Gender lectures

[brdgt]

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***)

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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.

Comments

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I read that as "Primo Levi for president!"

I have Levi's The Periodic Table, but I haven't read it yet...

I'm going to try to go to the Butler talk, but I might have a conflict...it would be nice to go to the Chazen museum, though. I've never been.

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

You haven't been to the Chazen?! It's free and they have this exhibit right now. Of course you don't see any of the museum if you go for a talk in the basement...

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

That looks fun! I know, it's awful- it's one of those things I keep telling myself I'll do, and then forgetting to when it's the weekend and I'm trying to think of something to do!

[bilum.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. I'm totally going to start telling people that "sex is the new gender".

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

Heh, "sex is the new gender is the new pink!"

[wyoluvr.livejournal.com]

dammit, i wanted to see Butler! ::plots::