When: Thursday, Feb. 9, 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Where: Norlin Library, fifth floor, Center for British and Irish Studies room
We live in a world of moving things鈥攐ur bodies, nature, cities. And sometimes听our thoughts, our maps, our schemes slide over the top. The more the movement can be sensed and charted, the more that uncertainty in perilous times can be reconsidered.
If affect听is simply the capacity to be moved, finding those points of connection, when those connections matter, might inform how we think, write听and gesture, as well as听our schemes for preservation and justice.听
On Thursday, Feb. 9, Kathleen Stewart, chair and professor at University of Texas at听Austin,听will speak on听affect: the ordinary, the senses, and modes of ethnographic engagement based on curiosity and attachment.听
Stewart's first book听A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America (Princeton University Press, 1996) portrays a dense and textured layering of sense and form laid down in social use. In the composition and suffering of present moments lived as immanent events, her book听Ordinary Affects (Duke University Press, 2007) maps the force of encounters, desires, bodily states, dream worlds听and modes of attention and distraction. Stewart's current project听Worlding听tries to approach ways of collective living through an attunement.
Please contact the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at pwr@colorado.edu听or听303-492-8188 with any questions about the event.
