[csaa-forum] Book launch invite: Judith Butler in Conversation: Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life

[Cristyn Davies]

Invitation to attend the launch of Judith Butler in Conversation: Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life, edited by Bronwyn Davies (New York: Routledge 2007) 

Launched by: Professor Wayne McKenna, Executive Dean of the College of Arts, University of Western Sydney 
Guest speaker: Professor Johanna Wyn, Director of the Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne 
Where: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW 2037 
When: Saturday 1st September 2007 
Time: From 3.30pm 

RSVP: Friday 17th August, via email to Cristyn Davies c.m.davies at uws.edu.au 

Recognition, narration, embodiment, identity, power, ethics, play: so many of the points of departure one associates with the work of Judith Butler flourish in this wonderfully interdisciplinary book. Professor Davies' ingenious editing captures what's beautiful about the best conversations: they are rigorous, focused, yet open to transformative thought. This book is a marvelous exemplum of intellectual collaboration, and a great introduction to and elaboration of key aspects of Judith Butler's work  -Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor of English and Director of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project, University of Chicago

This book brings to life a series of compelling conversations with Butler by academics who use her work to explore the subjective grounds for an ethics of everyday life, based on a relationality that binds us to the Other. The result is a truly inter-disciplinary work of scholarship providing readers with a lively interchange of ideas at the interface between philosophy and other social science and humanities as Butler challenges academics to understand how acknowledging the limits of self-knowledge can serve as an ethics of responsibility.  I thoroughly recommend this book for all academics and students who are interested in the operation of agency and the question of how individuals struggle to account for themselves.  -Johanna Wyn, University of Melbourne

Generous not only with ideas but with unusual forms of relation, Judith Butler in Conversation is like a master class for readers-a brilliant class in applied philosophy, yes, but also in care and truthfulness, in being, becoming, and uttering.-Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center

This inventive book of essays, dialogues, responses and reveries explores the volatile and productive debates that Judith Butler's work has engendered. We listen in as philosophers, social scientists and poets draw the brightly colored threads of performativity, recognition and speech across debates about citizenship, gender, human rights. In the end, the book tunes into the awesome popularity of Judith Butler's work, and it pumps up the volume of the noisy, unruly, troubled and exciting soundscape of discourse in motion. -Judith Halberstam, Professor of English and Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California 

This is a unique text that takes us into a sophisticated discussion between Judith Butler and some of the scholars who use her analytics for applied work. With Bronwyn Davies as facilitator you are in the best hands when entering this exceptionally interesting conversation with one of the most influential feminist philosophers of our time -Dorte Maria Søndergaard, Institut for Pædagogisk Psykologi 

Cristyn Davies 
Research Officer 
Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy Research Concentration 
University of Western Sydney- 
Bankstown campus 
Locked Bag 1797 
Penrith South DC 
NSW 1797 
AUSTRALIA 
Ph. 61 2 9772 6784 
Fax. 61 2 9772 6738 
Email: c.m.davies at uws.edu.au 







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