Organized by students, this series provides an opportunity to bring in acclaimed/international guests to address SPT students. Over the years, Aijaz Ahmad, Brian Massumi, Gayatri Spivak, Jessica Benjamin, Doris Lessing, Laura Mulvey, Jane Gallop, and many others have visited.

Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film, co-authored with Michael Ryan, Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations (with Steven Best), Television and the Crisis of Democracy, The Persian Gulf TV War, Media Culture, and The Postmodern Turn (with Steven Best).