Antigone’s Afterlife in Feminist Theory: Bonnie Honigin Conversation with Stefani Engelstein

Conversation as part of the virtual colloquium “Antigone’s Worldings” at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University

Join us for a conversation between feminist political theorists, Bonnie Honig and Stefani Engelstein, as they reflect on their mutual explorations of Antigone through the more horizontal lenses of sibling logics and sororal actions, and the ways in which such a focus has opened new paths of inter-related research for them. How has their work on Antigone influenced their current research on the politics of refusal (Honig) and the entanglements of the organism (Engelstein)?

Stefani Engelstein is Professor of German Studies at the German Studies Department at Duke University and research fellow at the ZfL with the project Living Things, Human Beings: The Entanglements of the Organism.

Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University.