Noted French philosopher Alain Badiou will visit UAH as a Humanities Center Eminent Scholar and give a keynote address on Wednesday, November 16. Badiou's lecture, "The Relationship Between Literature and Politics from the Point of View of Philosophy," will culminate a two-day event, "The Real Possibilities of Fiction: A Symposium on the Thought of Alain Badiou." On Tuesday, November 15 at 5:30 p.m. in the Wilson Hall Theater Susan Spitzer, a frequent translator of Badiou's works, will deliver the talk "Translating Badiou." Following her talk, Kenneth Reinhard, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, will give the address "Truth, Knowledge, Opinion: Democratic Materialism to the Materialist Dialectic" at 6:15.
On Wednesday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m in Chan Auditorium Phillip E. Weaver, Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar and Research Foundation Professor at the University of Florida, will present "Greimas avec Lacan (avec Badiou): The Event of the New Criticism and the Fate of The Republic," followed by Alain Badiou's keynote lecture at 8:00 p.m.