[Englecturers] The Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture Series Inaugural Lecture

[Susan Brown]

The UC-Riverside Department of English and the LGBIT Studies Minor

Present:


The Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture Series Inaugural Lecture


Carolyn Dinshaw


Professor of English and Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University

 


Out of Sync: Three Tales of the Catskills


 

What does it feel like to be a body in time -- or out of time, or in the
wrong time? In this talk Professor Dinshaw will explore experiences of time
that are not linear and progressive but are, rather, non-synchronous.
Situated in the Catskill Mountain range, Dinshaw picks up on the legendary
temporalities of the area by looking at three weird chronic phenomena: Rip
van Winkle's night of sleep that lasted 20 years; a nineteenth-century
female hunter, "born too soon," who passed as a man; and an old gravestone
that washed up on the banks of a flooded creek. She will discuss the ethics
of addressing what Derrida calls the "non-contemporaneity with itself of the
living present."

 


Thursday, February 28, HMNSS 1500 3:30 pm


 

 
Please join us for a reception immediately following in the English
department library, HMNSS 2211

 



 

 

Open to the Public.  Contact:  Professor Andrea Denny-Brown andreadb at ucr.edu

 

 

Susan Brown

Management Services Officer

Department of English

University of California, Riverside

(951)827-1456

 

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