http://www.egs.edu/ Lecture with Avital Ronell and Judith Butler at European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies department, focusing on contemporaneity of philosophy. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland 2006

Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and an American feminist and post-structuralist philosopher interested in feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, ethics, zionism, israel, oppression, academic freedom and cultural narrative. Judith Butler is the author of Giving An Account of Oneself; Undoing Gender; Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence; Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek); Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death; The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection; Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative; Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"; Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France.

Avital Ronnell, is a Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University. Her research interests include literary and other discourses, feminism; philosophy, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and performance art. She is the author of The Test Drive (2005), Stupidity (2003), Stupidity; The Test Drive (2001), French translation forthcoming by Galilee Press, France, The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989), Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986/1993), and Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millenium (1994)