NYU Hosts Cultural Studies Association Meeting

NYU recently hosted the sixth annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, which included numerous panels, plenary sessions, roundtable discussions, and salons.

      Performance artist and Tisch School of the Arts professor Karen Finley gave a special preview performance of her new work “Impulse to Suck: The Performance of the Apology and the Separation Between Sex and State.” In the piece, she examined former Governor Eliot Spitzer’s confession, his apology, the imagining of the sexual encounter, the travel of the escort, the compulsion, the immigrant father’s plan for his son to succeed, and the couples’ imagined therapy sessions.

      The three-day conference was made possible by funding and contributions from NYU’s Department of Art and Public Policy and Department of Performance Studies, both in the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis in the Faculty of Arts and Science, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the NYU Humanities Initiative, and the University of Maryland Program in American Cultures.

—Richard Pierce