TalkAnarchitecture after Everything

Date & Time: December 9, 2025 (Tue), 17:30–19:30
Venue: SK110, Shiko-kan, Karasuma Campus, Doshisha University
Language: English
Speakers: Jack Halberstam among others

2025.11.20 UP
©Gordon Matta-Clerk,

©Gordon Matta-Clerk, "Day's End", 1975

OUTLINE

“ANARCHITECTURE AFTER EVERYTHING”
There was an art movement in the US from the 1970’s that was committed to unbuilding, dismantling and undoing abandoned structures across New York City. Prof. Halberstam extracts a queer and trans vocabulary from this movement and use it to outline new strategies for trans and queer politics now.

DATE&TIME

December 9 (Tue) 17:30- 19:30

VENUE

SK110, Shiko-kan, Karasuma Campus, Doshisha University

LANGUAGE

English

SPEAKERS

Main Speaker: Jack Halberstam (Professor at Columbia University)
Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto (MIT Press, Forthcoming, 2026) among many others. He was named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.

Interlocutor: Professor Kazuya Kawaguchi (Hiroshima Shudo University)

Moderator: Yuka Kanno (Doshisha University)

ORGANIZERS

Organizer:FGSS, International Institute of American Studies, Research Unit 4
Co-organizer: MICCS