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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear Colleagues and Students: Every year we remember our colleague and friend Greg Bredbeck through the annual lecture in his name. This year’s lecture by Kevin Kopelson promises to be very much in the spirit
of Greg’s own work. Please join us this coming Monday, May 7, at 3:30 in HMNSS 1500. Details below.
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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="color:#1F497D">Deborah Willis, Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dept. of English<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">University of California<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Riverside, CA 92521<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Email: <a href="mailto:dwill@ucr.edu">
dwill@ucr.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Office phone: 951-827-1458<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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