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Knocking on the Door: Complaints and Other Stories About Institutions, Online lecture and discussion, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois

GMT 6pm

Nicholson Distinguished Speaker Lecture/Seminar.

In this lecture, I share some stories of making complaints about abuses of power at universities. I will show how complaints can bring so much about institutions into view. The lecture attends to how and why doors come up in stories about making complaints. It concludes with a consideration of the work of "complaint collectives" and how, by complaining, we can keep "knocking on the door" of institutions not in order to demand entry, but to cause disturbance.

Further details here: https://criticism.english.illinois.edu/public-lecture-complaint-sara-ahmed

Registration link here: https://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wbQXEPHnQqi2ZI6sYidXRQ