L’Affaire DSK To Get Academic Conference
Tired perhaps of discussing the Jersey Shore’s heteronormativity and its power dynamic, academics at New York University are next taking up the scandal of the summer–the case of former IMF head Dominique Strauss Kahn and his alleged rape of a maid at the Sofitel Hotel in midtown.
Called, “The DSK Scandal: Transatlantic Reflections on Sex, Law, and Politics, the two day conference “aims at interpreting the transatlantic dimensions of this event.”
“On the one hand,” organizers write in an email that went out last week, “The mutual misunderstandings revealed important differences between France and the United States – not only between the legal systems, but also between the media cultures, as well as the political ones. On the other hand, the political dimensions of the story – in terms of gender, class, and race, and even sexuality – did transcend such national differences.” Read More
