From Philomathean Society

Contact: Aro Velmet, Second Censor (secondcensor AT philomathean.org)

The Society shall present annually for the University, the Alumni, and the Public, the Philomathean Annual Oration, to be delivered by a prominent scholar or personage. An annual Alumni Reception shall immediately follow the Oration. The Second Censor in the fall semester shall be in charge of organizing and arranging the Annual Oration for that academic year. (cf. Philomathean Constitution By-Law IX)

2010 Annual Orator: Dr. Judith Butler

From Performativity to Precarity

Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Hall of Flags, Houston Hall
3417 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA

Reception immediately following.

Radical philosopher Judith Butler has contributed immensely to fields ranging from political science to comparative literature, but her influence has undoubtedly been greatest in the field of feminist theory. Her book "Gender Trouble" has become a foundational work of gender studies and her subsequent books have enjoyed similar fame. Professor Butler is currently the Maxine Elliott professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School EGS.

For more about Judith Butler, please visit: her website at UC Berkeley.

Philo thanks its cosponsors for the 2010 Annual Oration: SPEC Connaissance, SPEC Fully Planned, The College of Arts and Sciences, DuBois College House, Penn Program in Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship, Penn Humanities Forum, The LGBT Center, The Women’s Center, Queer Student Alliance, The Departments of Philosophy, History, Women’s Studies, Comparative Literature and Political Science

Some Previous Orators

• Stanley Fish
• Daniel Dennett
• Vali Nasr
• John Lukacs
• Malcolm Nance
• Arthur Miller
• Salman Rushdie
• Joe Klein
• Brian Greene
• George Bacon Wood
• Hon George Sharswood
• Lincoln Eyre
• Henry Steele Commager
• John Ciardi
• Ayn Rand
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Andrew Sullivan
• Camille Paglia
• Fareed Zakaria
• Margaret Mead
• Jerzy Kosinski
• C. Everett Koop
• William Styron
• George Plimpton
• Susan Sontag