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The Secret Life of Crowds: Gender, Sexuality, and the Masses
A three day conference of the Princeton Department of Comparative Literature will explore the ways that crowds and masses invoke, rehearse, and destabilize the terrain of gender and sexuality—and the gendered and erotic dimensions of mass assembly, from the agitated crowd to the nation-state.
What are the gendered imaginaries, social practices, or divisions of labor that undergird instances of political assembly? How are gender and sexuality shaped or affected by the discourses and institutions that form alongside masses and crowds? Finally, how do literature, visual art, film, and other media negotiate these productive entanglements?
The keynote will be delivered by Alexander Weheliye (Northwestern).
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