Distinguished Visitors Program Talk by Tim Dean, James A. Benson Professor in English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Talk on Friday, April 11, 2025 at 1:30pm (tea at 1:15pm) in VCAM 201

“Hatred of Sex and the Embrace of Identity" 

Taking off from Dean's recent book, Hatred of Sex, this lecture considers some philosophical and political implications of the psychoanalytic antithesis between sexuality and identity, particularly for an era in which personal and social identities hold special significance.

Tim Dean is the James M. Benson Professor in English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the author of Beyond Sexuality (2000), Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (2009), and (with Oliver Davis) Hatred of Sex (2022).

This event is sponsored by the Philosophy Department in conjunction with the Distinguished Visitors Program.