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JANUARY 31, 2013: THIRD ANNUAL EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK MEMORIAL LECTURE AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
The Boston University Gender + Sexuality Studies Group has announced that Janet Halley, Harvard Law School’s Royall Professor of Law, will give the annual Sedgwick Memorial Lecture: “When Feminism Rules: Assessing Governance Feminism Projects from the International to the Local.” (Click on the image for further information.) Halley’s most recent book is Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism. Lauren Berlant wrote: “This is a wide-ranging, vastly original, knowing, and challenging book; there is nothing like it in any of the antinormative challenges of the last two decades.” We are very much looking forward to Halley’s lecture.
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EVE'S FIRST PUBLICATION?
Following a clue on the girlhistorian blog, Jane Hu, writing for Awl, has tracked down a book review written for Seventeen Magazine by Eve Kosofsky when she was 13. The review appeared in Seventeen’s “Curl up and read” column. Eve’s friend Josh Wilner remarks, “What I enjoy most is the way Eve figures out exactly what the features of a chatty sophisticated literary-review for Seventeen are – and nails it.” This is the first publication of Eve’s that we know of. If anyone knows of anything earlier, we’d love to hear about it .
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SARAH IS MOVING ON
After three years working with Hal Sedgwick developing this website and cataloguing Eve’s archive, I am sad to announce I have moved on to other projects. In January, I began managing Ugly Duckling Presse, a nonprofit poetry and art publisher in Brooklyn, and I will also have a book of my own coming out from St. Martin’s Press in Spring of 2013. It has been an absolute honor to work with Eve’s writing and art, and the experience and proximity to her work has colored my life in a thousand unexpected and often magical ways. I am so grateful for the opportunities that Hal (and Eve’s many extraordinary, brilliant, and unfailingly kind friends) have brought into my life. The archive will continue in great hands, and I’m so excited to see what the future brings.
—Sarah McCarry
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THE WEATHER IN PROUST READING GROUP AT THE GRADUATE CENTER
The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY, is hosting a monthly spring reading group (February 14-May 15) focused on the first section of Eve Sedgwick’s book The Weather in Proust. The first section, approximately three-quarters of the book, comprises Sedgwick’s work on and around Proust. Sedgwick’s rich and complex view of Proust emerges as she approaches his writing through discussions of topics such as Neoplatonism, Buddhism, Theory of Mind, autism, the poet C P Cavafy, Melanie Klein, and Sedgwick’s own artwork, to name a few. The group will be led by H A Sedgwick and Joshua Wilner, and facilitated by a series of volunteers. Attendance at all five meetings is highly desirable, and participants will be asked to take an active part in the discussion. Enrollment is limited, so please register as soon as possible.
For more information and to register, see The Graduate Center website
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THE WEATHER IN PROUST REVIEWED IN PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND THE LA REVIEW OF BOOKS
From the LA Review of Books:
“But while a great deal here is familiar — indeed, many passages from the above books resurface, verbatim, throughout these pages — there is nothing rehashed about the project itself. To the contrary: For a writer whose prose (and thought) could often be astoundingly dense, circuitous, and lovingly (if sometimes frustratingly) devoted to articulating the farthest reaches of complexity, the overall effect of The Weather in Proust is one of great clarification and distillation. Indeed, for those unfamiliar with Sedgwick’s work, I would recommend starting with The Weather in Proust and moving backward from there, as the volume offers an enjoyably compressed, coherent, and retrospective portrait of Sedgwick’s principal preoccupations.”
From Publishers Weekly:
“This posthumous collection of Sedgwick’s essays presents readers with a glittering kaleidoscope of ‘capacious concerns.’ Sedgwick, a pioneer in queer studies, shines as she contemplates Proust, textile art, and mortality in language that is challenging and exhilarating.”