The Law School and the Whitney Humanities Center will cohost a conference titled "Postmodernism and Postmodernity: Politics, Law, Culture, Aesthetics," Friday-Saturday,
Feb. 27-28. All sessions will take place at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., and are free and open to the public.
"Our hope is that the symposium will provide the occasion for informed and sympathetic but also critical assessments of the concept of the 'postmodern' -- as an aesthetic, as a set of theoretical claims, as a description of the way we live now, and as a basis for political action," says conference organizer Robert W. Gordon, the Johnston Professor of Law.
The conference will be organized into four panels. On Friday, participants will discuss politics and political economy
(10 a.m.-noon) and racial, ethnic and gender identity (2-4 p.m.). On Saturday, the focus will be on law and justice (9-10:45 a.m.) and culture and aesthetics (11 a.m.-1 p.m.)
Panelists include experts in law, political and economic
theory, and cultural studies from Columbia, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Cornell and New York universities, as well as the University of California at Berkeley. The Yale faculty members who will be participating in the conference include Kenji Yoshino, Jack Balkin, Peter Brooks and Gordon.
For further information, call 432-0673.