Avenali Lectures

Every year for one week, the Townsend Center hosts a distinguished scholar as the Avenali Chair in the Humanities. The Avenali Chair delivers one or more public lectures and meets with faculty and students. Avenali lectures are made possible thanks to the generous gift of Peter and Joan Avenali.

Fredric Jameson, Avenali Chair in the Humanities 2011-2012

"The Aesthetics of Singularity"
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
6 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium

Follow-up Panel Discussion with Fredric Jameson
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
12–2 p.m. | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Panel Discussants: Whitney Davis (History of Art), Martin Jay (History), and Colleen Lye (English)
Moderator: Robert Kaufman (Comparative Literature)

Literary theorist and critic Fredric Jameson is William A. Lane Professor in the Program in Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. He has published a wide range of works analyzing literary and cultural texts, while developing his own Marxist theoretical perspectives and offering important critiques of opposing theoretical schools and positions. Professor Jameson’s best-known publications include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; The Political Unconscious; and Marxism and Form, and his most recent works are The Hegel Variations and Representing 'Capital.' He has received the William Riley Parker Prize and the James Russell Lowell Prize. In 2008, Professor Jameson was awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize and in 2011, the Modern Language Association awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Webcast | Resources on Fredric Jameson