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Psychoanalysis Lecture Series by Ranjana Khanna MARGARET TAYLOR SMITH the Year of Psychoanalysis in an International Frame DIRECTOR of WOMEN’S STUDIES SPRING 2015 WWW.WOMENSTUDIES.DUKE.EDU - PAGE 4 - - PAGE 6 - - PAGE 8 - - PAGE 14 - Faculty Updates FTW 2014 Lecture Series The Haunted Catch up with Women’s Feminist Theory Fascinating lectures are Scholars reflect on the Studies faculty members. Workshop participants part of this year’s theme, no-longer new South share their experiences. Psychoanalysis in an Africa at this two-day International Frame. interdisciplinary conference. Psychoanalysis Lecture Series By Ranjana Khanna MARGARET TAYLOR SMITH The Year of Psychoanalysis in an International Frame DIRECTOR OF WOMEN’S STUDIES ur theme of International Psychoanalysis has four pieces that follow go some way to exploring our theme this yielded some fantastic talks. The lectures have year (discussed more generally in the spring 2014 newsletter) explored the manner in which psychoanalysis was through some of the speakers who come to spend time with Oa syncretic internationalist form in its early years us. Far from irrelevant or outdated, psychoanalysis is shown as it developed around the world, and that today it remains a to be pertinent and essential for the study of the processes of form of clinical and cultural analysis that travels back and forth individuation from Buenos Aires to Bombay, and from Cairo to across continents raising questions concerning the relationship the Caribbean. between sexual difference and other forms of difference. The The four referenced articles begin on Page 8. WS Newsletter WOMEN’S STUDIES Kinship FALL 2014 EVENTS Trouble SEPTEMBER 19 The EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE DEBATES Kinship Trouble - The Equality/Difference Debates: NC, USA, France, Europe, daylong workshop By Annabel L. Kim hosted by the Program in Women’s Studies and POSDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, the Center for French & Francophone Studies PROGRAM IN LITERATURE, DUKE UNIVERSITY “Kinship Trouble: The Equality and Difference Debates,” was organized by Ranjana Khanna (Women’s Studies), Helen SEPTEMBER 29 Solterer (Romance Studies), and Anne Garréta (Literature), as Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), “Unseen a response to the debates in the United States and in France City: Traveling Psychoanalysis and the Urban Poor,” over issues of same-sex marriage. Five invited speakers Psychoanalysis in an International Frame series reflected on same-sex marriage and its consequences for our current models of kinship and society. Over the course of the workshop, the subject was debated from the various vantage SEPTEMBER 29 points of, among others, legal practice, legal theory, sociology, Graduate Scholars Colloquium: “Psychoanalysis political science, philosophy, feminism, and queer theory. in an International Frame,” 2014-15 WST Post- The liveliness of the conversation and the interventions of the Doctoral Associates round table with and Carolina audience made it clear that regardless of who one was and Diaz, Anna Fishzon, and Ross Truscott what sort of background one had, same-sex marriage and the questions that it poses was a subject of consequence for all. OCTOBER 20 Patricia Gherovici (Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic The first part of the workshop featured the two legal experts Association, NY), “Beautiful Difference: From on the panel: Maxine Eichner (UNC Chapel Hill), and Milan Hysteria in the Barrio to Transgender Plasticity,” Pham, a local Durham lawyer at the law firm Nicholson Psychoanalysis in an International Frame series Pham. The second part of the workshop focused on identity (de)formation and subjectivity, with Michael Warner (Yale), Katherine Costello (Duke), and Eric Fassin (Paris 8). OCTOBER 27 Omnia El Shakry (UC Davis), “The Arabic Freud Eichner pointed out that regardless of our feelings about and the Invention of the Psychosexual Subject,” marriage, we could all agree that if straight people had access Psychoanalysis in an International Frame series to marriage, gay people ought to too. She acknowledged that marriage has historically been a heteronormative institution of exclusion that has supported models of gender complementarity OCTOBER 27 and inequality and reinforced racial exclusion. She argued that Graduate Scholars Colloquium: “A Loud Silence: Sound in the Islamic Context and What it Means for - CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 - Sex and Gender,” Kiah Glenn (Religious Studies) - CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 - 2 of 16 been translated through legal of consent was adequate, frameworks, and thus the emerging as it did from the Director’s “crime” of rape is understood history of women as property. in terms of its potential for Equally problematic is the criminal definition. The form blanket assertion that rape is Column of criminality associated with violence and not sex, as if the rape goes back in legal history question of the particularly violence on the campus. The to understanding rape as a sexual nature of the assault story oscillated between on the crime of property—a crime, were irrelevant, and as if the one hand making UVA sound for example, against the father nature of sex itself—indeed of worse than most places, and of the victim. The idea of sexuality beyond the act--as on the other, making it into an the use or abuse of another’s an ambiguous category were example of the larger problem property continues into the not worthy of investigation. of rape at universities. The moment in which women have topic of rape at universities has the right to refuse being used. Force, harm, property, become a source of national In other words, consent is less contract, power, violence, fear, concern outside and inside about agreeing to something, genocidal and reproductive university settings, with many, and more about refusing violation—the terms that are “ Obviously there has been huge debate around whether the liberal feminist model of consent was adequate, emerging as it did from the history of women as property.” Ranjana Khanna feminists included, concerned access. What counts as associated with the feminist MARGARET TAYLOR SMITH about the manner in which consent is very complicated to scholarship and activism on DIRECTOR OF WOMEN’S STUDIES accuser and accused are being assess; it has been understood rape have unfortunately all treated. in terms not only of verbal failed to address questions n Fall 2014, assertion, but also in the of desire and sexuality newspapers were It has struck me and also a more ambiguous question themselves. Perhaps if we filled with the Rolling number of my colleagues in of how to read women’s began to more carefully IStone story about informal conversation how behavior. Both verbal and address these, we would more a UVA orchestrated gang inadequate to the task of behavioral notions of consent effectively deal with rape, rape. The story, subsequently dealing with rape feminist have muddied the waters as and with the feminist failure discredited, was composed to thought has been. Over and much as clarified them. to address it adequately. highlight the sensational event, over again, rape is pushed but also gestured toward the through the mill of language Obviously there has been larger problem of covering about consent. Social huge debate around whether up various incidents of sexual conceptions of rape have the liberal feminist model 3 of 16 WS Newsletter Faculty Updates anjana on Life, Politics and Art (Duke 2014): and at Swarthmore and doing research at Yale Khanna spent University Press 2011). College (October 2014). This University’s Beinecke fall semester year, Frances is serving as Library. In the summer of R setting up the an Editor of the Journal of 2014, an essay titled “Modern International Psychoanalysis rances S. Middle East Women’s Studies Spectacle and American talks, getting to know our Hasso was on beginning with Vol. 11 (2015). Feminism’s Disappointing four fantastic post-doctoral a sabbatical The journal’s editorial office, Daughters: Writing Fantasy scholars, and teaching the research which is partly supported Echoes in The Portrait of course related to that theme. F by Duke Women’s Studies, a Lady” was published in leave during 2013-2014. She has also been traveling She initiated new research has moved to Duke and the Feminist Theory, and in to give talks about her work projects in Bahrain and University of North Carolina January of 2015, an essay on from Cornell to Kalamazoo. Egypt, including fieldwork at Chapel Hill for the next Harlem Renaissance writer Ranji added, “I have also had in Cairo, and co-organized four years. The publisher is Jessie Fauset’s engagement the real pleasure of hiring the Geographies of Gender now Duke University Press. with and representation of our new staff members, in the Arab Revolutions In fall 2014, Frances co-taught fashionable clothing will Kelly Schwehm and Sheila Workshop in December with Nadia Yaqub of UNC appear in the collection Devis who work with 2013 for a forthcoming book a lively graduate seminar, Crossing in Text and Textile. Kim Carlisle, the Business that includes a chapter she Critical Genealogies in Middle Kimberly is also editing a Manager of Women’s Studies authored titled, “Sectarian/ East Studies, which fulfills special issue of Women & who joined us last year.” Gendered Police & Rupture in the requirements for the Performance titled “Texting Bahrain’s Pearl Revolution.” joint Duke-UNC Graduate Girls: Images, Sounds, and Frances also published an Certificate in Middle East Words in Neoliberal Cultures lizabeth Grosz article, “Bargaining with the Studies and included students of Femininity,” which builds taught two Devil: States and Intimate from Duke, UNC, and North upon her first-year seminar classes in fall, an Life,” in the Journal of Middle Carolina State University. “Girls Go Global,” which she undergraduate East Women’s Studies, vol. Frances is also Director really enjoys teaching. In the E of Duke’s International spring of 2015, Kimberly will called Thinking Gender and a 10:2 (Spring 2014). She graduate student class called gave invited talks on new Comparative Studies Program. present a paper on Gordon Feminism, Visuality, and work at the 20th anniversary Parks’ photographs of Jim Space.
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