Zizek in the Mid-West

Cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek will be at Wheaton College on Thursday, Nov. 9th, at 7:30-9:00 at Calvin College in Grand Rapids on Friday, November 10, at 7pm in the Seminary Auditorium.  The title of his lecture at Wheaton is "Why Only an Atheist Can Believe: Politics between Fear and Trembling," and at Calvin is "In What Sense Was Nietzsche a Christian?" 

Comments

[Noah Dennis]

How do you know the title of the lecture at Calvin? It looked around and only found contradictory information: I read at other sites that it's the same lecture. I would be very interested in the topic that you say he will speak on at Calvin.

[geoff holsclaw]

jamie smith posted the original announcement using that title for the lecture. I don't know if it has changed or not.

[Noah Dennis]

I just looked again, and I'm pretty sure it's the same lecture. The English department at Calvin advertizes the lecture as "Why Only Atheists Can Believe"--presumably the same as the one he presents at Wheaton. I'm going to the Wheaton one; perhaps something will be said about the topic at Calvin, or information will be made available. Thanks for your help.

[geoff holsclaw]

noah,
if it is the same lecture, be sure to take notes. I have a couple of friends going to the Wheaton lecture, and I'll be at the Calvin lecture, and I'm planning on doing a synopsis of it all here afterwards.

[byron]

Please let us know if the talks are recorded and downloadable.

[James K.A. Smith]

Any reports on Zizek's parousia at either Wheaton or Calvin?

[Geoff Holsclaw]

it will be coming shortly...tomorrow I hope.

[byron]

Still love to hear if there were recordings!

[Seth]

The Calvin English Dept. has streaming video of the lecture here:
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/

The quality of the video/audio is very good.
There are about 6 minutes of milling about before Zizek says anything but, in classic Zizek fashion, his first words are "...it's kind of an aggressive phallic..." in reference to the microphone.