Medieval/Gender Theory Talk

Man oh man, I wish I could go to this lecture on Thursday. Alas, I'll be hosting a reception that night. Bummer! It's free and open to the public.

From one of our profs:

For anyone interested in gender and sexuality, and postmodern theory, I highly recommend the American and British Lecture this Thursday, in Alderson Auditorium at 7:30 pm. Our speaker Larry Scanlon is Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Rutgers, and he has another primary interest in critical theory. Thursday's talk, "News from Nowhere: The Utopian Underside of Medieval Homophobia," is part of his current theoretical investigation into the role that medieval lit and Christianity have played in shaping 20th century notions of sexuality and gender.

Recent work by Scanlon includes an article about medieval bawdy narratives, modern erotica, and cultural studies; an article about the role of vernacularity in Langston Hughes and medieval poets; and a book-length study of how vernacular medieval poets invert strategies from sacred texts to access poetic authority and political influence. More information is available in the press release: http://www.news.ku.edu/2010/march/17/scanlon.shtml.

Cadillacs and liquor bottles

A million billion thanks to pamelonian and shrijani for pulling this one off. After a bit of hemming and hawing and freakouts and angry almost-boycotts, we got our tickets, bitches.

Yeah.