Malynne Sternstein on Love without Hope: Benjamin’s Trials with Surrealism

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Mon Feb 10 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

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SVA, 133 W 21st St | New York, NY

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This talk by cultural theorist Malynne Sternstein weaves Czech surrealism into the urgency of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project.
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BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the Honors Program presents a talk with cultural theorist and University of Chicago professor Malynne Sternstein that weaves Czech surrealism into the urgency of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project.


Malynne Sternstein is Professor Emerita in Slavic languages and literatures and the chair of the Fundamentals: Issues and Texts program at the University of Chicago. Her interests include Czech, Russian and Central European studies; the European avant-garde; semiotic theory; performance theory; gender and sexuality; aesthetic theory (kitsch); and narratology. She is the author of Against Arbitrariness: The Czech Avant-garde and the Subversion of the Symbolic Sign and Toyen: Gender, Obscurity and the Fires of Surrealism. She has been nominated for awards for excellence in both undergraduate and graduate teaching.

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SVA, 133 W 21st St, 133 West 21st Street, Room 101C, New York, United States

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