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Anchored by an account of the experience of being stalked by a student, Shadow of My Shadow (Duke, 2024) takes on workplace harassment—the forms of loss it induces, and the paranoid ecologies it nurtures. Jennifer Doyle will share a passage revolving around a detail taken from her own case and join Avgi Saketopoulou in a conversation. Saketopoulou and Doyle share an interest in thinking carefully about vulnerability, the ethics of writing from the case, and a commitment to, as Saketopoulou writes “the opacity in the other” and “the opacity in ourselves.” The intention is to get a dialogue going and to make lots of room for conversation with the audience.
To reserve a copy of In the Shadow of My Shadow (Duke University Press, August 27, 2024, paperback, $25.95), please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of In the Shadow of My Shadow for June 18th event” in the subject line.
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This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD
Jennifer Doyle is the author of Campus Sex/Campus Security (2015), Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (2013), and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectic of Desire (2007). She is also a curator. Her curatorial projects include Scientia Sexualis at the ICA LA (a collaboration with Jeanne Vaccaro, 2024-2025); Nao Bustamante: Soldadera at the Vincent Price Art Museum (2015); and The Tip of Her Tongue, at The Broad in Los Angeles (2015-2017). She teaches at UC Riverside.
Avgi Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and a member of the faculty of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023) and co-author of Gender Without Identity (The Unconscious in Translation, 2023). She is currently at work on her forthcoming book, provisionally titled The Offer of Sadism: Demand, Exigency, Aesthetics.