{"id":856,"date":"2021-01-14T16:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=856"},"modified":"2021-01-14T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:18:00","slug":"the-adorno-and-identity-seminars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"The Adorno and Identity Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jon Catlin<\/a>, Fumi Okiji<\/a>, and Eric Oberle<\/a> have written to us asking us to post about a series of seminars they will be curating around Adorno and Identity. More details are below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook event:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/689345985085105<\/a>

Negative dialectics, the critical theorist Theodor Adorno wrote, \u201cis suspicious of all identity.\u201d The concept of identity and its negations\u2014nonidentity and negative identity\u2014are woven throughout Adorno\u2019s wide-ranging corpus. This interdisciplinary series of virtual seminars on \u201cAdorno and Identity,\u201d convened by Jonathon Catlin (Princeton), Eric Oberle (Arizona State), and Fumi Okiji (Berkeley), revisits Adorno\u2019s thought at a moment in which political, cultural, legal, and psychological notions of identity have expanded relevance and vexed public meaning. Across these sessions, scholars from diverse fields will return to Adorno\u2019s theoretical framework in order to collectively develop more robust notions of identity, nonidentity, and negative identity, and to advance critical theory by connecting Adorno\u2019s work to broader conversations about identity in adjacent fields, including the study of race, gender, sexuality, and technology.

This series of virtual seminars will meet on Zoom every two weeks over the course of the spring 2021 semester, beginning Friday, Jan. 29 (1\u20133pm Eastern US time). Each session will consist of two parts: three presentations of approximately 15 minutes each, followed by an hour of discussion amongst the participants and a public audience. On our\u00a0Facebook event page<\/a>\u00a0you will find our current schedule. Please email\u00a0jonathon.catlin@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0to be kept up to date with sessions through our email list. A Zoom link and outlines of the presentations will be provided on our website prior to the first session.

Current schedule:<\/strong>

Introduction to Adorno and Identity: Adorno, Du Bois, and negative identity (Jan. 29, 2021, 1\u20133pm EST)
<\/strong>Jonathon Catlin, Eric Oberle, and Fumi Okiji

Rethinking Adorno and race, part 1: Revisiting Du Bois and critical race theory (Feb. 12)
<\/strong>Corey D. B. Walker \u2013 \u201cThe Wound of Blackness: Thinking Adorno and the Limits of Critical Theory\u201d
Oshrat Silberbusch \u2013 \u201c\u2018The World Thus Darkly Through the Veil\u2019: Reflections on Identity (Thinking) with Du Bois and Adorno\u201d
Charlotte Baumann \u2013 Adorno, Suffering & Critical Race Theory: Or, The Non-identical & the System

Rethinking Adorno and Race, part 2: Freedom through fugitivity and negation (Feb. 26)
<\/strong>Henrike Kohpei\u00df \u2013 \u201cIdentity Produced by Negation: Freedom after Theodor Adorno and Saidiya Hartman\u201d
Romy Opperman \u2013 \u201cCritical Black Feminist Theory\u201d
Anders Bartonek \u2013 \u201cMarronage and Non-identity\u201d

Rethinking Adorno and race, part 3: Fanon, racisms, and the question of praxis (March 12)
<\/strong>Martin Shuster \u2013 \u201cAdorno and Fanon on Antisemitism\u201dSid Simpson and Ryan Curnow \u2013 \u201cStripping Away the Masks of Identity: Adorno and Fanon\u2019s Negative Dialectics\u201d

Adorno and the politics of non-identity (March 26)
<\/strong>Frank M\u00fcller \u2013 \u201cReflections on the Politics of Nonidentity\u201d
Ariane Mintz \u2013 \u201cUnveiling the \u2018Individualistic Veil\u2019: On Narcissistic Reactions to Capitalist Mutilations\u201d
Claudia Leeb \u2013 \u201cThe Feminist Subject-in-Outline\u2019s Fight against the Extremist Right\u201d

Adorno and queer dis\/identification (April 9)
<\/strong>Asaf Angermann \u2013 \u201cQueer Utopia and the Incommensurable: Adorno after Mu\u00f1oz\u201d
Kyle Kaplan \u2013 \u201cDear Adorno: On the Limits of Personal and Practical Advice\u201d
Nicole Yokum \u2013 \u201cThe Politics of Avoidance: From Adornian Coldness to Edelmanian Antisociality\u201d

Identity thinking, data, and the politics of algorithmic personalization (April 23)
<\/strong>Moira Weigel \u2013 An Adornian critique of algorithmic identity, machine learning, and personalization
Jerome Clarke \u2013 \u201cBattle of Negroes in a Black Box: Nonidentity and Race Data\u201d
Samir Gandesha \u2013 \u201cAdorno\u2019s Critique of Identity Thinking: Between the Abstract and Concrete\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Catlin, Fumi Okiji, and Eric Oberle have written to us asking us to post about a series of seminars …<\/p>\n

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