Narratives of Debt
20 videos • 477 views • by Cogut Institute for the Humanities The conference, co-organized by Emmanuel Bouju and Peter Szendy, gathers key thinkers in contemporary critical theory to explore the question of debt in an interdisciplinary perspective, ranging from the history of slavery to psychoanalysis, from literature to financial capitalism, from philosophy to cryptocurrencies. Program, abstracts, and speaker bios at https://www.brown.edu/academics/human... Cogut Institute for the Humanities | April 5–6, 2019 Presented as part of the Economies of Aesthetics Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Institut Universitaire de France, the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Brown University’s Humanities Initiative Programming Fund, the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, and the Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, English, French Studies, German Studies, Modern Culture and Media, and Philosophy.