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Thursday, November 14, 2013

5:30 pm

Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 10695 Cushing Street

Brown University Department of EnglishFaculty/Graduate Student Colloquium

EDUARDO CADAVA

EMERSON AND THE WILDNESSOF FRIENDSHIP

Eduardo Cadava, Professor of English at Princeton University,specializes in American literature and culture, literary and politicaltheory, comparative l iterature, media technologies, and theory oftranslation. He will be discussing the ways in which Emerson's essay"Friendship" reflects on the conditions that make friendship possibleand impossible. Insisting on dissociating friendship from knowledge,transparency, or communion, Emerson suggests that fr iendshipnever occurs without the marking of a certain strangeness. Thestranger not only marks the limit of friendship, but he at the sametime suggests the alterity without which friendship is impossible.Professor Cadava's books include Words of Light: Theses on thePhotography of History (Princeton), Emerson and the Climates ofHistory (Stanford), and Fazal She ikh: Por t ra i ts (Ste id l ) ; he isco-editor of The Itinerant Languages of Photography (Princeton), WhoComes After the Subject? (Routledge), and Cities Without Citizens(Rosenbach Museum/Slought Foundation). Cadava's new bookPaper Graveyards: Essays on Art and Photography is forthcomingfrom Princeton.

Co-sponsored by � Department of American Studies � Department of Comparative Literature �Department of Literary Arts � Cogut Center for the Humanties

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Elizabeth Pedinotti

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