by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
At the 2011 MLA, Sidonie Smith invited Marianne Hirsch, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy Miller, Robert Warrior and me to speak at her Presidential Forum on Narrating Lives. The essays were published in Profession. My essay, “Embedded Lives,” tells how a... by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
In 2010 Ramon Saldivar and I joined Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in a discussion of her lecture of this title. Ramon spoke about how hemispheric and trans-national studies gave a particular texture to “globalization” and cultural artifacts; I spoke on how... by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
This event was the brainchild of Nirvana Tanoukhi, who was at the time a PhD student in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford. She invited a remarkable group of scholars. The resulting essays are published in Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World:... by palumbo-liu | Aug 7, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
I had long been interested in how rational choice theory seemed to be a widely subscribed to formula for understanding human behavior. What would happen, I wondered, if we put it into “conversation” with humanists? As a starting point, I canvassed...