[csaa-forum] Lauren Berlant @ Mardi Gras Queer Thinking Feb 19

[Melissa Gregg]

Please distribute widely... 

 

New Mardi Gras, Sydney Ideas and the University of Sydney Department of
Gender and Cultural Studies present

 

Lauren Berlant, "Structures of Unfeeling: Mysterious Skin"

 

Downstairs Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney

February 19, 4pm

 

"Structures of Unfeeling: Mysterious Skin" reads with Heim's and Araki's
work to think about a cultural style of underperformed emotion that's
post-melodramatic. It looks at contexts such as 20th century
avant-gardes, trauma publics, punk/gothnegativity, LGBT and working
class sexual cultural styles, comic deadpan, and other modes in which
affective activity appears as inexpressive form, providing a holding
space of delayed response to the urgencies of the moment.

 

 

Lauren Berlant is George L. Pullman Professor of English Language and
Literature at the University of Chicago. She is the author of several
books and essays that have had a galvanizing effect on the field of
queer studies, including The Queen of America Goes to Washington City:
Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Duke University Press, 1997), The Female
Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
(Duke University Press, 2008) and editor of "Intimacy: A Special Issue,"
Critical Inquiry (Winter 1998).

 

To book, or for more details about the event and Queer Thinking:

http://www.mardigras.org.au/mardi-gras-2011/queer-thinking/index.cfm

 

Hope to see many of you there! 

Melissa

 

Dr Melissa Gregg

Department of Gender and Cultural Studies
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
Quadrangle Building A14

University of Sydney NSW 2006

Australia

http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/staff/profiles/mgregg.shtml
<http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/staff/profiles/mgregg.shtml>  

 

New book: The Affect Theory Reader (edited with Gregory J Seigworth) 

http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=17901
<http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=17901>  

 

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