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RECIPIENTS OF THE 2026-2027 EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK TRAVEL GRANTS ANNOUNCED
The 2026 recipients of the Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Travel Grant for research in Eve’s archive at the Sallie Bingham Center have been announced. They are:
Rachel Haines, Graduate Student, University of Virginia, “Close Reading as Queer Reading: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s ‘kind of formalism’”
Jennifer Hamilton, Faculty, University of New England, Australia, “Exploring the Relationship Between Queer Theory, Buddhism, and Textile Art in Sedgwick’s Body of Work”
Samuel Rutherford, Faculty, University of Glasgow, “Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, Transmasculinity and the History of Queer Ideas”
Suzanne Scanlon, Faculty, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “In Time, a novel”
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2026-2027 EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK TRAVEL GRANT APPLICATIONS DUE 2/27/26
The Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Travel Grant is administered through Duke University and is designed to support in-person research using the Sallie Bingham Center’s collection of the Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Papers. Sedgwick Travel Grant recipients will be asked to submit a brief report of their grant-supported activities at the conclusion of the grant cycle.
For more details about the application process and timeline, please see the Rubenstein Library’s main travel grant page. The deadline to apply for a 2026-2027 Travel Grant is February 27, 2026.
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BOSTON UNIVERSITY'S FOURTEENTH ANNUAL SEDGWICK LECTURE
Professor Kadji Amin will deliver the Fourteenth Annual Sedgwick Lecture at Boston University on April 14, 2026. Titled “Queens of Stigma: Trans Queens and the Class Project of Queer Theory,” Dr. Amin’s talk “puts queer theoretical work on shame into conversation with Esther Newton’s foundational Mother Camp and [Amin’s] own research on the oral histories of queens of the 1960s and 1970s to argue that the undisputed twentieth-century queer icon of shame-creativity was the queen.”
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AN "OPEN MESH OF POSSIBILITIES" SYMPOSIUM AVAILABLE ONLINE
The February 26, 2025 opening symposium for the “Open Mesh of Possibilities” exhibit at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture is now available to view online here.
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TRAVEL GRANT RECIPIENT DAVID SEITZ ON WORKING WITH EVE'S ARCHIVE
Fung’s card to Sedgwick. Courtesy of David Seitz
David K. Seitz, associate professor of cultural geography, Harvey Mudd College, was a 2024-2025 recipient of an Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Research Travel Grant supported by the Foundation. He writes of a serendipitous find in the archive:
I came to the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library under the auspices of the Sallie Bingham Center with a particular interest in Sedgwick’s attention to questions of race, class, and empire. Although I certainly imagined that such questions might come up in her correspondence with Richard Fung, the acclaimed Chinese-Trinidadian-Canadian queer experimental filmmaker, I had not anticipated the place of the panda in such exchanges.
More on Seitz’s time in the archive here.