brdgt | Gender lectures (Reply)

Looks like next week is officially "gender week:"

The Department of the History of Science Spring Colloquia Series 2007, William Coleman Lecture (Sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities): Robert A. Nye (Oregon State University) talks on "Why Sex is Gender (Again)" (May 2, 2007 – 4:00 p.m. ***L150 Chazen Museum***)

Judith Butler
Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Said, Levinas, and the Paradoxes of Universalism

Thursday, May 3, 2007 @ 7:30 PM
Chazen Museum of Art, Room L160

Also, with the "Testimony" Mellon Workshop:

Wednesday, May 2: Primo Levi for the Present
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
6191 Helen C. White Hall, 4.00 PM
Registration Required. All welcome.
RSVP Alastair Hunt, aphunt@wisc.edu

Judith Butler is a pre-eminent American feminist philosopher and cultural theorist. Her books include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990); Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (1993); The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (1997); Excitable Speech (1997); Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000); Hegemony, Contingency, Universality (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek, 2000). In 2004, she published a collection of writings on war's impact on language and thought titled Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning. Her most recent book, Giving an Account of Oneself (2005), considers the partial opacity of the subject, and the relation between critique and ethical reflection. She is currently working on essays pertaining to Jewish philosophy, focusing on pre-Zionist criticisms of state violence. She continues to write on cultural and literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, and sexual politics.