European Identities and Encounters Research Group 2009-10
Thursday 15 October at 2.30pm Launch Event Michaelmas Term 2009
Contrasting affects: Europe in documentaries
3 short-documentaries screening.
Aspects of EU as presented in three diverse short-documentaries depictive of different pro- or anti- European discourses.
Presentation of the group's activities and an open discussion will follow.
Thursday 29 October at 2.30pm
Lecture: Dr A Kesby, St John's College, Cambridge
International Law and Borders
Thursday 12 November at 2.30pm
Dr P van Houten, Lecturer in Politics, Cambridge
The Effect of the EU and European Integration on Regional Autonomy
Movements
Friday 20 & Saturday 21 Nov - Graduate Conference
Complexities of 'Europe': Between knowledge, power, citizenship and identity
Lent Term 2010
Thematic readings on Affect
The sessions will include oral presentations of the pre-selected readings (3-4 presentations per session of approx. 5-10 minutes each) followed by free discussion between attendants.
This term’s reading sessions will eventually lead to a series of presentation of graduate research case studies or invited scholar’s work during Easter term 2010.
Monday 18 January 2010
Challenging Identities -Introducing Affect
To access the Readings please contact Leonidas:
Spinoza, B. 1992. Ethics. Indianapolis: Hackett.
(Alternatively, we could pick the following chapter, in order to minimize the volume of the readings:
Spinoza, Baruch (1677) "Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects.")
Deleuze, G. 1998. “Spinoza and the Three ‘Ethics’,” in Gilles Deleuze: Essays Critical and Clinical. London: Verso.
Guattari, F. 1996. "Ritornellos and Existential Affects," in G. Genosko, ed. The Guattari Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
Massumi, Brian, 1995. “The Autonomy of Affect.” Cultural Critique, no. 31, pp. 83-109.
Monday 1 February, 12.00pm
Emotions or Affect?
To access the Readings please contact Leonidas
Ahmed, Sara. 2004. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. New York: Routledge., or Ahmed, Sara (2004) “Affective Economies” Social Text 22: 2
Lutz, Catherine and Lila Abu-Lughod, eds 1990. Language and the Politics of Emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (possibly, chapters by Ewing, Crapanzano, Stocking, Schwartz), or, Lutz, Catherine and Geoffrey M. White, 1986. "The Anthropology of Emotions. "Annual Review of Anthropology 15, pp. 405-36.
Historein, 2009. Vol. 8
Avery Gordon. 1997. Introduction from: Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minnesota UP: 3-28.
Monday 15 February, 12.00pm
Agency and Affect
Readings:
Agamben, Giorgio. 2004. The Open: Man and Animal. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Brennan, Teresa. 2004. “Introduction” Transmission of Affect. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Stoler, A. L. 2004. "Affective States," Joan Vincent and David Nugent, eds. A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Aretxaga, B. 2003 "Maddening States," Annual Reviews of Anthropology 32: pp. 393-410.
Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence, Ethos, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Jun., 1995), pp. 123-148)
Monday 1 March, 12.00pm
Space, Politics, Affect
To access the Readings please contact Leonidas
Clough, P. T. 2007. The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. Duke: Duke UniversityPress.
Thrift, Nigel, 2004. “Intensities of Feeling: Towards a Spatial Politics of Affect.”Geografiska Annaler 86 B: pp. 57-78.
Navaro-Yashin, Yael, 2009. “Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects: Ruination andthe Production of Anthropological Knowledge.” Malinowski Memorial Lecture. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) 15:1, pp. 1-18.
Kathleen Stewart, From A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an “Other” America. Princeton UP, 1996. 90-116.
Easter Term 2010
The Group will not be meeting during this term.
