Pressures of the Unbearable: A Critical Conversation, a keynote address given by Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, is held from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, April 7, in Halpin-Harrison Hall, Stimpson Auditorium. Berlant, the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, and Edelman, the Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University, are co-authors of ”Sex, or the Unbearable” ​(2014). Presented in conjunction with the 2017 Virginia Humanities Conference (VHC). This keynote address is FREE and open to the public. To attend other VHC 2017 events, register at vahumanitiesconference.org. For more information, contact the President of VHC 2017 Petra Schweitzer, Ph.D., at pschweit@su.edu or 540/545-7380.