March 1, Monday
12:30 to 1:45 PM
Amber Musser, Gender Politics, Draper Program, NYU
Imagine that you were in love with the Golden Gate Bridge? What would this mean to you? What kind of relationship would develop? This talk is an exploration of objectum sexuals–people who form meaningful and erotic relationships with objects. By examining this phenomenon, we [...]
February 8, Monday
12:30 to 1:45 PM
Katie Brewer Ball, Doctoral Candidate, Performance Studies, NYU
The “more speculative genres,” as Junot Diaz calls them, such as science fiction and fantasy continue to enthusiastically capture the attention and interest of the American public. What precisely, is the draw that such stories hold for mass consumers, and more specifically why [...]
Rebecca Colesworthy, Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought, NYU
December 7, Monday
12:30 to 1:45 PM
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
41-51 East 11th Street, Room 709
between University Place and Broadway
wheelchair access at 85-87 University Place between 11th & 12th Streets
This talk proposes a connection between the “modernist turn” in Anglo-American literature and the “return” [...]