Instructor: J. Peters
This course offers graduate students working in law and humanities an intensive theoretical and methodological training in the field. We will read a number of theoretical texts–those that have been most influential or provocative for theorists of law and culture (Plato, Cover, Benjamin, Schmitt, Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, Agamben, Butler, etc.) and evaluating a variety of critical approaches to this material. In this context, guest speakers may be invited to discuss their current work. Finally, the seminar will function as a research colloquium, in which student will develop their own projects, circulating their work in the seminar. Students in any field (literature, history, political theory, anthropology, performance, etc…) and at any stage of graduate study welcome.
