2006-2007 EventsHonoring the Work and Person(s) of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe 1940-2007Friday, March 23, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
His wife, Claire Nancy, will read his last pages. Remarks by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avital Ronell, Jean-Michel Rabate, Shireen Patell, Mark Nichanian, Michaela Kramer, Denis Hollier, Eckart Goebel, Paul Fleming, Patricia Dailey, Stanley Corngold, Susan Bernstein, and Emily Apter, with an unpublished piece by Lacoue-Labarthe. Original musical composition by Jenny Olivia Johnson, in collaboration with Steven Smith. Selections from the film "Proeme de Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe" (2006), and readings from his work. Organized with Columbia University and The Slought Foundation. Please visit The Slought Foundation to listen to an audio recording of some of the remarks. Suzanne Doppelt Presents Her Photography and Fiction Work at Deutsches Haus
Friday, December 1st, 2007, 6:30 p.m.
Suzanne Doppelt's recent publication, RING RANG WRONG contains mock-philosophical meditations on nature and cosmos juxtaposed with abstract photographs. She explores the violence of aesthetics and the traumatism of mimesis.The author will read from her work in French accompanied in English by the American Poet Cole Swensen, who translated the book. The exhibition of approximately forty works includes photographs from this book of text and photos. Introductory Remarks by Professors Eduardo Cadava (Princeton), Avital Ronell (NYU), & Ulrich Baer (NYU)
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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe is considered one of the most important and path-breaking literary critics and philosophers in France. His oeuvre on philosophy, poetry, music, history and thought, and the relation of aesthetics and politics, crossed all sorts of frontiers in the thinking of traumatic events, the Shoah, and philosophical responsibility. 
SUZANNE DOPPELT shares an evening of her work – part exhibition and part reading.