[csaa-forum] REMINDER: Judith Butler's public lecture at the City Recital Hall Angel Place Saturday 18th June Sydney, AUSTRALIA

[Cristyn Davies]

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

Book to attend Judith Butler's public lecture: 
http://www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/caess/conf
sponsored by CAESS and NDP research concentration



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From: Cristyn Davies
Sent: Sun 6/12/2005 9:10 AM
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Subject: REMINDER: Judith Butler's public lecture at the City Recital Hall Angel Place  Saturday 18th June
 


College of Arts, Education, and Social Sciences and the Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy Research Concentration present: 

Giving an Account of Oneself—A public lecture  by Judith Butler

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984. Professor Butler has published widely, contributing to philosophy, feminist and queer theory. She has most recently published a collection of writings on war's impact on language and thought entitled Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (2004), and also, a collection of essays on gender and sexuality entitled Undoing Gender (2004). Professor Butler's public lecture will be her most recent thinking on 'Giving an account of oneself'. 

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. 

Date: 
Saturday 18th June 2005
Time: 
2 pm. The presentation, including question time, will conclude at approximately 4 pm. 
Tickets : 
Adults: $25 
Concessions: $15. 
Concessions available to Pensioners, Seniors, full time students, children, and unemployed. Eligibility for concession may be required to collect tickets.

Online 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

Book to attend Judith Butler's public lecture: 
http://www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/caess/conf
sponsored by CAESS and NDP research concentration