Kenyon Event Flyer

Three Events Poster (PDF)

THREE EVENTS 

Kenyon College ~ March 18 & 19, 2026

Kenyon College Welcomes Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Yale University & Rita Felski, John Stewart Bryan Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
 

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Theory of Trump Poster (PDF)

THEORY OF TRUMP

A lecture by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University


Thursday, March 19, 4:10pm ~ Community Foundation Theater, Gund Gallery

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Can Theory Save the World Poster (PDF)

Can Theory Save the World? A Conversation with Rita Felski and Jeffrey Alexander on Criticism, Culture, and Public Life

Wednesday, March 18, 7:30pm, Archon Auditorium

In today’s public debates, “theory” has come to represent a kind of academic way of thinking that is too tendentious, too impractical, too political, and too condescending. What value does the exercise of theory give us as learners who are also members of the public? Is there another way to approach democratic life in a cynical age instead of endless critique?