Speakers:
John Rajchman, Adjunct Professor in Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Lydia Liu, Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities; Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University
Bernard Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law; Director of Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Columbia University
Moderator:
Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor Emerita of History, Columbia University
In 1978 Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures and interviews in Japan, engaging with political intellectuals and literary scholars. Now available for the first time in English, these lectures shed new light on Foucault’s work, the nature and practice of critical theory, and the role of Asia in it.
On the occasion of the publication of Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter, presented and introduced by John Rajchman (Routledge, 2024), Carol Gluck, Lydia Liu, Bernard Harcourt, and John Rajchman will discuss its contents and their implications for us today.
Event sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Registration: To attend this event in-person, please register HERE.
