‘Theory of the Gimmick– Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form’ by Sianne Ngai (English, University of Chicago) Discussants Mark Greif (English, Stanford University) Joseph Jonghyun Jeon (University of California, Irvine) Leigh Claire LaBerge (The City University of New York) Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in

I AM THE PEOPLE Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today by Partha Chatterjee On ZOOM Thursday, April 8, 2021, at 10 a.m. CST In I Am the People, Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for “the people.” To register: https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItceGrrzIuHNASqImjGa6WqAYuO6TKTFbd  

James J. Hodge and Shane Denson Zoom Event Friday, April 2, 2021 2 p.m. CST / 12 p.m. PST

Writer, journalist, and cultural critic Zha Jianying will present and discuss her five-part essay, China’s Heart of Darkness: Prince Han Fei and Chairman Xi Jinping, a study of the legacy of Chinese Legalist philosophy and its influence on the rule of Xi Jinping. This essay was published in China Heritage, July 14-22, 2020. Discussants Loubna El

John Durham Peters Yale University Friday, February 19

A Graduate Student Conference A Collaborative Project between Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan Friday, February 12, 2021

Dipesh Chakrabarty Zoom Event December 10, 2020

Automating the News. How algorithms are rewriting the media. November 13, 2020 (jpg) Democracy Without Shortcuts. October 23, 2020 (jpg) Media Aesthetics Symposium. November 22, 2019 (jpg) Roderick P. Hart. Local Voices and Why Hope Survives. October 31, 2019 MEDIA AESTHETICS – 2019 RHETORIC AND PUBLIC CULTURE SUMMER INSTITUTE — July 15-19, 2019 Popular Sovereignty,