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A good and lively evening is in store as eminent visiting University of Southern California professor Judith Halberstam and University of Washington professor Chandan Reddy discuss recent, related books. Judith Halberstam is the author of In a Queer Time and Place, Female Masculinity, Skin Shows, and, recently, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke University Press). "Failure abounds all around us: economic collapse, nation-states falter, and malfeasance rules. In the face of our dismal situation, Judith Halberstam distills and repurposes the negative in order to think outside the tyranny of success. The Queer Art of Failure finds a new vitality in not winning, accumulating, doing, or knowing ... this compelling book pushes beyond many of the impasses and blockages that limit critical horizons today." – José Esteban Muñoz. Professor Halberstam also edits the Perverse Modernities series for Duke University Press, of which Chandan Reddy's Freedom with Violence is one of the newest releases. To wit: "Freedom with Violence is a one of a kind, once in a generation book. Chandan Reddy argues that 'American political modernity' depends absolutely on a notion of freedom crafted out of a constitutive violence which takes the form of race ... he pulls his argument into tighter and tighter spirals, connecting his thesis about race to brilliantly original accounts of sexuality and making stunning connections between North American racial politics and European colonialism. This is a classic, landmark study." – Judith Halberstam.
