Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. The third meeting of the Historical Discourse Reading Group will take place at Queen Mary College in the Arts Building in room G.02 on Wednesday 9th December from 5:00 to 6:30 pm. The text for this meeting can be found on my webspace: http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/sbaumgarten/ . The PDF-file contains the introduction and chapter one of Judith Butler's book "Excitable Speech - Politics of the Performative". The introduction serves to give you a better idea of the book, whilst on the day we will talk only about chapter one in detail. Looking forward to seeing you then. Best, Stefan -- Dr Stefan Baumgarten Historical Discourse Working Group School of Languages, Linguistics and Film Queen Mary, University of London 327 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS Home: 0044-(0)20-7790-6309 Office: 0044-(0)20-7882-5284 Mobile: 0044-(0)7506-120815 email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/staff/baumgarten.htm Webspace: http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/sbaumgarten/