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Event date: 24 May 2010 - 6.00-8.00pm,
Room B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck
(entrance on Torrington Square): see map

We are delighted to present Judith Butler’s Public lecture

Judith Butler

‘Co-habitation, Universality and Remembrance’

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently working on essays pertaining to Jewish Philosophy, focusing on pre- and post-Zionist criticisms of state violence. She continues to write on contemporary politics, cultural and literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, and sexual politics.

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The Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway University of London was established to foster a ‘community of enquiry’. It promotes innovative thought, interdisciplinary initiatives and collaborative research.

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Public lecture presented by the Humanities and Arts Research Centre of Royal Holloway, the School of Psychosocial Studies (Birkbeck) and the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research

Professor Judith Butler

‘Frames of War’

Professor Butler presents from her forthcoming book from Verso, Frames of War: The Politics of Ungrievable Life. Butler explores the way that recent US-led wars have enforced a distinction between those lives that are recognized as grievable, and those that are not. more