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THE GOOD ANUS
“The Good Anus: Commentary on Guss’s ‘The Danger of Desire’” will appear in HSGS: Studies in Gender and Sexuality.
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CAVAFY, PROUST, AND THE QUEER LITTLE GODS
“Cavafy, Proust, and the Queer Little Gods” appears in Panagiotis Roilos’s C.P. Cavafy: the Economics of Metonymy. In Eve’s words, the piece investigates “the dozens, scores of miscellaneous beings, tutelary spirits, and what seemed like the most conventional, casual French literary invocations of nymphs and dryads. But among them, they actually generate this world that’s so filled with life-both internal to characters but also all around them.” (From an interview with Michael Snediker.)
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JANUARY 6-9, 2011: 12TH ANNUAL MLA CONVENTION
Three panels at the Modern Language Association Convention in Los Angeles, California will focus on Eve’s work. On Thursday, January 6, at 3:30 p,. Jay Grossman (Northwestern University) will preside over a forum titled “Writing with Eve: The Legacy of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.” Jonathan Goldberg (Emory University) and Michael Moon (Emory University) will deliver a paper titled “Eve’s Future Figures,” and Judith Butler (UC Berkeley) will give a paper titled “Proust and the Life of Desire.” On Friday the 7th at 5:15 pm, Michael Cobb (University of Toronto) will preside over a linked session, “Sedwick’s Endurance: Writing with Loss”; talks will include Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago) and Lee Charles Edelman (Tufts University) on “What Survives?” and José Munoz (NUY) on “Figurations of Experience: Sedgwick with Fisher and Others.” Finally, on Saturday the 8th at 3:30 pm, Emily S. Apter (NYU) will preside over the session “Queer Gothic: The Space-Time of Sedgwick’s Nineteenth Century,” with Andrew C. Parker (Amherst College) presenting “The Age of Frankenstein,” Jane Gallop (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) presenting “Early and Earlier Sedgwick,” and Christopher Nealon (Johns Hopkins University) presenting “Sedgwick, James, and the Inexhaustible.”
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WINTER 2010 ISSUE OF JL&G
The winter 2010 issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender (Vol. 33:1) is a tribute to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, featuring essays by Janet Halley, Katherine M. Franke, Clare Huntington, Susan R. Schmeiser, Philomina Tsoukala, and Darren Rosenblum. This issue was organized by Janet Halley, who is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
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NOVEMBER 4, 2010: MATERIAL CULTURES LECTURE AT YALE
Jason Edwards delivered a lecture at Yale University for the Material Cultures Study Group, whose 2010-11 academic year theme is “Material Cultures and Interiority.” Jason’s lecture, “Interiorising Materiality?: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Patchwork Panels,” focused on Eve’s textile work and developing a new interpretive vocabulary for discussing the intersections of her work in, as she put it, “Fiber, paper, and Proust.”