Women’s and Gender Studies, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture and Creativity, and the Humanities
Research Unit invite you to the Winter 2015 lecture in the
New Feminist Research
Lecture Series
Julia Kristeva, Disability, and
the Singularity of Vulnerability
Thursday, March 5th
7:00 p.m.
Murray Library Room 102
(accessible by elevator; Access Transit can use
Place Riel Bus Drop Off)
Responding to neoliberal cultures of
individualism, consumption, and
productivity, Julia Kristeva has introduced
a psychoanalytic ‘interactionist’
theory of disability. Calling for a cultural
revolution, she proposes an alternative to
assimilationist models of disability justice.
Her approach involves recognition of the
singularity of human vulnerability. This
paper attends to the interactionist theory’s
difficulties and potential contributions to
emancipatory political philosophy, and
inquires whether this blend of
psychoanalysis and critical disability
theory yields a coherent politics.
Mary Bunch is SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Sexual Diversity Studies at U of T and has
taught gender and sexuality studies, global studies, and information and media studies. Her
current book project, Radical Democratics of Sex, engages communities whose sex is out of
bounds – border crossers, unruly queers, sex workers, and cripsex radicals. She is also
co-investigator on nationally-funded study of the gendered nature of health risks and sources
of resilience among sex workers. Mary has published in Culture, Theory and Critique, Feminist
Theory, and The Canadian Journal of Human Rights and is author of Genomes and Justice,
and co-author of The Atlas of Literacy and Disability, and Just Technology.
Refreshments provided; everyone welcome!
For more info. contact marie.lovrod@usask.ca
Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies, the ICCC, the
Humanities Research Unit, Philosophy, Disability Services for Students,
USSU Women’s and Pride Centers, and the Role Model Speakers’ Fund
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