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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.”
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OCTOBER 28, 2010: EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK MEMORIAL LECTURE
Henry Abelove gave the inaugural Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick Memorial Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. His lecture was titled “Gay Liberation Reconsidered.” The Memorial Lecture will be an annual event and came out of the momentum created by the highly successful 2009 symposium in Eve’s honor.
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OCTOBER 1, 2010: FOR BEAUTY IS A SERIES OF HYPOTHESES
Author and scholar Eve Sedgwick was also a devoted and passionate fiber artist. In this lecture, scholar Jason Edwards examined a broad range of Sedgwick’s art works, as the culminating presentation in a series of seminars on Sedgwick’s art.
To date, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is best known as the author of a series of quickly paradigmatic texts on queer and affect theory, including Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Epistemology of the Closet, Tendencies, and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Much less appreciated is the fact that Sedgwick was also a devoted and passionate fiber artist, whose works were shown in exhibitions including Floating Columns/In the Bardo, Bodhisattva Fractal World and Works in Fiber, Paper and Proust. Jason Edwards (Reader in Art History at the University of York and author of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Alfred Gilbert’s Aestheticism: Gilbert Amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater, and Burne-Jones) contextualized her artwork in relation to her better-known literary theoretical and other works on paper.
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SEPTEMBER 2010: JASON EDWARDS SEMINAR SERIES
Jason Edwards, who is currently working on a book focused on Eve’s textile art, led an intimate series of seminars in Eve’s studio and at the Graduate Center. In-depth discussions focused on Eve’s work in “fiber, paper, and Proust” as well as her bookworks, weavings, and panda calendars. The series of seminars culminated in an opportunity for former students to bring and discuss their own work produced in Eve’s book arts classes.