Political Concepts at Brown, December 5, 2015 3 of 4

December 5, 2015 Session #3.
Speakers include: Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Pembroke Center/Italian Studies/Comparative Literature, “Abiura”; Rebecca Schneider, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, “Gesture”.
Moderated by Gerhard Richter, German Studies/Comparative Literature.
The goal of Political Concepts is to serve as a platform for revising, inventing, and experimenting with concepts while exploring the political dimension of their use and dissemination. Participants operate under the assumption that our era urgently needs a revised political lexicon that would help us better understand the world in which we live and act, and that the humanities at large can and should contribute toward such a revision. In the past, some of the participants revised key political concepts while others showed the political work done by terms and common nouns that are not usually considered “political.”