"Intellectual Life in a Post-Totalitarian Society"
Andrei Pleşu is professor of art history, philosophy and religion at the University of Bucharest.
Panel Discussants: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jorge Klor de Alva (Ethnic Studies), David Hollinger (History) and Angela Harris (Boalt Hall School of Law).
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosopher, Cultural Theorist, & Novelist
Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist. His scholarship addresses political and moral theory, African intellectual history, and philosophical questions of culture and identity.
Dušan Makavejev, Director & Screenwriter
Dušan Makavejev is a Serbian film director famous for his films of former Yugoslavia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Known for blending fiction with reality and drama with humor, Makavejev’s work often contains experimental elements and has been considered controversial for its eroticism and sharp criticism of Eastern European politics.
Panel Discussants: Philip Fisher and Richard Wollheim (Philosophy)
“Aesthetic Strangeness, Recognition, the Ordinary”
Panel Discussants: Philip Fisher and Steven Knapp (English)
Philip Fisher, English and American Literature, Harvard University
Philip Fisher is Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University. Professor Fisher’s research interests include cultural theory, modernism, American art and its cultural institutions, the philosophy and literature of the passions, narrative theory, and game theory and the novel.
Panel Discussants: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (University of Washington), Susan Napier (University of Texas, Austin) and John Treat (University of Washington)