[csaa-forum] Judith Butler in Australia

[Cristyn Davies]

Please circulate widely:

JUDITH BUTLER WILL BE VISITING AUSTRALIA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN JUNE 2005.
THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR HER SPEAK.

SHE WILL BE GIVING A PUBLIC LECTURE IN SYDNEY ON JUNE 18TH, HOSTED BY THE
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY, AND CALLED 'GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF ONESELF'.

BUTLER IS MOST FAMOUS FOR HER BOOK "GENDER TROUBLE". HER MOST RECENT WORK
PUBLISHED IN HER TWO 2004 BOOKS "PRECARIOUS LIFE" AND "UNDOING GENDER"
PRESENT A PROFOUND DEVELOPMENT OF THAT EARLIER WORK THAT WILL FIND
RESONANCES WITH MANY SCHOLARS IN A RANGE OF DISCIPLINES STRUGGLING WITH THE
ISSUES OF THE 21ST CENTURY.

WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO MAKE HER PUBLIC LECTURE AN IMPORTANT EVENT ON YOUR
CALENDAR.

ATTACHED IS A FLYER WITH THE DETAILS OF HER TALK. PLEASE PRINT THIS OFF AND
DISPLAY IT IN YOUR PLACE OF WORK AND FORWARD IT TO ANYONE YOU THINK WOULD BE
INTERESTED.


THE LECTURE IS SPONSORED BY: College of Arts, Education, and Social Sciences
<http://www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/caess>  and the Narrative, Discourse,
and Pedagogy research concentration, University of Western Sydney

ABSTRACT
The poststructuralist critique of the subject has been criticized for
offering only an opaque, divided, or incoherent theory of the moral subject.
Can one assume responsibility and give an account of oneself if one is
partially opaque to oneself, inconsistent or divided? Butler suggests here
that the opacity of the subject is a necessary dimension of it sociality,
and that the emergence of the subject depends on social relations and social
norms that are never fully thematizable. As a consequence, the ways in which
we fail to be able to give a full account of ourselves refer to those
dimensions of relationality that are crucial to any ethical philosophy.  In
effect, Butler here tries not only to offer an ethical philosophy for
poststructuralism, but suggests that any account of oneself requires a turn
to social theory and critique. Otherwise, moral philosophy becomes ethical
violence.


VENUE: City Recital Hall Angel Place, SYDNEY

TIME: 2pm

TICKETS: Available from Monday 18th April, $25, and $15 concession

Online www.cityrecitalhall.com <http://www.cityrecitalhall.com/>

Box office: 61 2 8256 2222

Cristyn Davies
Research Assistant
Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy Research Concentration
University of Western Sydney-Bankstown 
AUSTRALIA
Ph. 61 2 9772 6784
Fax. 61 2 9772 6738
Email: c.m.davies at uws.edu.au




























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