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HONORING EVE: JANET HALLEY DELIVERS THIRD ANNUAL EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK LECTURE
Professor Halley’s lecture on January 31 was introduced by J. Keith Vincent and Erin Murphy of the Boston University Gender + Sexuality Studies Group, which organized the event. Speaking to a large audience, Halley gave a fascinating account of her concept of “governance feminism” and of Sedgwick’s influence on her thinking. A lively discussion followed. A video of the complete event is available here.
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T MEYERHOFF JOINS THE WEBSITE PROJECT
T, a friend and former student of Eve Sedgwick, is now working with H. A. Sedgwick on this website. Last summer T began exploring about how the site is structured, and thinking of ways it could eventually be expanded. “I continue to learn new and surprising things about Eve, which is a lot of fun,” T said, “and it’s gratifying to help make archival material available to people who are interested.” In addition to working on the EKS website, T teaches online courses at CUNY, is a co-chair of the Text Textile Texture Studio, and is writing a doctoral dissertation, tentatively titled Affordances in the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. If you have questions about the website, please feel free to send them to T at info@evekosofskysedgwick.net.
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FEBRUARY 14, 2013: “TENDENCIES AT TWENTY” SYMPOSIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK
The Centre for Modern Studies at the University of York has announced that it will be hosting an inter-disciplinary symposium “to celebrate queer history month, Valentine’s Day, and the 20th anniversary of the publication, in 1993, of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s groundbreaking queer-theoretical text Tendencies." Visit Tendencies at Twenty for more information.
Update: Texts of symposium presentations are now available on the website.
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NEW BOOK-ARTS GROUP INSPIRED BY SEDGWICK
Students of Eve Sedgwick’s at the CUNY Graduate Center have formed a group, chartered by the Doctoral Students’ Council, to practice some of the book-arts presented in Sedgwick’s unique course, “How To Do Things With Words and Other Materials”. The Text Textile Texture Studio (or 3Text Studio), as the group is called, takes its inspiration from the original classes, as well as the exhibition that was part of the 2010 Spanking and Poetry conference. 3Text Studio has held events for making accordion books, hexaflexagon books, articulated dolls, and other activities. Studio events are open to members and friends of the Graduate Center community as well as graduate students from other institutions.
“Eve was incredibly generous — setting up her office as a fully-stocked studio for students in the department to use. When that closed, many of us wanted not only to continue doing the work ourselves, but to help other people discover how satisfying and inspiring it can be,” said Annie Cranstoun, co-chair of 3Text. You can see some of the work that has emerged from the Studio on their website.
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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.