Affect and the Emotions

Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop

Monday, May 16th when

Bellamy Mitchell

PhD Candidate, English and Social Thought, University of Chicago

presents the paper:

“The Danger of the Situation, or, the Indexical Present of Apology

in the Performance Artwork of Adrian Piper and Dr. Vaginal Davis”

Discussant: Leah Pires, Assistant Instructional Professor in the Department of Art History and the MA Program in the Humanities, University of Chicago

Monday, May 16^th, Wieboldt 408, 4:30-6:00pm CT

Note: We’re planning to go out to dinner after this session. If you’d like to join us, please register your interest using this form by Sunday at noon. Thanks!

If you have any questions or concerns, please email Jane Gordon (jgordon616@uchicago.edu).

Image: Adrian Piper, “My Calling (Card) #1” Image courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery

Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop, on zoom, on

Monday, May 9th

when

David Eng

Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, and Professor in the Program in Asian American Studies, the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, and the Program in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences

presents the paper:

The History of the Subject and the Subject of History

for discussion

at 4:30 PM —6:00 PM Central

Materials are available on our website.

Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop, in-person, on

Monday, May 2^nd

when

Ben Jeffery

Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

presents the paper:

Grief is a Troubled Medium: Reading Housekeeping through Loewald

There is a passage in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping(1980) where the narrator describes the effect of a sudden bereavement on an Idaho family. She – the narrator – tells us that the event “had troubled the very medium of their lives. Time and air and sunlight bore wave and wave of shock…” I propose to read the passage through the lens of Hans Loewald’s psychoanalytic work, with the aim of showing how it illustrates an idea he presents about the psychological constitution of external reality.

Discussant:

Amy Levine

PhD Candidate; Department of Philosophy and Committee on Social Thought

This event will take place in

Wieboldt Hall, Room 408

4:30-6:00pm CT

Materials to be discussed are available on our website.

Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop, in-person, on

Monday, April 25th

when

Ilqua Lutfi;

PhD Student, Comparative Human Development

presents the paper

“Intimacy, Hygiene, and Domestic Labor Relations in Karachi”

Discussant:

Jane Gordon; PhD Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

This event will take place in

Wieboldt Hall, Room 408
4:30-6:00pm CT

Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop, remotely, on

Monday, March 7th

when

Blaize Gervais

PhD Candidate in Ethics, University of Chicago Divinity School

presents the paper

Perspectival Objectivity: In Defense of the “Affective Turn” in Epistemology

Discussant: Colin Weaver, PhD Candidate in the Divinity School

This event will take place on Zoom from

4:30-6:00pm CT

This paper addresses concerns about the subjectivity of objectivity through the work of Quill (Rebecca) Kukla. Specifically their work on the separation of aperspectival warrant and ontological objectivity. We defend a potential vulnerability in Kukla’s argument through insights in enactive cognitive science and explore what such a defense means for the role of affect in epistemology writ large.

The paper, to be read in advance, and the Zoom meeting information is available on the website via password. Questions, requests, or concerns may be directed to the coordinators by email.