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Kenneth J. Surin

Kenneth J. Surin

Professor Emeritus of Literature
Literature
ksurin@duke.edu
Box 90670, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0670
101F Science Building, Duke East Campus, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances

‘Was Deleuze a Materialist?’ · January 7, 2012 Lecture University of California, San Diego
Was Marx Wrong? · January 7, 2012 Lecture Colwinston Philosophical Society, WALES
‘Alain Badiou’s Militant’ · January 7, 2012 Lecture University of Leuven, Belgium
‘A Reassessment of Liberation Theology’ · January 7, 2012 Lecture University of Leuven, Belgium
‘Marx for the 21st Century' · January 7, 2012 Lecture Malaysian Social Forum
‘Financial Capitalism Transforms Social Classes' · January 7, 2012 Lecture Malaysian Social Forum
The Strange Fate of Property in Neoliberal Times · September 1, 2011 Lecture International Conference on Property and Aesthetics, Shanghai International Studies University
Assessing the Thought of Michel Foucault · September 1, 2011 Lecture Fudan University, China
Assessing the Thought of Pierre Bourdieu · September 1, 2011 Lecture East China Normal University
A week of daily seminars for grad students and faculty on globalization theory · August 1, 2011 Lecture National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Assessing the Thought of Gilles Deleuze · August 1, 2011 Lecture Shanghai Jiaotong University
Assessing the Thought of Michel Foucault · August 1, 2011 Lecture Shanghai Normal University
Panel Organizer and Respondent · June 1, 2011 Lecture International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Conceptualizing Trauma, but what about Asia? · April 1, 2011 Lecture Shanghai International Studies University
Becoming Animal · March 1, 2011 Lecture 20-21st Century French Studies Conference, University of San Francisco
Can there be a notion of Absolute Value? · March 1, 2011 Lecture Sino-British Forum on Marxist Aesthetics, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Revisiting Empire: some Small Reservations and Much Gratitude · March 1, 2011 Lecture Shanghai Jiaotong University
Panelist, ‘Black Mountain College: the last American Avant-Garde? · January 5, 2009 Lecture UNC Asheville
Panelist, The Socius and Life · January 5, 2009 Lecture University of Minnesota
Panelist, Rethinking Marxism Conference · January 5, 2009 Lecture UMass, Amherst
Panelist, The Common and the Forms of the Commune: Alternative Social Imaginaries · January 5, 2009 Lecture Duke University
Panelist, ‘Immanence and Life’ · January 5, 2009 Lecture University of Cologne, Germany

Service to the Profession

Critical Research in Religion · 2012 Editorial Activities Sage Publications
Manuscript Reviewer, Stanford University Press, · January 1, 2011 Editorial Activities
Manuscript Reviewer, University of Minnesota Press, · January 1, 2011 Editorial Activities
Manuscript Reviewer, Verso Press, · January 1, 2011 Editorial Activities
Manuscript Reviewer, Edinburgh University Press, · January 1, 2011 Editorial Activities
Manuscript Reviewer, Fordham University Press, · January 1, 2011 Editorial Activities
Member : World Economics Association · 2011 Committee Service
New Slant: Duke Press Series in Religion and Politics : Co-Editor · 2009 Editorial Activities