Gender lectures
Apr. 25th, 2007 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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 |
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.