Please join us on Friday, February 8, 2013 for our next Mellon meeting! We will be meeting at 12pm in the English Department (70 Brown Street), Room 315. We will be hosting Professor Jodi Dodi, professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She teaches broadly within modern and contemporary
political theory, ranging from feminism to fascism, consumption, and
citizenship. Her research interests include digital media;
poststructuralism and psychoanalysis; neoliberalism and consumerism;
cultural studies; and feminism theory. Dean's impressive list of
publications boasts numerous journal articles, contributions to collected volumes, and seven monographs including Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics (Duke UP, 2009),
Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy (Cornell UP, 2002),
and her forthcoming work, The Communist Horizon (Verso, October 2012).
Dean has edited and co-edited several collected volumes addressing
questions of feminism, empire, and information networks. Dean also
serves as co-editor of Theory and Event, an electronic academic journal published quarterly by John Hopkins University Press. Professor Dean will come and talk with the workshop about some of her previous work, as well as a forthcoming project that she will be workshopping with the group. All readings will be available on the google site (log-in required). Lunch will be provided.
We are also delighted to sponsor a public talk that evening. Professor Dean will give a lecture entitled "Communicative capitalism: this is what democracy looks like" on Friday, February 8, 2013 at 4pm in Pembroke Hall, Room 305. This lecture is also co-sponsored through the generous support of the Department of Political Science, the Department of Sociology, and the Graduate Student Council at Brown University.
