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Sara Ahmed, AWGSA 2014 Conference Keynote</p>
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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.5em">In this lecture I suggest that rethinking what is at stake in willfulness is a way of rethinking responsibility. In recent ethical </span>philosophy, responsibility has
been shifted away from “willful subjects” as those who make decisions or are held to account (as we can see for example in François Raffoul’s 2010 book, <i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px">The Origin of Responsibility). </i></p>
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In this paper, I offer a different kind of account of willful subjects, showing how willfulness tends to be a charge made against subjects who are “too impulsive,” or who lack the coordination required to ask responsibly. I consider how feminists are often
judged as being willful, and thus how feminism becomes understood as failing the condition of responsibility. I also note how willfulness tends to “come up” in scenes of breakage and suggest that willfulness can be experienced as an affinity between what and
who is deemed to cause breakage as well as what and who is given the quality of being breakable. My aim throughout will be to offer a reanimation of responsibility as a way of being responsive to histories that leaves us fragile.</p>
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Sara Ahmed’s new book <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px"><a href="http://www.dukeupress.edu/Willful-Subjects/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(161,69,151)" target="_blank">Willful
Subjects</a> </em>will be published in 2014.</p>
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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(128,0,128)">This event is an open public lecture offered as part of the <a href="http://awgsa.org.au/awgsa-biennial-conference-2014/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(161,69,151)" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(128,0,128)">Biennial
AWGSA Conference</span></a>, occurring at the University of Melbourne 23-25 June. </span></h6>
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<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(51,51,153)">The lecture will be at 4pm on 24 June 2014 in the Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building, University
of Melbourne. </span></strong></h6>
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The 2014 Conference is hosted by gender and women’s studies programs based in Melbourne Universities: <a href="http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/womens-and-gender-studies/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(161,69,151)" target="_blank">Centre
for Women’s Studies & Gender Research</a> in <a href="http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/sociology/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(161,69,151)" target="_blank">Sociology</a>, Monash University; <a href="http://culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/study-areas/gender-studies" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(161,69,151)" target="_blank">Gender
Studies</a>, University of Melbourne; <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/shss/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(161,69,151)" target="_blank">Sociology and Gender Studies</a>, Deakin University.</p>
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