PIGOTT HALL (RM. 216)
FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC

Professor Bill Brown from The University of Chicago, will be giving his lecture, “Re-Assemblage: Theory, Practice, Form”. In recent years, Professor Brown has been working at the intersection of literary, visual, and material cultures, with an emphasis on “object relations in an expanded field”, examining how inanimate objects enable human subjects (individually and collectively) to form and transform themselves—and indeed how objects and subjects transform one another. The “Re-Assemblage” project revolves around the question of how assemblage practices (across the literary, visual, and plastic arts) might contribute to assemblage theory in the social sciences. Bill Brown is the author of a number of groundbreaking books on material culture and object theory. Professor Lea Pao, from the Department of German Studies, will be responding.