2019-2020

SPRING TERM 2020
Thursday, February 13–Friday, April 17

READINGS FOR THE TERM
Giorgio Agamben, What Is an Apparatus? (2009)
Theodor Adorno, Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords (English transl., 1998), containing Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969)
Princeton University, Community of Inquiry, Keywords; For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, Especially as It Concerns Disciplines, Inter-Disciplinary Endeavor, and Modes of Resistance to the Same (2018)
Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1973)
Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (1951)

EVENTS
Thursday, February 13: A word about the term. Projects of the Institute: Elliott State Forest, Sorbonne events, OICR’s Keywords Project, pamphleteering, Visiting Artists, Poets, and Scholars through Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program and new possibilities for Artists at Risk, among others.
Friday, February 14: Research Workshop

Friday, February 28: Lecture by Shannon McWeeney, Oregon Health & Science University; Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Head, Division of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology; Associate Director, Computational Biomedicine, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute; Director, Translational Bioinformatics, Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute. The talk will take place at OHSU

Friday, March 6: Seminar with Cihan Özpinar, OICR Research Scholar and Affiliate, Department of International and Global Studies, Portland State University, “The Relevance of Historical Materialism in the 21st Century”

Friday, March 13: Talk by Sinem Uz, Economist/Sustainability Specialist, “Sustainability Matters: From Survival of Species to the Production of Space”

Friday, April 10: Public Talk by Svetlana Mintcheva, Director of Programs, National Coalition against Censorship. Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 13: “Contemporary Brazilian Poetry and Culture: A Reading and Conversation,” with Flávia Rocha, OICR Research Associate; Leonardo Tonus, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV); and Virna Teixeira, Editor, Theodora and Founder, Carnaval Press. This event will be held in collaboration with Lewis & Clark College

Friday, April 24: Márcia Tiburi, OICR Visiting Scholar and Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), “How to Talk to a Fascist”