Amelia Jones / In Between Subjects / Kunstraum

04. Juli

PUBLIC LECTURE

Amelia Jones

USC Roski School of Art and Design

In Between Subjects 

July 4, 2023, 6:15 pm, KUNSTRAUM, CAMPUS HALL 25

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, 21335 Lüneburg

This presentation gives an overview of Jones’s book In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Subjects, with attention to deeper motivations behind its development, and tracks her thinking about the intersection of “queer” and “performance” or “performativity” since the book was published. Given the rise of anti-trans culture wars and legislation in the United States, for example, what does it mean to historicize this intersection? What aspects of the intersection can be revitalized to empower the struggles for trans existence and political rights today?

This lecture is hosted by the Research Training Group "Cultures of Critique", the Center for Critical Studies and the Gender and Diversity Research Network. It is organized in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Center "Intervening Arts" (FU Berlin).