Judith Butler Featured in Fragments, Lists, & Lacunae from February 13th to the 15th at New York Live Arts

Former director of CSSD Working Group Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance, Judith Butler, is featured in Fragments, Lists & Lacunae, a multimedia production written and produced by Alexandra Chasin and Zishan Ugurlu. The production focuses on three college students who are taking a course about gaps, holes, blanks, and white space, and in a series of nine lectures, their professor, played by Butler, offers multimedia provocations on absence, silence, negation, and nothingness.

The show will run from February 13th to the 15th at New York Live Arts. 

For more information on the production and ticket purchase, click here.

To read more about Vulnerability and Resistance, click here.

CSSD Anniversary Symposium Speakers featured in The New Yorker

Masha Gessen, a speaker at the 10th anniversary symposium for the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD), interviews fellow guest speaker and former CSSD working group director, Judith Butler, about her new book The Force of Nonviolence. The piece is featured in The New Yorker and can be read in full here.

For more on Judith Butler’s CSSD working group, Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance: Feminism and Social Change, click here.

Judith Butler and Başak Ertür write for The Guardian about situation in Turkey

Judith Butler and and Başak Ertür, fellows in the CSSD project Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance: Feminism and Social Change, have written an opinion for The Guardian in support of those who signed the Academics for Peace position in Turkey in January 2016. Trials of these signatories began last week in Istanbul. Read the article here:

"In Turkey, academics asking for peace are accused of terrorism"