Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Free and open to the public
COLIN DAYAN
Department of English and Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University
EXTRANEOUS PERSONS, STIGMATIZED PROPERTIES
Human materials are remade and persons undone in the sanctity of law. Is there an afterlife of ostracism? Spectres are very much part of the legal domain. What remains once civil life has been replaced with penal life? Dayan seeks to demonstrate how rituals of expulsion, thought to be archaic, remain intact to haunt, intimidate, and control. The management of rubbish, what we might call fecal motives, draws distinctions between the free and the bound, persons and things, the familiar and the strange. Categories of stigma and evidence of the ghostly are resurrected under cover of legality.
APRIL 14, 2010
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Toboggan Lodge
In addition to Dayan's lecture, she will conduct a seminar on the topic of"Who Gets to be Wanton?"
The suggested reading for Dayan's seminar is The Story of Cruel and Unusual. Several copies will be available for short-term loan at the Toboggan Lodge. Contact Julie Moore to access the text.
To learn more about Colin Dayan visit her website.
Colin Dayan's website
