Manthia Diawara. On Edouard Glissant's film One World In Relation. 2012

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures    2016年2月24日
http://www.egs.edu Manthia Diawara, Malian writer, cultural theorist and filmmaker, talking about the philosophy of relation in Edouard Glissants film One World In Relation. In this lecture, Manthia Diawara discusses post-slavery African diaspora, Black culture in the New World, liberation through work, identity politics, democracy, multiculturalism, the figure of the poet in relation to philosophy and crossing frontiers in relating to others focusing on the unconscious, imagination, memory, the philosophical concept of trace, anxiety, open identities, the role of intuition and opacity. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012. Manthia Diawara.

Manthia Diawara, Ph.D., (born 1953 Bamako, West Africa) is a writer, cultural theorist, film director and professor of comparative literature of Malian origin. After studying in Bamako, he went on to pursue studies in literature in France but completing his doctorate in 1985 at Indiana University in the United States, where he currently resides. Having taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara the University of Pennsylvania, Manthia Diawara went on to become a professor of comparative literature and cinema at New York University where he also heads the Department of African Studies and the Institute of African American Affairs. He teaches summer intensive courses at the European Graduate School and is the founder of the publishing house "Black Renaissance".

Manthia Diawara has produced and directed several documentaries, among them "Sembène Ousmane: The Making of African Cinema" (1994, in collaboration with Kenyan writer Ngûgî wa Thiong'o), "Rouch in Reverse" (1995) and Bamako Sigi-Kan (2003), an intimate look at his hometown. He has also written extensively on film and literature of the Black Diaspora. Some of his writings include African Cinema: Politics and Culture (1992), Black American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship (1993), In Search of Africa (1998), We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World (2004), Bamako-Paris-New York (2007) and African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics (2010).

(Edward Said) Memory, Inequality and Power: Palestine and the... (2003)

source: UC Berkeley Events    2007年8月21日
Edward Said, author of the groundbreaking work "Orientalism" and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was one of the most prominent literary and cultural critics in the United States. His writings about the Middle East and its relationship to the West have had a major influence on both scholarship and public opinion. [events] [glopubaffairs] Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services, speaker:Edward Said

Simon Critchley. Humour, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy.

source: European Graduate School    2011年3月31日
http://www.egs.edu Simon Critchley, philosopher and professor, talking about philosophy, comedy, humor, wit, Freud, Superego, and laughter. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses eccentricity, conscience, melancholia, ethical demand, Foucault, discipline, and self love, in relationship to jouissance, Lacan, desire, sexuation, finitude, Badiou, and jokes. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010 Simon Critchley.
Simon Critchley, Ph.D., is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The New School, as well as a professor at the European Graduate School. Simon Critchley was born on February 27, 1960 in Hertfordshire, England. He is a world renowned scholar of Continental Philosophy and phenomenology. Much of his work examines the crucial relationship between the ethical and political within philosophy.
Simon Critchley's published work deals largely with disappointment and it's relationship to philosophy; chiefly, religious or political disappointment. Simon Critchley's published works include: Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida(1999), Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought (1999) , Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction(2001), On Humour (2002), and The Book of Dead Philosophers (2008).

Jacques Lacan in Theory (2009) by Paul Fry at Yale University

source: YaleCourses    2009年9月1日
Lecture 13 from Introduction to Theory of Literature (ENGL 300)
In this lecture on psychoanalytic criticism, Professor Paul Fry explores the work of Jacques Lacan. Lacan's interest in Freud and distaste for post-Freudian "ego psychologists" are briefly mentioned, and his clinical work on "the mirror stage" is discussed in depth. The relationship in Lacanian thought, between metaphor and metonymy is explored through the image of the point de capiton. The correlation between language and the unconscious, and the distinction between desire and need, are also explained, with reference to Hugo's "Boaz Asleep."

00:00 - Chapter 1. Peter Brooks and Lacan
09:03 - Chapter 2. Lacan and Freudian Scholarship
15:51 - Chapter 3. The Mirror Stage
22:18 - Chapter 4. Language and the Unconscious
30:25 - Chapter 5. Metonymy, Metaphor, and Desire
37:03 - Chapter 6. What Is Desire?
46:50 - Chapter 7. Slavoj Žižek
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
This course was recorded in Spring 2009.

Postcolonial Feminism in Asia and Africa, Rey Ty & Maimouna Konate

source: Raj Altee    2007年12月14日
Post-Colonial Feminism in Asia and Africa -- Rey Ty & Maimouna Konate
Case Studies: Philippines and Mali
Adult education, Gender, Women

Postcolonial Feminism in Asia, Africa & Latin America

source: Raj Altee    2008年4月27日
Critical Postcolonial Feminism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Gender, Women, Feminism
by Rey Ty, Maimouna Konate, and Flavia Carvalho

Imperialist Feminism: A Historical Overview by Deepa Kumar

source: Deepa Kumar    2013年7月31日
In this talk at UC, Berkeley (March, 2013), Dr. Kumar argues that the West has often used the liberation of brown women as an excuse for empire. She debunks this rescue narrative starting with the Afghan war and then going back to 19th century colonial narratives in regard to Muslim women.

Minding the Body: the body in psychoanalysis and beyond (2015 Freud Memorial Lecture)

source: University of Essex    2015年6月23日
A full recording of the 2015 Freud Memorial Lecture introduced by Mrs Sue Kegerreis, from our Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, and delivered by Professor Alessandra Lemma on 'Minding the Body: the body in psychoanalysis and beyond'.
Centre of Psychoanalytic Studies: essex.ac.uk/cps/default.aspx
Undergraduate Courses: essex.ac.uk/cps/ug/courses.aspx
Postgraduate Courses: essex.ac.uk/cps/pg/default.aspx