Monday, October 11 | Brandon Sward on “How to make site-specific art when sites themselves have histories: Whittier Boulevard as Asco’s ‘camino surreal’”
Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop
Monday, October 11th when
Brandon Sward
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
presents his paper:
“How to make site-specific art when sites themselves have histories:
Whittier Boulevard as Asco’s ‘camino surreal’”
Discussant: Tina Post, Assistant Professor, Department of English, and Director of Creative Research, Committee on Theater and Performance Studies
Monday, October 11th, remotely via Zoom, 4:30-6:00pm CT
The paper, to be read in advance, and the Zoom link for the session are available on our website. If interested in attending, please email Jane Gordon (jgordon616@uchicago.edu) for access to the paper and details of the session.
Image: Asco, First Supper (After a Major Riot), 1974. Image credit: Harry Gamboa, Jr.
Teaching Affect and the Emotions: A Panel Discussion
Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop
Monday, May 17th
For our Final Session of the Year when,
Michal Zechariah
Phd Candidate in English, University of Chicago
&
Bellamy Mitchell
Phd Candidate in English and Social Thought, University of Chicago
&
Alex Jania
Phd Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Discuss:
Teaching Affect and the Emotions
(A Panel Conversation)
Monday, May 17th on Zoom
4:30-6:00pm CT
Maïté Marciano on “The Politics of Disaffection in The Stranger: a Modern Flat Voice”
Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop
Monday, May 3rd when
Maïté Marciano
Phd Candidate in Comparative Literature, Department of French and Italian, Northwestern University
presents her paper:
The Politics of Disaffection in The Stranger: a Modern Flat Voice
Leif Turner (Master’s Student, MAPH , University of Chicago) will serve as Discussant
Monday, May 3rd on Zoom
4:30-6:00pm CT
Materials and zoom link available on our website password: “flat”
Protected: Materials for Marciano’s “The Politics of Disaffection in The Stranger: a Modern Flat Voice”
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine):Global Racial Capitalism, Apocalypse, and Unaffectedness, in Ling Ma’s Severance
Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop
Monday, April 26th when
Michelle Chow
Master’s Student, MAPH , University of Chicago
presents her paper:
“It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine):
Global Racial Capitalism, Apocalypse, and Unaffectedness, in Ling Ma’s Severance“
Niuniu Teo will serve as Discussant
Monday, April 26th on Zoom
4:30-6:00pm CT
Materials and zoom link available on our website password: “severance”
Protected: Materials for Michelle Chow’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
Sunwoo Lee on “Pain in Egyptian Literary Narratives”
Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop
Monday, April 12th when
Sunwoo Lee
PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
presents her paper:
“Pain in Egyptian Literary Narratives”
Joey Cross will serve as Discussant
Monday, April 12th on Zoom
4:30-6:00pm CT
Materials and zoom link available on our website password: “pain”
Protected: Materials for Sunwoo Lee “Pain in Egyptian Literary Narratives”
Leif Turner: “‘Us’ in Theory”
Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop
Monday, April 5th when
Leif Turner
Master’s Student, MAPH , University of Chicago
presents his paper:
“’Us’ in theory: Starvation, Reciprocity, and the Subjunctive in Meville’s ‘Bartelby, The Scrivener’ and Gide’s La Porte Étroite”
Maïté Marciano will serve as Discussant
Monday, April 5th on Zoom
4:30-6:00pm CT
Paper, to be read in advance, and zoom link available on our website, password: “bartelby”