CentreLGS Annual Lecture

Friday 18 March 2005, 6.30-8.00pm

New Lecture Theatre 2,
University of Westminster
Regent Street, London W1

“If There Is Such a Thing:
Race, Sex, and the Politics of Enjoyment in the Killing State”

A lecure by Kendall Thomas

Nash Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University in the City of New York. Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School, and at Princeton University. His publications include "Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Founded the Movement" (The New Press, 1996) and "What's Left of Theory?" (Routledge Press, 2000). Kendall Thomas was an inaugural recipient of the Berlin Prize Fellowship of the American Academy in Berlin, Germany and a member of the Special Committee of the American Center in Paris, France. Past chair of the Jurisprudence and Law & Humanities sections of the Association of American Law Schools. Founding member of the Majority Action Caucus of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Sex Panic! and the AIDS Prevention Action League. Former member and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Gay Men's Health Crisis.

A transcript of this lecture is available online at: www.yale.edu

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For more information, please contact:
AHRC Centre Co-Ordinator, Eliot College, University of Kent, CT2 7NS. Tel: +44 (0)1227 824474/Fax: +44 (0)1227 827399, or Email centre-lgs@kent.ac.uk.