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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.
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SPRING 2010 ISSUE OF CRITICISM
The Spring 2010 issue of Criticism (vol. 52 no. 2) is titled “Honoring Eve: A Special Issue on the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.” The special issue grew out of the event Honoring Eve: A Symposium Celebrating the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, which was held on October 31, 2009, at Boston University.
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MARCH 2010 PMLA: REMEMBERING EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
The March 2010 issue of PMLA (Vol. 125, No. 2) includes a section titled “Remembering Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,” which features essays by Laura Doan, Jonathan Goldberg, Annamarie Jagose, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Andrew Parker.