Join Tate Liverpool and world-renowned literary theorist Leo Bersani for the second in a year-long series of FREE Keywords lectures in Liverpool.
Thursday 9 May 2013, 19.00 – 20.00.
LEAF on Water Street, 25 Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L2 0RG.
Keywords is a dynamic exhibition and lecture programme that looks at how changes in the meaning of words reflect cultural shifts in our society. The programme is inspired by Raymond Williams’ Keywords, a seminal work in the study of the English language as well as the fields of Cultural Studies and Visual Culture.
In his lecture, Bersani will discuss the keyword sex, and the ‘place’ sex holds in our culture. Drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud and the late French theorist Michel Foucault, Bersani will confront psychoanalysis with the imperatives of the body to arrive at a definition of a ‘soma-analysis’. On the evening there will be an opportunity for attendees to actively engage and share their thoughts with the guest speaker and exhibitions curators.
Leo Bersani is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley specialising in 19th and 20th century art and literature. His writings on sexuality – particularly gay sexualities – psychoanalysis and the visual arts have inspired generations of cultural theorists and activists.
Please note that this event takes place at LEAF on Water Street, 25 Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L2 0RG.
Lectures are free. Please forward onto your students or colleagues who may also be interested in attending.
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