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<p class="Default"><b><span style="color:#C00000">SAVE THE DATE</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext">The English Department & LGBIT Studies</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">The Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;color:windowtext">Kevin Kopelson</span></b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:windowtext">Professor of English, University of Iowa</span></b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:25.0pt;color:windowtext">“Dressing Up Roland Barthes”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:25.0pt;color:windowtext">Monday, May 7, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:25.0pt;color:windowtext">3:30-5:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:25.0pt;color:windowtext">HMNSS 1500<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext">Light refreshments will be served</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">The Fashion System
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">(1967), by Roland Barthes, is this most pleasurable of critics’ least pleasurable text. It is also his least personal one. Another problem is that, by analyzing
– structurally – the mere verbiage of fashion magazine advertisements, Barthes fails to see and hence understand what images they present. I can imagine, though, how he might have re-written this book, more pleasurably, as a queer poststructuralist attentive
to such images – which is to say, the way I myself usually write but also, more importantly, the way Barthes himself, in works like
<i>Camera Lucida </i>(1980), later did. And so I will actually attempt that revision for him.</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">A native New Yorker, Kevin Kopelson attended both Bronx High School of Science and The Juilliard School.
He majored in music at Yale and then got a law degree from Columbia. After practicing law, he got a doctorate (from Brown) in English Literature. Much to his surprise, he’s been in Iowa ever since – teaching queer theory, critical theory, and cultural studies
at the University of Iowa. He has also written books: “Love’s Litany” (1994), “Beethoven’s Kiss” (1996), “The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky” (1997), “Neatness Counts” (2004), “Sedaris” (2007), and “Confessions of a Plagiarist” (2012).</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Susan Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Financial and Administrative Officer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Departments of English, History, and Philosophy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University of California, Riverside<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(951)827-1456<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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