Jack Halberstam discusses his latest book, Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto.About this Event
Wolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania
Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto - Book Talk
Jack Halberstam
Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality; David Feinson Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
Pioneering gender and queer theorist Professor Jack Halberstam will elaborate upon the main contributions of this new book and suggest some areas for future research in relation to practices of unbuilding, undoing, and dismantling. The lecture will be accompanied by a slideshow of the artwork discussed in the book.
A book signing will follow the lecture and Q&A.
Cosponsored by the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies (FQT Center) and the Program for Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies (GSWS).
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is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, 2020 from Duke UP, is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a book titled Anarchitecture After Everything, which will be published by MIT Press in 2026.. Halberstam was recently the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton. Halberstam was recently named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.
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Event venue
Stiteler Hall, 208 South 37th Street, Philadelphia, United States
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