From Kritika Kultura via my former teacher Dr. Eduardo Calasanz :

We would like to invite you to the lecture of Dr. David Lloyd,
Professor of English, University of Southern California (USC) at the
Kritika Kultura Lecture Series. His lecture is slated on July 22,
2008, Tuesday, 1:30-3:00 p.m., at the Gonzaga Function Room A (Blue
Bag Cafe), 2nd floor, Gonzaga Bldg.

Titled "Time Passante: From Forensic to Interrogation Modernity," his
lecture will be based partly on his manuscripts for a book that he is
writing.  It will discuss Walter Benjamin on Baudelaire,
Bobby Sands's prison ballads and contemporary techniques of in-depth
interrogation. It will also draw on the experience of Irish political
prisoners to explore the way in which interrogation has become a
generalized mode of subjectification in late modernity, as opposed to
the forensic mode of earlier periods.

Also scheduled is the staged reading of his play, "The Press," on July
25, 2008, 4:45-6:30 p.m., old Comm Studio across from the Covered Courts.
The staged reading is directed by Prof. Ricardo Abad with Dr. Victor
Merriman, a noted Irish director who had staged the play in Dublin.
Dr. Merriman is head of the Drama Department of Hope Liverpool
University and will guest-edit a special issue of Kritika Kultura on
Irish theater. A private reading is slated to be held on July 24,
Thursday, 4:30-6pm, same venue.

David Lloyd, Professor of English at the University of Southern
California, is the author of Nationalism and Minor Literature (1987);
Anomalous States (1993); Ireland After History (2000) and Irish Times:
Essays on the History and Temporality of Irish Modernity (forthcoming
2008). He is currently at work on two further books, A History of the
Irish Orifice: the Irish Body and Modernity and a study of Samuel
Beckett?s visual aesthetics.  He has co-published several other books:
Culture and the State, co-authored with Paul Thomas (1997), The
Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997), with Lisa Lowe,
and The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (1991), with Abdul
JanMohamed. A poet, playwright and noted scholar, he is a member of
the International Board of Editors of Kritika Kultura, the MLA-indexed
internationally peer-reviewed bi-annual online journal published by
the English Department. His major publications easily mark Prof. Lloyd
as an important intellectual in literary and cultural studies today.

Should you decide to send any of your students to these events,
kindly call up the English Department to confirm seat reservation with Rea
or Ria, our graduate assistants (426-6120).

Sincerely,

KRITIKA KULTURA