Media Appearances, Events, and Lectures
MLA Presidential Forum on “Narrating Lives” January 2011
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 historical event...
Roundtable with Gayatri Spivak on “Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization”
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 notions of...
World Scale Ambitions Stanford 2005
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:...
Rational Choice Theory and the Humanities: Stanford 2005
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 various units on...
Speaking Out of Place: Getting Our Political Voices Back
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture
