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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.
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PROFESSOR JUANA RODRÍGUEZ PRESENTS THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL SEDGWICK LECTURE IN GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Professor Juana María Rodríguez presented the thirteenth annual Sedgwick Lecture in Gender & Sexuality Studies at Boston University on March 27. Dr. Rodríguez is the author of Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex (Duke UP 2023); Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (NYU Press 2014); and Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (NYU Press, 2003).
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AN OPEN MESH OF POSSIBILITIES EXHIBIT ONLINE
“An ‘Open Mesh of Possibilities’: Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive,” which “explores the multifaceted ways in which the writings and artwork of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950 - 2009) bring queerness into life,” is now online. Curated by Katherine Carithers, the exhibit is on display in person at the Sallie Bingham Center at Duke University until August 2, 2025.