"THEORIZING 2.0" 2002 LECTURE SERIES
Slought Networks and the Kelly Writers House present Theorizing 2.0, the second iteration of "Theorizing in Particular," a series of presentations which address current theoretical and methodological considerations in the humanities. Select talks are archived and available online for immediate download at: http://theorizing.org/archives/.


The general format for talks in the Theorizing 2.0 series is a 45-60 minute presentation, followed by a half-hour question-and-answer session, and concluding with refreshments and casual conversation at the same location.

Previous speakers in this series have included: Slavoj Zizek, Daniel Libeskind, Andreas Huyssen, Steven Levine, Peter Stallybrass, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Anson Rabinbach, Thierry de Duve, and Liliane Weissberg, among others. Slavoj Zizek spoke on the religious undercurrents of today's digitalized culture, Daniel Libeskind on memory and architecture.

The venue for the lecture series is the Kelly Writers House. Founded in 1995, the Kelly Writers House is an actual 13-room house (circa 1850) at the University of Pennsylvania that has been converted into a center for writing and theory of all kinds and from all disciplines.

Talks, free and open to the public, take place at:
Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19107
web site: http://theorizing.org
UPCOMING LECTURES - through April, 2002

Thursday, April 11 at 6:30pm
Christine Marran
"Empire, Japan, and Masochistic Desire"

Christine Marran is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Forthcoming from the journal Film History is
"Tracking the Transcendental: Kore'eda Hirokazu's Maboroshi." Her recent contribution "Body Circuitries
in Nineteenth Century Japanese Books of Nature" to a volume on Japanese women's texts (ed. Janice
Brown), is part of a larger project on technology and gender. She has written extensively on female deviancy
and cinematic sexuality in contemporary Japanese film and literature and is currently completing a book
manuscript, The Allure of the Poison Woman in Japanese Modernity.
For more information on these and other programs visit the Slought Networks' web site