Patrick Anderson - There Will Be No Bobby Sands in Guantanamo Bay: Hunger, State Sovereignty, and the Morbidity of Resistance
4.00pm
Kreindler Auditorium (Room 041), Haldeman Center
Patrick Anderson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where he is also affiliated with the Critical Gender Studies Program and the Ethnic Studies Department. Bridging the fields of performance studies and cultural studies, Anderson's work explores enactments of violence and productions of political subjectivity within institutional domains including the prison, the clinic, the gallery, and the theater. His first book, currently in revision, explores hunger striking, anorexia nervosa, and staged fasts as spectacular, radically charged practices that attempt to intervene on ideological state sovereignty. His second book, a collection of essays co-edited with Jisha Menon, interrogates violence as performance and performative in contemporary global politics. His next project, Against Empathy, argues for a radical re-thinking of how and why empathy underwrites both performance practice and multiculturalist discourse in contemporary American cultural politics.
This lecture is related to: CoCo 9 "Inside Out: Prison, Women, and Performance" co-taught by Ivy Schweitzer and Pati Hernandez, Fall 2007 2A.
Co-sponsored by MALS and the Department of Theater.
Related link:
- Patrick Anderson's article, To Lie down to Death for Days (2004). Full-text available to Dartmouth users.