Judith Butler and Maggie Nelson: Gender, Identity, Memoir

Gender, Identity, Memoir
Judith Butler, Professor of Comparative Literature
Maggie Nelson, author and Professor of Critical Studies, California Institute for the Arts
Mon., Jan. 30, 6:30 pm
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Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Her work has been influential in a variety of disciplines including critical theory and gender studies. She has received many of the highest honors in the humanities, including the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award.
2016 MacArthur Fellow Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous works of nonfiction and poetry including The Argonauts (Graywolf, 2015), an autobiography that explores issues of gender, sexuality, and love, and which received the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Nelson is faculty in Critical Studies and Chair of Creative Writing at California Institute of the Arts.

[@jelef001]

Incredible, brilliant conversation. Thank you for posting.

[@gayatri-ydkh]

loved it

[@cynthiaroderick7864]

Is Butler doing her email?

[@jakefrisbie8409]

amazing

[@stellaboulton9531]

Audience and speakers alike, experts in using 50 words where 1 would do.

[@serpentines6356]

These are the kinds of people who like to impress themselves with nonsense. Real academics don't need to do that.

[@LizaFan]

@@serpentines6356 Like . . . who? Sometimes "simple" isn't better. If theory strains words, it's because it seeks to worldmake otherwise.

[@serpentines6356]

@@LizaFan That's word salad, gobbledygook. I see a lot of garbage being spewed by this nonsense.