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FREDRIC R. JAMESON, Professor, The Literature Program, Duke University, and  Visiting Professor, Department of Literature, UCSD, will speak on "Lacan  and the Construction of Theory," Tuesday, April 10, 4:00 p.m., at the Cross Cultural Center. Professor Jameson's work on critical theory, European and American literature, film, architecture, and popular culture has had great impact on the current shape of studies in the humanities and social sciences in the U.S. and abroad.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, will present a lecture titled "Is Lacan Anti-Capitalist?" Wednesday, April 18, 4:30 p.m., in the deCerteau Room, 3155 Literature Building. Slavoj Zizek's numerous publications include, most recently, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, and The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway.