(Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center)
Rape : The Question of Experience
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
This
paper will explore the complications involved in decisively naming, and thus interpreting,
experiences of sexual violation. The issues for survivors are twofold: how do
we settle on an interpretation, a word, even, when we articulate experiences of
sexual violation? And, can we imagine a discursive relativism at work in regard
to such events? These questions obviously connect to more general epistemological
questions about the nature of experience formation and the role that experience
plays in our formation of knowledge. If our experiences are discursively and
historically constituted, even in part, by the happenstance of the cultures we
are born into, by what Foucault wonderfully called our historical a priori, how
does this alter the epistemic status, and fruitfulness, of experience claims?
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
12:00pm
Carleton University
Patterson Hall
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