The Program in Literature presents

the Srinivas Aravamudan Annual Lecture in Critical Theory

September 12 & 13, 2019

with

John Durham Peters

the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and Film and Media Studies | Yale University

Day 1 - Thursday, September 12, 2019

Lecture:  PICTURING WEATHER, PICTURING CLIMATE

Introduction by Mark Hansen

Friedl Building, Rm 115,  4-5:30pm, followed by a reception

Through a historical selection of weather images from the North Atlantic world over the past several centuries—paintings, maps, diagrams, photographs—Professor Peters’s lecture will show how often such images present impossible objects and impossible subjects. This history is one backdrop for the often noted difficulty in grasping and communicating the urgency of climate change concretely and experientially. 

Day 2 - Friday, September 13, 2019

Seminar:  TIME AND OTHER PROBLEMS IN MEDIA THEORY

Response by Michael Hardt

Friedl Building, Rm 115, 11am-12:30pm, followed by a buffet lunch

Recommended readings for the seminar are provided below

Professor Peters’s seminar will discuss media’s productive failure to capture temporal processes.

With the kind co-sponsorship of:

The Office of the Provost

The Dean of Arts & Sciences

The Dean of the Humanities

Art, Art History and Visual Studies