The Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender at Columbia University, and the Department of English and Comparative Literature present...
The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers Book Launch
Monday, January 27th, 2025 at 6:00pm
In-person in the World Room at Pulitzer Hall. This event will be first come, first seated. This event will not be livestreamed, but a recording will be available later.
*YOU MUST BE COLUMBIA-AFFILIATED STAFF, FACULTY, OR A COLUMBIA STUDENT TO REGISTER*
Edited by Margo Natalie Crawford and C. Riley Snorton, The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers is the first collection to take up directly how Spillers’s writing on literature, culture, and theory have been signal posts to the varied and universal threads of Black thought, as well as countless other areas of the academy. Interspersed with archival fragments from Spillers’s papers kept at the Pembroke Center for Feminist Thought at Brown University, the collection demonstrates a fidelity to the ways of reading Spillers has taught us the nomenclature of enslavement keyed into the American lexicon and the ways that history permeates our cultural boundaries today. In this book launch event, contributors Fred Moten, Kiana Murphy, Kevin Quashie, and co-editors Margo Natalie Crawford and C. Riley Snorton will each deliver presentations inspired by the richness of Spillers' archive, with a response from Hortense Spillers.
