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A Special Invitation for Yale GALA Members from LGBT Studies at Yale …

Yale University Visits the Yale Club

The Brudner Prize Lecture by the 2008 Prize winner

WHEN:   Thursday, April 10, 7-9 PM

WHERE:  The Yale Club of New York City, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue. http://www.yaleclubnyc.org/
COST:     Free for Yale GALA members.
A reception (with open bar) will precede the presentation

Space is limited! 
MANDATORY RSVP to Rachel Pepper (rachel.pepper@yale.edu; or
call 203-432-7737) by March 20

LGBT Studies at Yale invites you to an event honoring our 2008 Brudner Prize winner, the French philosopher and gay activist Didier Eribon

Eribon will speak on "Haunted Lives: AIDS and the Future of Our Past"
Introduction by Professor Michael Warner, Yale University.

The James Robert Brudner Memorial Prize and Lecture Fund was established through a bequest of James Brudner '83 to celebrate lifetime accomplishment and world-class scholarly contributions in the field of lesbian and gay studies.  Past winners have included George Chauncey, Lillian Faderman and Judith Butler

Many thanks to LGBT Studies at Yale, Coordinator Rachel Pepper and Professor Joanne Meyerowitz, Chair of LGBT Studies at Yale.

For more on Eribon and the Brudner Prize, please visit: http://www.yale.edu/lesbiangay

Didier Eribon is a leading French philosopher, public intellectual, and political activist. He is the author of several books, including his acclaimed biography Michel Foucault (1989), now translated into twenty languages, and the bestselling Réflexions sur la question gay (1999), published in English as Insult and the Making of the Gay Self by Duke University Press in 2004. His other works include Une morale du minoritaire: Variations sur un thème de Jean Genet (2001); Hérésies: Essais sur la théorie de la sexualité (2003); and Echapper à la psychanalyse (2005). He is also the editor of Dictionnaire des cultures gays et lesbiennes (2003). His most recent book, D’une revolution conservative et de ses effets sur la gauche française (2007), which addresses the situation of the French left, has stirred passionate debate in France.

For several years, Eribon co-directed a seminar on the sociology of homosexuality at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He served as a visiting professor in philosophy and theory at the University of California at Berkeley. As a political activist, he is a vocal advocate for the civil rights of LGBT people in France. In 1997 he organized the first major conference in France on gay and lesbian studies. He also frequently reviews books on philosophy and social science for the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur.

More event info at: www.yalegala.org/April102008BrudnerPrize.html