“The Power of Evil and the Power of Love” Topic of April 11 NYU Lecture

Leo Bersani, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a visiting scholar at New York University, will deliver NYU’s ninth annual Irving H. Jurow Lecture, “The Power of Evil and the Power of Love,” on Tues., April 11, at 5:30 p.m. in NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East). The event is free and open to the public. Please call 212.998.8100 for more information.

Professor Bersani was until recently Class of 1950 Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many articles and books on modern French literature and film and on aesthetics and psychoanalysis. These include: Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity; Homos; Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais; Baudelaire and Freud; and Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art.

• Who: Leo Bersani, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and visiting scholar at New York University
• What: NYU’s ninth annual Irving H. Jurow Lecture, “The Power of Evil and the Power of Love”
• When: Tues., April 11, 5:30 p.m.
• Where: NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East)

Reporters interested in attending the lecture must contact James Devitt, Office of Public Affairs, at (212) 998-6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.

The Irving H. Jurow Lecture is the premier endowed annual event at NYU’s College of Arts and Science. It honors the memory of one of New York University’s most distinguished and most generous alumni, Irving H. Jurow, and brings to the university community, under the auspices of the College, leading intellectual and cultural figures.