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87332 Pembroke Newsletter.Qxd brown university spring 2007 Pembroke Center for teaching and research on women 2007-08 25th Anniversary Pembroke Seminar: The Question of Identity Lecture Series - in Psychoanalysis Future of Bernard Reginster, Associate Professor of Philosophy, will lead the 2007-08 Pembroke Seminar. Critique The Pembroke celebrates its twenty-fifth The 150th anniversary of Sigmund Freud's anniversary with a series of programs on birth has occasioned many reassessments of “The Future of Critique.” Fundamental Hank Randall psychoanalysis, some of which are quite criti- to the Center’s research, the practice of cal. Such criticisms tend to ignore two facts. critique seeks to grasp the ways differen- One is that some of Freud's most basic ideas tial systems of “gender,” along with eth- have become so deeply entrenched that their nicity, race, and other systems of differ- Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Freudian origins are overlooked. The other is Comparative Literature, University of California at ence, produce cultural, political, and Berkeley, delivered a lecture on January 29 on “Critique that, over the century since Freud's early psy- scientific meanings. The series contin- and Disciplinarity: Foucault via Kant.” The lecture was choanalytical works, the discipline he invented first in a series of programs on “The Future of Critique.” ues in April with two colloquia: witnessed a theoretical explosion of new ideas, primarily about the issues of identity and inter- April 17 April 19 subjectivity. These new ideas have produced a The Future of Social The Future of Critique in rich and sometimes confusing fabric of theoret- and Cultural Critique Science and Technology ical effects on disciplines as diverse as cultural studies, race and gender studies, literary and 1:30 pm 2:00 pm media studies, philosophy, religious studies, Crystal Room Crystal Room history, and anthropology. Alumnae Hall Alumnae Hall Wendy Chun What is the identity, the "ego" or sense of self, Srinivas Aravamudan Associate Professor of of which psychoanalysts speak? What does it Professor of English Modern Culture and Media mean to claim, as Freud did, that "the ego is Duke University primarily a bodily ego"? What are we to make Brown University Talal Asad of the fact, recently acknowledged by both Anne Fausto-Sterling Distinguished Professor child psychoanalysts and developmental Professor of Biology and of Anthropology psychologists, that some of the earliest, most Gender Studies City University of New York primitive layers of the sense of self develop Brown University Graduate Center before the capacity for verbalizable (self-) Elizabeth Wilson representation? What is the relation of identity Wendy Brown ARC Australian Research Fellow to basic human needs? Professor of Political Science University of New South Wales University of California at Berkeley The time has come to take stock. The seminar will explore psychoanalytic views on identifica- Joan Wallach Scott Cosponsors of the series are the departments tion, intersubjectivity, and their interrelation. Harold F. Linder Professor of Modern Culture and Media, English, Comparative Literature, and Anthropology; For a full seminar description, please visit: of Social Science the Science Studies program, and the www.pembrokecenter.org. Institute for Advanced Study Cogut Humanities Center. Mediated Bodies/Bodies of Mediation Lynne Joyrich, Associate Professor of theses to cloning and reproductive tech- appear in media culture? What other Modern Culture and Media and the nologies to media and interactive tech- “bodies of mediation” have existed in, for Chesler-Mallow Senior Faculty Research nologies of all sorts. instance, oral, print, or mechanical cul- Fellow at the Pembroke Center, is the tures? The seminar examines what is It is said that we live in a media-saturated director of the 2006-07 Pembroke Sem- meant by “media” and “body,” as both are world, that the media now constitute the inar. This year the seminar is exploring subject to historical change, technological very air we breathe. But what kind of bod- the relationships between the body and reframing, and philosophical debate. ies breathe this air (or airwaves), and how technology across histories and cul- are they formed by media technologies For a full seminar description, please tures; relationships ranging from pros- and texts? How do bodies appear and dis- see: www.pembrokecenter.org. Jennifer Boyle Eden Osucha Alanna Thain Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellow Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Ph.D. in English, University of Ph.D. in English, Postdoctoral Fellow California, Irvine, 2003 Duke University, 2006 Ph.D. in Literature, Duke University, 2005 Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Project: “The Subject of Privacy: Produc- Hollins University McGill University tions and Regulations of Intimate Per- Project: “The Anamorphic Imaginary: sonhood in Modern American Culture” Project: “In Mediacy: Screen/ Perspective and Embodiment in Early Dance and Virtual Corporealities” Modern Literature and Technoscience” This project explores the legal construct of “intimate personhood” at the core of This project examines the intersections This interdisciplinary project draws on privacy rights doctrine in the present- of live dance performance and literary and critical studies, art history, day U.S. and looks at its relationship to screen/dance (both live action and ani- science, and new media studies to look contemporary literary and visual cul- mated) in the works of Streb, Compagnie at the relationships between early mod- tures of public embodiment. This con- Marie Chouinard, Norman McLaren, ern perspective and questions of embod- junction of legal intimacy and media and others. In connecting two arts of iment. Boyle understands perspective as publicity reveals how the forms of gen- movement—cinema as the recorded live- a medium, a material and symbolic tech- dered and sexual citizenship both pre- liness of the moving pictures (where film nology that generates an image of three- sumed and consolidated by privacy law theory has too often seen only an illusion dimensional space associated with can be traced to histories of race-based of movement) and dance as the live everything from the high art of realist exclusions and particular modes of immediacy of performing bodies (a per- aesthetics to Cartesian rationalism and media production in the evolution of spective that fails to understand the its afterlives within video gaming envi- American citizenship. Working at the dancing body itself as a recording tech- ronments and military targeting sys- intersections of feminist and queer cul- nology)—the project seeks not to oppose tems. The crucial developments in tural theory as well as critical race-based the two but to find their shared move- optics, empirical science, and aesthetics cultural studies, this project takes as its ment. Thain displaces the real move- made possible by perspective imaging focus the question of mediated embodi- ment / false movement dichotomy of also generated questions about bodily ment too often deemed irrelevant for dance and film to elicit the virtual dimen- perception and affect. Perspective critical analysis in the fields of critical sion of movement, what she terms in- informed some of the earliest debates in legal studies, social theory, and techno- mediacy, or the generative condition of Western Europe over the power of tech- culture, fields now dominant in critical dynamicmedia irreducible to either the nologically enhanced images and scholarship on the right to privacy. concrete presence of a dancer’s body or embodiment. the idea of a represented body onscreen. 2 • pembroke center Pembroke Seminar Research Lectures Judith Halberstam Brian Rotman Faye Ginsberg Joseph Dumit Professor of English Professor of Professor of Anthropology Director, Science and Director of the Center Comparative Studies Director, Graduate Program Technology Studies for Feminist Research Advanced Computing Center in Culture and Media University of California, Davis University of Southern for the Arts and Design Director, Center for Media, Associate Editor, California Ohio State University Culture and History Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry Co-Director, Center for “Transbiology: The “The Alphabet, Ghosts, and “Bodies Aggregate: Religion and Media Spectacle of the Distributed Being” Accumulating Prognoses, New York University Non-Reproductive Body” Growing Markets, November 14, 2006 “Mediating Culture: Experimental Subjects” October 17, 2006 Indigenous Identity in April 3, 2007 a Digital Age” February 27, 2007 Faculty Fellows Lynne Joyrich Modern Culture and Media Chesler-Mallow Senior Faculty Pembroke Seminar Roundtable Research Fellow Robert Self March 15-16, 2007 History Edwin and Shirley Seave Mediation/Ethics Faculty Fellow Jane Bennett Kim Sawchuk Lingzhen Wang Professor and Chair of Political Science Associate Professor of East Asian Studies John Hopkins University Communication Studies Edith Goldthwaite Miller Concordia University Faculty Fellow Simon Penny Graduate Fellows Professor of Arts and Engineering Sharon Willis Claire Trevor School of the Arts and the Professor of French/Visual Eugenie Brinkema Modern Culture and Media Henry Samueli School of Engineering Cultural Studies University of California, Irvine University of Rochester Kenneth Prestininzi Theatre and Leigh Raiford Joanna Zylinska Performance Studies Assistant Professor of African Senior Lecturer in New Media
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