This event will be held both virtually and in person. Registration required for virtual attendance. In person attendance is limited to Columbia and Barnard affiliates with the green pass or proof of vaccination and ID. To be held in the Second Floor Common Room of the Heyman Center.
The Psychoanalytic Studies Program at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
A talk by:
Elissa Marder (Emory)
Moderated with a Response
Marcus Coelen
This event will be held virtually and in person for CU affiliates.
Registration for virtual attendance can be found here. The talk will take place in the Heyman Center’s Second Floor Common Room. ID and vaccination proof required.
Elissa Marder is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University where she is also affiliated with the departments of Women’s Gender and Sexuality and Philosophy. She is a founding member of the Emory Psychoanalytic Studies Program and served for many years as Director. Her publications include Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) (Stanford University Press, 2001); The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Photography, Deconstruction (Fordham University Press, 2012); Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History), eds. E.S. Burt, Elissa Marder, Kevin Newmark. Yale French Studies vol. 125/126 (Spring 2014); and Literature and Psychoanalysis: Open Questions, ed. Elissa Marder. Paragraph Volume 40; Issue 3 (November 2017). Situated at the intersection of psychoanalysis, deconstruction and feminism, her work engages with texts and questions that challenge traditional conceptions of temporality, birth, technology, sexual difference, and the limits of the human.
Marcus Coelen is a practicing psychoanalyst, a visiting professor of Psychoanalysis/Comparative Literature and Romance Philology/Critical Theory at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, and teaches at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
