Events Archive: 2007-2008
- "Anxiety, Urgency, Outrage, Hope ... A Conference on Political Feeling"
- "Learning Nothing: Bad Education"
- Jane Gallop, "Sedgwick: Queer Moments, Twisted Temporalities, 'or even just reading and writing'"
- 25th Anniversary Celebration of John D'Emilio's Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
- Dont Rhine, "Organization the Silence" AIDS. Art. Activism. Audio.
Anxiety, Urgency, Outrage, Hope … A Conference on Political Feeling
October 19th and 20th, 2007
A collaborative of Public Feelings groups—housed in New York, Austin, and Chicago—hosted an event at the University of Chicago called, “Anxiety, Urgency, Outrage, Hope . . . A Conference on Political Feeling.”
Co-sponsored locally by the Center for Gender Studies, the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project, and Feel Tank Chicago, this conference coordinated ongoing intellectual activities around understanding, curating, and fomenting public feelings—feelings about politics, publicness, social belonging, and intimacy among strangers and the people you sense you know.
“Anxiety, Urgency, Outrage, Hope . . . A Conference on Political Feeling” brought together a disciplinarily wide range of scholarly work on affect, emotion, political agency, and political/aesthetic imaginaries. Speakers included: Fred Moten, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Lisa Duggan, José Estaban Muñoz, Tavia Nyong’o, Lily Cho, Rebecca Zorach, Debbie Gould, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Carel Rowe, Ann Cvetkovich, Katie Stewart, Neville Hoad, Ann Reynolds, and Sam Baker.
Lee Edelman, “Learning Nothing: Bad Education”
November 8, 2007
CGS, LGSP and MAPH sponsored a lecture by Lee Edelman, “Learning Nothing: Bad Education.”
Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature and Chair of the Department of English at Tufts University. His books include ’’Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory’’ (1994) and ’’No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive’’ (2004). His current project, tentatively titled ’’Bad Education,’’ examines sexuality, aesthetics, and the value of the humanities.
For more information about Edelman’s work, also see his article in SAQ, July 2007, titled "After Sex?: On Writing Since Queer Theory."
Jane Gallop, “Sedgwick: Queer Moments, Twisted Temporalities, ‘or even just
reading and writing’”
February 7, 2008
Critical Inquiry and LGSP cosponsored Professor Gallop’s presentation, “Sedgwick: Queer Moments, Twisted Temporalities, ‘or even just reading and writing.’” Gallop read and discussed texts of Eve Sedgwick, to consider the queer temporality of writing and the temporality of queer writing.
Jane Gallop is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her publications include “Living With His Camera with Dick Blau,”“Anecdotal Theory,” “Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment,” “Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory,” and “Reading Lacan.”
25th Anniversary Celebration of John D’Emilio’s Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
March 16, 2008
A reception and panel discussion on Sunday, March 16, at 4 pm, at Gerber/Hart Library, honored pioneering historian John D’Emilio on the 25th anniversary of the publication of his Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. The event was co- sponsored by Gerber/Hart and the University of Chicago’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop.
The panelists were:
- Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
- Ramon A. Gutierrez, Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor in History, University of Chicago
- Michael Sherry, Richard W. Leopold Professor of History, Northwestern University.
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, published in March 1983 by the University of Chicago Press, was the first academic monograph on U.S. LGBT history, is widely regarded as a cornerstone of LGBT Studies, and ranks number five on the Publishing Triangle’s list of the 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books.
John D’Emilio is Professor of History and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dont Rhine, “Organizing the Silence” AIDS. Art. Activism. Audio.
April 11, 2008
Sponsored by the Affective Publics Reading Group and LGSP, Dont Rhine of Ultra-red, a Los Angeles audio art/activism collective, showed and discussd his performance/installationSILENT|LISTEN, a record of AIDS/HIV in North America.
Dont Rhine co-founded the Los Angeles-based audio art collective Ultra-red in 1994. Through radio broadcasts, performances, sound installations, publications, and street actions, Ultra-red blends sound art and electronic music with political organizing. Ultra-red draws on Conceptualism, Latin American popular education, and cultural analysis to develop projects on the politics of migrant struggles, gentrification, education, HIV/AIDS and queer sexuality.