Lecture
Georgetown Humanities Initiative Faculty Work in Progress: Prof. Peggy Kyoungwon Lee (English Dept.), “’Holding Myself Together’: On Mereology, Institutional Violence, and Exhaustion”
In this talk, part of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative Faculty Work in Progress Series, Professor Peggy Kyoungwon Lee will present from their book-in-progress, Politics of Composure: Race, Femininity, and Performance in the Post-Civil Rights Era. She will discuss the mereological, affective, and material dimensions of “holding myself together” as labors of exhaustion and escape from institutional violence by examining Adrian Piper’s ongoing work, What Will Become of Me (1985-) and Seo-Young Chu’s lyric essay, “A Refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major” (2017).
The discussant will be Prof. Soyica Colbert, Vice President for Interdisciplinary Initiatives; Idol Family Professor of Black Studies and Performing Arts.