Malynne Sternstein: Love without Hope; Benjamins Trials with Surrealism
SVA Honors Program
New York, NY
BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the Honors Program presents a talk with cultural theorist and University of Chicago professor Malynne Sternstein that weaves Czech surrealism into the urgency of Walter Benjamins Arcades Project.
Malynne Sternstein is Professor Emerita in Slavic languages and literatures and the chair of the Fundamentals: Issues and Texts program at the University of Chicago. Her interests include Czech, Russian and Central European studies; the European avant-garde; semiotic theory; performance theory; gender and sexuality; aesthetic theory (kitsch); and narratology. She is the author of Against Arbitrariness: The Czech Avant-garde and the Subversion of the Symbolic Sign and Toyen: Gender, Obscurity and the Fires of Surrealism. She has been nominated for awards for excellence in both undergraduate and graduate teaching. |
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SVA Honors Program
133 W 21st St., #101c
New York, NY 10011
United States
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| Start: | Monday Feb 10, 2025 6:30 PM | | End: | Monday Feb 10, 2025 8:00 PM |
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