The 27th Annual Gender and Women’s
Studies Student Research Conference is coming up soon! The conference will be
held on Thursday, April 7 in the
Connelly Center. The general schedule for the conference is as follows:
1:00 PM – Welcome
1:10 PM – Session One: Panels – Connelly Meeting
Rooms
2:20 PM – Session Two: Performance Showcase - Connelly
Cinema
3:20 PM – Session Three: Panels - Connelly
Meeting Rooms
4:30 PM – Keynote Address: Lauren Berlant –
Connelly Cinema
The
panels and keynote address are free and open to the public. Lauren Berlant’s
keynote address is titled “On Being in Life without Wanting the World: Rankine, Isherwood, and Dissociative Life.” This
talk is located in a shattered, formally inconsistent, yet intelligible zone
defined by "being in life without wanting the world." Reading with
Claudia Rankine (Don’t Let Me Be Lonely),
the novel and film of A Single Man
(Christopher Isherwood, 1964; Tom Ford, 2009), and Harryette Mullen (Sleeping
with the Dictionary), it describes an aesthetics and a subjectivity shaped
on one side by suicide and on the other by a life drive that is also,
paradoxically, negative, in that it turns toward life by turning away from the
world of injury, negation, and contingency that endures as a defining presence for biopolitically-defined
subjects. It suggests attending to and developing a dissociative poetics.
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