Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research
(CIQR -- "seeker")*

OCTOBER 11(TH), 2001

PRESENTATION: BY PROFESSOR ERNESTO LACLAU DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT AND DIRECTOR OF THE DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX, ENGLAND; VISITING PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO

TITLE: THE CONSTRUCTION OF POPULAR IDENTITIES

Professor Laclau's books include: Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory (1977), Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (with Chantal Mouffe, 1985), New Reflections on the Revolution of our Time (1990), Emancipations (1996), Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (with Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek, 2000), The Populist Reason (forthcoming, 2001), and Elusive Universality (forthcoming,2001)

Minutes

.Dr. Ernesto Laclau, an internationally known leader in political theory, spoke to an audience of over a 100 on Thurs. night, Oct. 11 on "The Construction of Popular Identities", and conducted a symposium (25 attended) on Fri. morning, Oct. 12, concerning his paper, "The Politics of Rhetoric." The audience for both events was exuberant about the quality of Laclau's presentation and the high level of the discussion.

Thanks to the efforts of CIQR's Dr. Paul Richer (Psychology) and Duquesne's Public Relations' Office, we now have a brochure for CIQR; due to the efforts of CIQR's graduate assistant, Ms. Jennifer Glassbrenner (Psychology), we now have a CIQR web page, www.ciqr.duq.edu, and a ciqr e-mail address, ciqr@duq.edu. Thanks also to Ms. Jean Schutte (English) for setting up a reading group for Dr. Laclau's symposium paper.