meyers, Thomas J. Sugrue, Michael X. Delli Carpini, and Jean-Michel Rabaté in conversation
 
Love Letter | Steve Powers in conversation (2009-09-23) Featuring: Presented in partnership with the City of Philadelphia, Mural Arts Program, 25th Anniversary
 
On Being Jewish by Sigmund Freud (2009-10-06) Featuring: Betty Fuks, Eliza Slavet, Liliane Weissberg, and Patricia Gherovici in conversation
The Invention of Johannesburg (2009-10-22) Featuring: Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall in conversation
 
Episodes in Industrial Urbanism (2009-10-30) Featuring: Nina Rappaport
 
New Media in the Museum (2009-11-05) Featuring: Barbara London, in conversation
 
Wittgenstein's Voice: The Sound of the Unsystematic (2009-11-12) Featuring: Marjorie Perloff, Tom Pepper, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Sissi Tax in conversation, moderated by Jean-Michel Rabate
 
Capital crime and the art of the "Con" artist: The Madoff Case (2009-12-10) Featuring: Marcel Drach, Manya Steinkoler
Begging, borrowing, stealing: on literature and philosophy as a way of life (2009-12-29) Featuring: An evening of performances, conversations, and events
Rewriting History (2010-01-04) Featuring: Peter Weibel
 
The Dancer's Two Bodies: Jalal Toufic in Conversation (2010-02-05) Featuring: Jalal Toufic, Eduardo Cadava
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Current Or Upcoming Projects In The Series
Searching Looks: Asian American Visual Cultures (2010-03-31) Featuring: With a keynote address by Anne Anlin Cheng
Current Or Upcoming Projects In The Series
Poe after Smithson after Rainer (2010-03-22) Featuring: Simon Leung, David Joselit, Yvonne Rainer
Infinity Kisses - The Movie (2010-03-26) Featuring: Carolee Schneemann
Memories / Correspondences: Marcelo Brodsky in Conversation (2010-03-29) Featuring: Marcelo Brodsky, Eduardo Cadava
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