www.brown.edu/english/events Thursday, November 14, 2013 5:30 pm Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106 95 Cushing Street Brown University Department of English Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium EDUARDO CADAVA E MERSON AND THE W ILDNESS OF F RIENDSHIP Eduardo Cadava, Professor of English at Princeton University, specializes in American literature and culture, literary and political theory, comparative literature, media technologies, and theory of translation. He will be discussing the ways in which Emerson's essay "Friendship" reflects on the conditions that make friendship possible and impossible. Insisting on dissociating friendship from knowledge, transparency, or communion, Emerson suggests that friendship never occurs without the marking of a certain strangeness. The stranger not only marks the limit of friendship, but he at the same time suggests the alterity without which friendship is impossible. Professor Cadava's books include Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (Princeton), Emerson and the Climates of History (Stanford), and Fazal Sheikh: Portraits (Steidl); he is co-editor of The Itinerant Languages of Photography (Princeton), Who Comes After the Subject? (Routledge), and Cities Without Citizens (Rosenbach Museum/Slought Foundation). Cadava's new book Paper Graveyards: Essays on Art and Photograph y is forthcoming from Princeton. Co-sponsored by Department of American Studies Department of Comparative Literature Department of Literary Arts Cogut Center for the Humanties Princeton University Elizabeth Pedinotti Reception to Follow

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www.brown.edu/english/events

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

Princeton University

Elizabeth Pedinotti

Reception to Follow