Dr. Shannon Winnubst, professor and department chair of WGSS, will be delivering a lecture titled "Doors: An Object Lesson in Race and Sexuality" on Friday, Feb. 16th from 2pm - 3:30pm.
Abstract: This project engages theory as a mode of world-making to construct a more robust affective syntax than classical liberalism offers for the complex formations of race. By locating the formation of modernity in a violent anti-black metaphysics, this lecture places incipient “whiteness” in relation to two doors: the Door of No Return that Dionne Brand names the catastrophe of the transatlantic slave trade and the door of the domestic bedroom that anchors Michel Foucault’s genealogies of modern sexuality. What might it mean to inhabit the spaces between these doors? How might this alter our understandings of both race and sexuality?
This talk is a part of the Arts and Humanities Inaugural Lecture Series. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required for the reception accompanying the event. To register, please fill out this webform on the Arts and Sciences website. For more information and a list of events, please visit the Inaugural Lecture event page on the Arts and Sciences website.
