Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

The Politics of Surrealism Speaker Wolfgang Asholt, Honorary Professor, Institute of Romance Studies, Humboldt Universität, Berlin. Contact Hannah Stone hannahstone@g.harvard.edu Abstract Surrealism is the most significant historical international avant...

Hyperreality Colloquium: Second Session Interdisciplinary perspectives on hyperreality, culture, and politics. Agenda 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM The Map and the Encyclopedia: Science and the Hyperreality in Baudrillard, Borges, and Kuhn Valerio Pepe (Harvard) The...

Hyperreality Colloquium: First Session Interdisciplinary perspectives on hyperreality, culture, and politics. Agenda 11:00 AM - 11:40 AM Liminal Ontologies: From Classical Hyperrealities to “Neomedieval Metacapitalism" Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate...

The Return Era: The Global Politics of Cultural Restitution Speaker Rouven Symank, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. Contact Hannah Stone hannahstone@g.harvard.edu Abstract Cultural...

Democracy as Shared Breath: Vulnerability, Ethics, and Religion in the Public Space Speaker Lenart Škof, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies; Head of the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Science and Research Center Koper...

German Memory Culture and the Place of Grief Speaker Simone Stirner, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Contact: Hannah Stone hannahstone@g.harvard.edu Abstract When Hannah Arendt visited Berlin in...

Please note: This event has been postponed to March 30, 2026. German Memory Culture and the Place of Grief Speaker Simone Stirner, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Contact: Hannah Stone hannahstone...

Indigeneity in Mexican Muralism: Theorizing Cultural Critique on Stolen Land Speaker Matylda Figlerowicz, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University. Chair Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern...

Please note: This event has been canceled. The Right to Despair: Rethinking Left Wing Melancholia Speaker: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University. Contact: Charles Gaillard...

The Eclipse of the Analog and the Hardware Turn Speaker: Luciano Floridi, Founding Director, Digital Ethics Center; Professor in the Practice, Cognitive Science Program, Yale University. Contact: Charles Gaillard cgaillard@fas.harvard.edu Chair...