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Domeitta Torlasco

Northwestern University

Domietta Torlasco is a critical theorist, filmmaker, and associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Northwestern University. She is the author of two books: The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film (2008) and The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film (2013). Her video essays have screened at national and international venues, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Galerie Campagne Première in Berlin, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She is currently completing a book titled Rhythm Beyond Measure: Cinema and the Life of Images and an experimental documentary on playgrounds.

Domietta Torlasco

Associate Professor, Italian and Comparative Literature, Northwestern University

February 4, 2020

Lwando Scott

Senior Researcher

November 25, 2019

The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade: mobilising creative ecologies in the Klein Karoo, South Africa

A new publication by Aja Marneweck explores the multifaceted process of creating the large-scale annual public puppetry event, The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade, in the rural town of Barrydale, South Africa.

October 11, 2019

Call for Papers – Revolutionary Papers: Counter-Institutions, Politics and Culture in Periodicals of the Global South workshop

The workshop will examine 20th century periodicals and related print ephemera – including newspapers, cultural and literary journals, magazines, manifestoes, newsletters and political pamphlets – as sites of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production throughout decolonization, anti-Apartheid struggles, and the post-colonial era.

September 30, 2019

Other Lives of the Image: International Workshop in Visual History and Theory

From 4 - 6 October, the International Workshop in Visual History and Theory will convene around the theme Other Lives of the Image.

August 7, 2019

Steve Ouma Akoth

Kenyatta University

August 7, 2019

Dr. Thomas Asher

Columbia World Projects, Columbia University

August 6, 2019

What is the University for?

A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.

July 9, 2019

Professor Premesh Lalu celebrates David Koloane’s life

Professor Premesh Lalu celebrates David Koloane’s life as a purveyor of “a lover’s discourse” and he is described by former president Thabo Mbeki as “a fighter for the liberation of our people.”

July 8, 2019