President Roth Interviews Judith Butler in Video Feature
Bill FisherIn this video, Wesleyan President Michael Roth speaks with Judith Butler, the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, at the Center for Humanities on Feb. 13. Their conversation ranges from Butler’s earliest philosophical influences to her pioneering book, Gender Trouble, and her current work on desire and recognition. Butler taught at Wesleyan in the 1980s.
[youtube width=”640″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf4px4KyqbY[/youtube]
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