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Annual Queer Theory Lecture presents keynote Lynne Huffer

Lynne Huffer headshot and exhibit photo on green background
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Lynne Huffer
Queer Theory Lecture in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

The Annual Queer Theory Lecture
In honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick presents Keynote Speaker Lynne Huffer. Lecture title: These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction, Lecture and Interactive Exhibit.

Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. She is the author of a trilogy on Foucault's ethics of eros: Foucault's Strange Eros (2020); Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex (2013); and Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory (2010). She is also the author of Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference (1998) and Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing (1992). She has published academic articles on feminist theory, queer theory, Foucault, ethics, autotheory, and the Anthropocene, as well as personal essays, creative nonfiction, and opinion pieces in mass media venues. She is also the author, with Jennifer Yorke, of Wading Pool, a collaborative artists book, available at Vamp and Tramp. Her current experimental book-length text-image project, under review, is These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction.

Registration Link:
https://duke.is/c/ym5e

Contact: Julie Wynmor