The Working Group

Sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center, the Working Group on Recent Critical Theory provides a space for students and faculty to read and discuss exciting new work.  We meet several times per semester for close-reading discussion of texts and for more wide-ranging conversation about how selected work relates to broader developments in the arts, humanities, and social theory. The selection of texts and authors is coordinated with the lectures and seminar events of the Initiative.

In fall 2019, we will meet to read and discuss work by Kojin Karatani in advance of his visit to campus.

25 October, 2:00 PM, Whitney Humanities Center B-04:
The Structure of World History

1 November, 2:00 PM, Whitney Humanities Center B-04:
Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy.

Further meetings TBA — stay tuned.

For any questions about the working group, please contact Matt Shafer (matthew.shafer@yale.edu).