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Judith Butler Koehn Lecture - "Versions of Binationalism in Said and Buber"

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley for which she served as Founding Director. She is the author, co-author, and editor of over thirty books, including Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (1987), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (1993), The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (1997), Excitable Speech (1997), Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000), Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (2004), Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009), and Is Critique Secular? (with Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, and Saba Mahmood, 2009). Her most recent books include Sois Mon Corps (2011), co-authored with Catherine Malabou, and Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012). She has two forthcoming books: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Harvard University Press) and Senses of the Subject (Fordham University Press). Professor Butler is the recipient of, among other things, the Brudner Prize from Yale University for lifetime achievement in gay and lesbian studies (2004), the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities (2009-13), the Adorno Prize from the City of Frankfurt (2012) in honor of her contributions to feminist and moral philosophy, and the diploma of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Cultural Ministry (2013).