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Ioan Davies annual lecture presents Professor Rei Terada and Professor Joshua Clover

Lecture:   Red, Black and New:  Reorienting Anticapitalisms
Date:         January 21, 2013       
Time:         5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location:  Senate Chamber, 9th Floor Ross Building

Rei Terada is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.  She is the author of Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno (Harvard UP, 2009),  Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject” (Harvard UP, 2001), which won René Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry (Northeastern UP, 1992).  She is currently at work on Radical Anxiety .

Joshua Clover is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He’s the author of 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This To Sing About  (University of California Press, 2009), The Matrix (British Film Institute, 2004), several prize-winning volumes poetry including The Totality for Kids (University of California Press, 2006) and Madonna anno domini (Louisiana State University Press 1997).  He writes for the The Nation, Guardian, the Village Voice, and the Lana Turner Journal on music, political economy, and poetry. He also is author of a column for Film Quarterly called “Marx and Coca-Cola” and is at work on a book tentatively called Capital Poetics.  He’s one of the “Davis Dozen”.