Last week, Judith Butler gave a presentation in 106 Jerome Green Hall, most of which I did not really catch because it started at 6:30 and I got there at 7:00. I suppose this is just what happens when you assume any lecture hall is that one big lecture hall in the SIPA building with the comfy chairs. It turns out that it is a room in the adjacent Law School building, which I would have noted in various emails and posters if I did not assume that it was instead that one big lecture hall in SIPA.
Jerome Greene Hall, circled
Hopeful that I’d be able to at least listen to some chatter after the presentation finished, also because it was snowing and I was not going back outside, I stayed and did homework. Some other tardy people unable to get in did not take the situation in such a sleep-deprived serene manner, though. To read a transcript of the event or to watch a YouTube video of a modern hero of queer and feminist discourse is not the same as breaking fire codes to stand in the back of the same room with her presence, and disgruntled students and non-students made their cases to an overworked security guard, who had already turned away over 200 people for the event.
