About the Annual Lecture

The Sex in Theory Annual Lecture is hosted by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF). Launched in 2022 as the Queer Theory Annual Lecture, the event has since been renamed to reflect our broader interest in the persistence of sex as an object of thought in the theoretical humanities, as well as in the expansive and evasive field that constitutes the sexual itself. Taking a purposefully capacious approach, the series considers the role of sex, broadly construed, in the making and unmaking of the modern human subject, in ethics and intersubjective relations, and in aesthetic and cultural production.