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”

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”

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”

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”