Collection: Academics

Judith Butler and Michael Roth: A Conversation at the Center for Humanities

Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth spoke with Berkeley's Judith Butler at the Center for Humanities.


Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth spoke with Judith Butler - Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley - at the Center for Humanities on February 13, 2013. Their conversation ranged from Butler's earliest philosophical influences to her pioneering book "Gender Trouble" and her current work on desire and recognition.