Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics

Overview

Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics was a three-day international interdisciplinary conference which sought to generate new theories and practices of subjectivity - 'sexuate subjects' - through contemporary poetic and political research in the visual arts, humanities and social sciences.

It was led by the Bartlett School of Architecture for UCL's Intercultural Interactions Grand Challenge, with colleagues from The Slade, Art History and French at UCL, and external partners, Hofstra and Stony Brook Universities, and KTH Stockholm. Keynote speakers included: Luce Irigaray, Elizabeth Grosz, Dorita Hannah, Katja Grillner/FATALE and Lorraine Code.

Nine panels, exhibitions, performances and invited keynote speakers examined the following themes:  environmental and social crises; sustainable ecologies; poetic communities, pedagogies, voices and bodies; the politics of bio-medicine, body-rights, family and well-being.

Keywords: interdisciplinarity, subjectivity, poetics, politics, ethics, visual arts, feminist philosophy, environmental crisis, well-being.

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