The DeRoy Lecture Series 2012-2013
Presents Two Events with
Sianne Ngai
Department of English, Stanford
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
of Lars von Trierʼs Melancholia (2011),
with Sianne Ngai, Jonathan Flatley, and Steven Shaviro
Thursday, September 20
3:00 pm
English Department
Lecture Room 10302
5057 Woodward
LECTURE: “THE ZANY SCIENCE:
Gender and Post-Fordist Performance”
Friday, September 21
3:00 pm
English Department
Lecture Room 10302
5057 Woodward
Sianne Ngai is Professor of English at Stanford University. She is the author of Ugly Feelings (2007).
Her new book, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, is forthcoming this fall from Harvard
Join us for a screening of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia
Tuesday, September 18 at 6:30 pm in 326 State Hall
Department of English, Wayne State University