Women in the Humanities
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“Doing Feminist Thinking with Judith Butler” is part of the Feminist Thinking Seminars that the MSt in Women’s Studies cohort organises every year. This year, we have aimed to organise inclusive online events which may motivate us to re-imagine the reality we live in. We want to engage in a dialogue that allows us to rethink and propose new ways of allowing greater equality for women, trans people, people of colour, LGBTIQ+ people and other groups that have less power in society. The term ‘feminist thinking’ is up for interpretation - part of our goal is not to decide what feminist thinking is but rather ask what it could be.
In this specific seminar, Professor Butler will discuss their understanding of “feminist thinking”, who can afford to do feminist thinking, and the processes behind their feminist thinking. Embedded within these questions is an attempt to query, challenge and resignify what feminist thinking is and in doing so expand our access to feminist thinking, especially for women, trans people, people of colour, and LGBTIQ+ people and other marginalized communitites. This event will also explore the nexus between doing feminist theory and participating in political activism, inviting us to reflect on what our role as feminists can be. This main discussion and subsequent Q&A will be moderated by Dr Emily Cousens and Levi Hord, alum of the Women’s Studies programme.
Watch live here: https://youtu.be/KWHEnqbKgOY
Please note, this event will not be recorded and therefore won't be available to view online after the live event. You can set a reminder to attend this event on YouTube by clicking the above link.
Judith Butler (she/they) is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984. Her books have been translated into more than 27 languages and she has received eleven honorary degrees. She was from 1996-2000 a principal investigator of a Mellon Foundation Grant that supports the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs which she founded and co-directed from 1996-2000. Butler is active in several human rights organizations, having served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and presently on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She was the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities (2009-13), was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2018, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. In 2020, she served as President of the Modern Language Association.
