Faculty of Arts Events Calendar
14th Annual Edward Said Lecture: Harry Harootunian
Harry Harootunian, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, New York University, and Max Palevsky Professor of History and Civilizations, Emeritus, University of Chicago, will give the 14th annual Edward Said Lecture. His talk is titled, “‘In the Zone of Occult Instability’: Some Reflections on Unevenness, Discordant Temporalities, and the Logic of History.” Harootunian is a world-renowned historian of early modern and modern Japan, as well as a major theorist of Marxism and the philosophy of history. He is the author of eleven books, including Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan (Princeton, 2000), History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice and the Question of the Everyday Life (Columbia, 2000), and, most recently, Marx after Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism (Columbia, 2015)