Visiting Scholar

Lisa Wymore

Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Lisa Wymore gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2017.

Lisa Wymore completed her graduate study at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, an Outstanding Achievement Award, and a Moe Family Award for her creativity. After graduating with an M.F.A. in Dance in 1998, she moved to Chicago and continued her career as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She was a faculty member within the Northwestern University Dance Program from 2000 to 2004....

Rocío Zambrana

Professor of Philosophy at University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras
Rocío Zamabrana gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on May 6, 2019. Rocío Zamabrana teaches and writes about the epistemic and historical-material bases of capitalist modernity and its racial/gender order, specifically from decolonial thought and praxis, particularly in the context of financial capitalism in the Caribbean. She is currently writing a book entitled Metamorphosis of Value: Epistemic Protocols in the Longue Durée, which traces the emergence of figures of speculation (economic/racial) endemic to capitalism...

Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher & Cultural Critic
Slavoj Žižek was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2012.

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost...