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\"2015<\/a>The Fifth Annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Lecture\u00a0in Gender and Sexuality Studies<\/h3>\n

with<\/h3>\n

Saba Mahmood<\/h2>\n

University of California, Berkeley<\/h3>\n

was held on<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 5, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

For a video of the lecture and discussion click\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

Taking its cue from Eve Sedgwick, this talk offers a “reparative reading” of the ongoing struggle over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed in Europe. Rather than read these debates as a standoff between religious taboos and secular freedoms, Mahmood unpacks the distinct epistemological and interpretive stakes at the heart of such conflicts.<\/p>\n

Professor Mahmood\u2019s work focuses on the interchange between religious and secular politics in postcolonial societies with special attention to issues of embodiment, cultural hermeneutics, law, and gender\/sexuality. \u00a0Her work is best known for its interrogation of liberal assumptions about the proper boundary between ethics and politics, freedom and unfreedom, the religious and the secular, and agency and submission. She is the author of\u00a0The Politics of Piety<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2nd edition, 2011) and, with Talal Assad, Wendy Brown, and Judith Butler,\u00a0Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2009)<\/p>\n

Sponsored by:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Boston University Center for the Humanities, The Department of English,\u00a0The School of Theology,\u00a0The Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,\u00a0The Department of Religion, The Department of Romance Studies,\u00a0The Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature,\u00a0and\u00a0The Department of Sociology, The Program in Middle Eastern and North Africa Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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