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X-WR-CALNAME:Sapphic Threads: Queer Text[ile]s and Ancient Poetry-Dr. Ella 
 Haselswerdt
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DESCRIPTION:While the figure of the archaic poet Sappho and the scanty exta
 nt text of her poetry have played a significant role in the history of sex
 uality\, details of her biography and the social significance of her desir
 e for women are ultimately impossible to recover. As a part of a larger pr
 oject seeking non-positivist ways to construct contemporary queer identifi
 cation with Sappho\, this talk intertwines the philological reception hist
 ory of her fragmentary poems about textiles and weaving with contemporary 
 queer and feminist handicraft. Fiber artists and practitioners have long u
 sed their craft and craftiness to play with and subvert normative gendered
  expectations in both the political and aesthetic terms. These comparanda 
 provide both metaphorical and material insight into Sappho’s sensory lyr
 ic world\, while also casting light on questions of memory\, marginality\,
  labor\, high versus low art\, and text versus paratex.\n\nDr. Ella Hasels
 werdt is Assistant Professor of Classics at UCLA. Her current book project
 \, Epistemologies of Suffering: Tragedy\, Trauma\, and the Choral Subject\
 , argues that tragedy uses the formal fluidity of lyric expression and the
  peculiar nature of the chorus’s subjectivity to represent and fashion m
 eaning from moments of extreme violence and intimacy. She also researches 
 classical antiquity through the sometimes intersecting lenses of queer the
 ory and queer identity\, with a particular interest in Sappho and contempo
 rary art
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LOCATION:Humanities Center\, CL 602
SUMMARY:Sapphic Threads: Queer Text[ile]s and Ancient Poetry-Dr. Ella Hasel
 swerdt
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/sapphic-threads-queer-textile
 s-and-ancient-poetry
CATEGORIES:Lectures\, Symposia\, Etc.
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