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Critical Theory Institute records (University of California, Irvine)
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Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory Series 1. 2002-2009

Access

Access to duplicating masters is restricted; where they do not already exist, viewing copies must be made before use.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains audio and video recordings of selected lectures given at UCI as part of the series Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory.

Series Arrangement

Printed material about the lectures is arranged first, followed by audio and video recordings in chronological order.
box 8, folder 1

Printed fliers promoting ILCT events 2002-2009

 

Poovey, Mary. "Commodifying the Future: Futures Trading on the Stock Market" 2002 November 25

box 1, item V001-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Balibar, Etienne. "My Self and My O wn: One and the Same?" 2003 February 12

box 1, item V002-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Rabinow, Paul. "Untimely Meditations: Belated and Adjacent Work-in-Progress" 2003 February 25

box 1, item V003-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Lippit, Akira. "One, Two, Three: The Psychic Economy of Multiplicity" 2003 April 3

box 1, item V004-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Schwab, Gabriele. "Ethnographies of the Future: Personhood, Agency, and Power in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis" 2003 April 30

box 1, item V005-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Dillon, Michael. "Security, Life, Terror" 2004 March 10

box 1, item V006-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Masco, Joseph. "Threat Assessments: The Nuclear State of Emergency." 2004 May 12

box 1, item V007-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Smith, John H. "Critique of Secure Reason" 2004 May 26

box 1, item V008-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Poster, Mark. "The Digital Self: Identity Theft and Security" 2005 January 26

box 1, item V009-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Goldberg, David Theo. "Targets of Opportunity" 2005 February 23

box 1, item V010-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Hajjar, Lisa. "What's the Matter With You? - The Crime of Torture and the Role of Lawyers" 2005 April 13

box 1, item V011-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Brown, Wendy. "Secularism, Idealism, Materialism: Charles Taylor and Karl Marx" 2008 January 9

box 1, item D015-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 DVD
 

Freccero, Carla. "Carnivorous Virility, or Becoming-Dog 2009/11/16

box 1, item D022-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 DVD
 

Wellek Library Lectures Series 2. 1987-2021

Access

Access to duplicating masters is restricted; where they do not already exist, viewing copies must be made before use.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains audio and video recordings of the Wellek Library Lectures from 1987 to 2007, 2010, 2014, and 2021. The 1988, 2003, and 2004 lectures are not included.

Series Arrangement

Printed material about the lectures is arranged first, followed by audio and video recordings in chronological order.
box FB 070, folder 9, box 8, folder 2

Printed flyers promoting WLL events 1991, 2001-2007, 2014-2015

 

Marin, Louis. "Pascalian Propositions for Today" 1987 March 31, April 2-3

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures.
box 2, item A001-M to A003-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 3 audiocassettes
 

Said, Edward. "Musical Elaborations" 1989 May

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures.
box 2, item A004-A to A009-A

Archival originals

Physical Description: 6 audiocassettes
box 2, item A004-M to A012-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 9 audiocassettes
box 9, item A004-U to A009-U

Listening copies

Physical Description: 6 audiocassettes
 

Cixous, Hélène. "Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing" 1990

box 2, item A013-M to A018-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 6 audiocassettes
box 10, folder 7, item A013-U to A014-U

Listening copies

Physical Description: 2 audiocassettes
 

Jameson, Fredric. "The Constraints of Postmodernism" 1991 April, 24, 25, 26

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures.
box 2, item A019-M to A021-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 3 audiocassettes
box 3, item A019-U to A021-U

Listening copies

Physical Description: 3 audiocassettes
 

Hartman, Geoffrey. "Three on 'Culture'" 1992 June

Scope and Contents note

Includes only the third of the three lectures given by Geoffrey Hartmann. Also includes an introduction by Alex Gelley.
box 2, item A022-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
 

Keller, Evelyn Fox. "Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology" 1993 June

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 2 lectures: "Molecules, Messages, and Memory" and "Valences of Organicism."
box 2, item A023-M to A024-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 2 audiocassettes
 

Iser, Wolfgang. "Variables of Interpretation: Iterations of Translatability" 1994 May 23, 24, 26

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures.
box 2, item A025-M to A027-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 3 audiocassettes
box 3, item A025-U to A027-U

Listening copies

Physical Description: 3 audiocassettes
 

Krauss, Rosalind. "Formless: A Feat" 1995 May

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures.
box 2, item A028-M to 033-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 6 audiocassettes
 

Balibar, Etienne. "On Politics and History: Presence, Cruelty, and the Universals" 1996 May 6, 7, 9

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures: "Presence," "Cruelty," and "Universals."
box 2, item A034-M to A038-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 5 audiocassettes
box 10, folder 6

Listening copies

Physical Description: Three compact discs (CDs).

Scope and Content Summary

Includes audio for "Cruelty" and "Universals" lectures only.
 

Harootunian, Harry. "History's Disquiet: Modernity and Everyday Life" 1997 May 12, 13, 15

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures.
box 2, item A039-M to A041-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 3 audiocassettes.
 

Butler, Judith. "Antigone's Claim: Kinship, Aberration, and Psychoanalysis" 1998 May 8, 11, 12

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures.
box 3, item A042-M to A045-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 4 audiocassettes
 

Baudrillard, Jean. "The Vital Illusion" 1999 May

box 3, item A046-M to A051-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 6 audiocassettes
 

Spivak, Gayatry. "The New Comparative Literature" 2000 May 22, 23, 25

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures.
box 3, item A052-M to A054-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 3 audiocassettes
 

Bhabha, Homi. "Scrambled Eggs and a Dish of Rice" 2001 November 5, 6, 8

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures: "The Quasi-Colonial: Scrambled eggs and a Dish of Rice," "Shadows and Citizens," and "A Global Measure."
box 4, item V012-M to V014-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 3 VHS cassettes
box 6, item V012-U to V014-U

Viewing copies

Physical Description: 3 VHS cassettes
 

Gilroy, Paul. "Elements of Post-Colonial Melancholia" 2002 May 13, 14, 16

Scope and Content Summary

Comprises three lectures: "Living with Difference," "Human Rights and the Racial Nomos," and "Race is Ordinary."
 

Archival originals

Physical Description: 3 DVDs.
 

Viewing copies

Physical Description: 3 DVDs.
 

Harvey, David. "Geographical Knowledges / Political Powers" 2005 May 16, 17, 18

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures.
box 4, item D016-M to D018-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 3 DVDs
box 6, item V016-U to V018-U

Viewing copies

Physical Description: 3 VHS cassettes
 

Asad, Talal. "Thinking About Suicide Bombing" 2006 May 15-17

Scope and Content Summary

Comprises three lectures: "Terrorism,"Suicide Terrorism," and "Horror and Suicide Terrorism."
box 10, folder 4, disk 006-A to 008-A

Archival originals

Physical Description: 3 DVDs.
box 10, folder 4, disk 006-U to 008-U

Viewing copies

Physical Description: 3 DVDs.
box 10, folder 4

Bibliography

 

Grosz, Elizabeth. "Chaos, Territory, Art" 2007 May 7, 8, 10

Scope and Contents note

Comprises 3 lectures.
box 4, item D019-M to D021-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 3 DVDs
box 6, item V019-U to V021-U

Viewing copies

Physical Description: 3 VHS cassettes
 

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. "The Hegelian Lord and Colonial Bondsman: Literature and the Politics of Knowing" 2010 May 17, 19, 21

Scope and Content Summary

Comprises three lectures.
box 10, folder 3, disk 003-A to 005-A

Archival originals

Physical Description: 3 DVDs.
box 10, folder 3, disk 003-U to 005-U

Viewing copies

Physical Description: 3 DVDs.
box 10, folder 3

Bibliography

 

Morton, Timothy. "Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Ecognosis" 2014 May 21, 22, 23

Scope and Content Summary

Comprises two lectures and three Powerpoint presentations. No recording was made of Morton's first lecture on May 21st. The Powerpoint presentation that accompanied the lecture has been preserved and provided.
 

Archival originals

 

Lecture Powerpoint presentations

 

Mamdani, Mahmood. "Studying Trans-African Slaveries: Pitfalls of the Atlantic Model" 2021 November 17-19

 

Other conferences and lectures Series 3. 1988-2011

Access

Access to duplicating masters is restricted; where they do not already exist, viewing copies must be made before use.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains audio and video recordings of other conferences and lectures organized by CTI and held at UCI. It also contains recordings of reading groups' discussions, lectures given by UCI critical theorists at other universities, and conferences organized by CTI in cooperation with other UCI departments.

Series Arrangement

This series is arranged alphabetically by type of event, then chronologically within each type.
 

Conferences organized by CTI at UCI

 

Derrida / Deleuze: Psychoanalysis, Territoriality, Politics

Biographical/Historical note

Conference organized by Gabriele Schwab and coordinated by Erin Ferriss, Lisa Ness, and Jay Haile.
box 8, folder 3

Printed flier, event program, and other materials

 

Derrida / Translating / Derrida exhibit, opening remarks by curator, Dragan Kujundzic 2002 April 12

box 4, item V022-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
box 6, item V022-U

Viewing copy

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Malabou, Catherine. "Polymorphism Never Will Pervert Childhood" 2002 April 12

box 4, item V023-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
box 6, item V023-U

Viewing copy

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

"Minoritarian Politics / Literature and Film" presentations 2002 April 13

box 4, item V024-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
box 6, item V024-U

Viewing copy

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Derrida, Jacques. "The Transcendental 'Stupidity' ('Bêtise') of Man and the becoming-animal according to Deleuze" 2002 April 13

box 4, item V025-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
box 7, item V025-U

Viewing copy

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Eisenmann, Peter. "Architecture and the Problem of the Weak Image" 1989 April 12

box 9, item A055-A to A056-A

Archival originals

box 3, item A055-M to A056-M

Duplicating originals

Physical Description: 2 audiocassettes.
box 9, item A055-U to A056-U

Listening copies

 

Benjamin, Jessica. "Sympathy for the Devil: Notes on Sexuality and Aggression" 1989 May 3

box 3, item A057-A to A058-U

Archival originals

Physical Description: 2 audiocassettes
box 3, item A057-M to A058-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 2 audiocassettes
box 3, item A057-U to A058-U

Listening copies

Physical Description: 2 audiocassettes
 

Haraway, Donna. "A Companion Species Manifesto" 2003 January 15

box 4, item V026-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette.
 

Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid. "Cutting Off Mediation: Agamben as Master Thinker" 2004 March 2

box 4, item V027-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Other recordings

Scope and Contents note

Includes various discussion groups, conferences, and paper presentations held at UCI. Also includes events held at other venues.
 

Carroll, David. "Community after Devastation" 1988 November 16

box 3, item A057-A to A058-A

Archival originals

Physical Description: 2 audiocassettes
box 3, item A060-M to A062-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 3 audiocassettes
box 3, item A057-U to A058-U

Listening copies

Physical Description: 2 audiocassettes
 

Discussion session on Karl Marx's German Ideology 1988 November 11

box 9, item A059-A, A067-A

Archival originals

Physical Description: 2 audiocassettes
box 3, item A059-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
box 9, item A059-U, A067-U

Listening copies

Physical Description: 2 audiocassetes
 

Discussion session 1 on Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment 1988 December 7

box 9, item A063-A, A068-A

Archival originals

box 3, item A063-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
box 9, item A063-U, A068-U

Listening copies

 

Discussion session 2 on Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment 1989 January 11

box 9, item A064-A, A069-A

Archival originals

box 3, item A064-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
box 9, item A064-U, A069-U

Listening copies

 

Duttman, Benjamin 1990 April 30

box 3, item A065-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
 

Unidentified recording undated

box 3, item A066-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
 

Larkin, Brian. "The Secular Machine: Radio and the Materiality of Qur'anic Recitation" 2011 February 9

box 10, folder 1, disk 001-A

Archival original

Physical Description: 1 DVD.
box 10, folder 1, disk 001-U

Viewing copy

Physical Description: 1 DVD.
box 10, folder 1

Flyer

 

Interview with Jean-François Lyotard 1996 April 9

box 4, item V028-M to V029-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 2 VHS cassettes
box 7, item V028-U

Viewing copy

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Edward Said and his Legacy 2003 November 14

Biographical/Historical note

Event held at UCI in memory of Edward Said.
box 5, item V036-M to V040-M

Duplicating masters

Physical Description: 5 VHS cassettes
 

The School of Criticism and Theory, Annual Senior Fellows Conference

Scope and Contents note

The conference was held at Cornell University.
 

Remembrances of Murray Krieger and lecture by Geoffrey Hartman 2001 April 20

Scope and Contents note

Includes dedication of conference to the memory of Krieger and remembrances of Krieger by colleagues, including Jacques Derrida.
box 5, item V030-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Carroll, David. "Memory, Fiction" 2001 April 20

box 5, item V031-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Fish, Stanley. "Holocaust Denial and Academic Freedom" 2001 April 20-21

box 5, item V032-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

J: Around the Work of J. Hillis Miller

Biographical/Historical note

This conference was organized by several academic departments at UCI and directed by Barbara Cohen and Dragan Kujundzic.
 

Keynote address by Jacques Derrida, "Justices." 2003 April 18

box 5, item V034-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
box 7, item V034-U

Viewing copy

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Keynote address by J. Hillis Miller, "J/O[0]" 2003 April 19

box 5, item V035-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
box 7, item V035-U

Viewing copy

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

LaCapra, Dominick. "History, Memory, Trauma" 2001 April 20-21

box 5, item V033-M

Duplicating master

Physical Description: 1 VHS cassette
 

Patel, Geeta. "Impossible Objects? Reading Ismat Chughtai's Fiction" 2011 March 9

box 10, folder 2, disk 002-A

Archival original

Physical Description: 1 DVD.
box 10, folder 2, disk 002-U

Viewing copy

Physical Description: 1 DVD.
box 10, folder 2

Flyer

 

Unprocessed addition 2016 Accession 2016-020 1980-2011

Physical Description: 14.2 Linear Feet(16 boxes)

Access

This unprocessed addition may contain restricted materials. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access. Access to original tapes and digital media is restricted; researchers may request use copies.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This accretion contains mostly paper files documenting the lectures, events, scholars, projects, grants and administration of UCI's Critical Theory Institute. There is information on budget matters, review and planning, Wellek Lecture Series, workshops, and more. It includes audio and video recordings of lectures.
box accn2016-020 001

Box 1 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains Irvine lectures, Globalization volume, misc. projects, and In Security lectures (1995-2004).
box accn2016-020 002

Box 2 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains In Security lectures, Irvine lectures, working group, financials, and Welleks lectures (1996-2006).
box accn2016-020 003

Box 3 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains Wellek lectures, business meetings, official correspondence, director files, misc. lectures (1989-2010).
box accn2016-020 004

Box 4 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains Irvine lectures, misc. seminars and lectures; Wellek lectures and bibliographies (1986-2010).
box accn2016-020 005

Box 5 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains membership files, emails, admin files, D/D project, reviews and annual reports (1993-2005).
box accn2016-020 006

Box 6 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains reviews and reports, budget info, Wellek lectures, memos and correspondence, administrative files, meeting notes, seminars, and member files (1982-2011).
box accn2016-020 007

Box 7 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains business meetings, lectures, grants, fellowships, Welleks, and memos (1988-2010).
box accn2016-020 008

Box 8 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains grants, budgets, PhD, ORU, reviews, lectures, and conferences (1987-2011).
box accn2016-020 009

Box 9 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains Derrida/Deluze, Mbembe, Welleks, Business meeting/admin files, "Poor Theory", and member files/correspondence (1981-2010).
box accn2016-020 010

Box 10 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains Welleks, lectures, Bridging the Gap, summer institute, grants, Globalization, and misc. projects (1980-2010).
box accn2016-020 011

Box 11 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains lectures, correspondence, grants, papers, and Welleks (1987-2011).
box accn2016-020 012

Box 12 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains member files, CTI classes, admin files, emails, Wellek lectures; CDs/DVDs (DIG016-DIG035) and photo memory card (DIG039) (1989-2011).
box accn2016-020 013

Box 13 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains VHS tapes of Wellek and other lectures (2002-2005).
box accn2016-020 014

Box 14 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains cassette tapes and miniDV of lectures; CDs/DVDs (DIG002-DIG015 and DIG036); and photo cards (DIG037-DIG038) (1992-1994).
box accn2016-020 015

Box 15 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains cassette tapes and miniDV of lectures (1988-2004).
box accn2016-020 016

Box 16 1980-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains cassette tapes of lectures (1988-1997).
 

Unprocessed addition 2019 Accession 2019-061 1989-2011

Physical Description: 2.6 Linear Feet(1 records carton, 1 document box, 2 digital media boxes, 1 oversized folder)

Access

This unprocessed addition may contain restricted materials. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access. Access to original tapes and digital media is restricted; researchers may request use copies.

Series Scope and Content Summary

This addition contains audiovisual materials (VHS, audio cassette tapes, DVDs), photographs, and publicity that document the Wellek lecturers.
box accn2019-061 001

Box 1 1989-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains T&F blank contract, fliers and pamphlets, promotional materials, and extra Wellek bibliographies.
box accn2019-061 002

Box 2 1989-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains VHS tapes, cassette tapes, and digital video cassettes of Wellek and other lectures.
box accn2019-061 003

Box 3 1989-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains DVDs of Wellek and other lectures.
box accn2019-061 004

Box 4 1989-2011

Scope and Content Note

This box contains mini audiocassettes and VHS tapes of Wellek lectures.
box FB-004, folder accn2019-061 : 7

OS Folder 1 1989-2011