Professors Jonathan Goldberg and Michael Moon of Emory University will be presenting the keynote address entitled “On the Eve of the Future.” Professor Goldberg will be discussing the Eve Sedgwick’s unpublished work that he’s assembling as her literary executor, while Professor Moon will speak about the continuing impact of Sedgwick’s work.

Hello and welcome to the “Spanking and Poetry” blog. Allen, Tracy, and I (Margaret) are very excited to be organizing a two-day conference that seeks to extend the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. We’ll be setting up a variety of panels of papers, but will also be putting together an art exhibit that showcases works that “combin[e] written text with other visual media,” as Sedgwick and her students explored in various iterations of her How to do Things with Words and Other Materials class. We welcome both paper proposals and art proposals.