Center for Gender and Politics of the Belgrade Univ.; Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey; Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Washington Univ. in St Louis
Venue: Inter-University Center (IUC), Dubrovnik
Time: May 26th to May30th, 2014
Deadline for applications is January 20th, 2014
Contemporary theoretical shifts toward affect emerged as a critique of post structuralism’s failure to accommodate or even recognize those central facts about human experience that “cannot be translated into words without doing violence” (Anna Gibbs), such as: „a body’s capacity to affect and to be affected“ (Gregory Seigworth & Melissa Gregg). Following the line of this epistemological turn away from language, we invite different interpretations of affect and seek interdisciplinary approaches that examine connections between affect and feminist politics. We are interested in examining the relation between meaning and sense, representation and event, perception and experience, capital and objects of emotions, in order to try and answer the question about whether a focus on affect, not only as a force manifested on a personal level (as emotion), but as an Continue reading
