Monthly Archives: May 2017

International conference “Visual Worlds: The Aesthetics and Politics of Affect”

The conference VISUAL WORLDS: THE AESTHETICS AND POLITICS OF AFFECT will bring together international scholars from diverse fields of the humanities such as literary studies, cultural studies, film studies, material culture studies, and social science to discuss interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to visually immersive social and cultural environments (media, urban settings, virtual reality, performance, and digital culture). Discussions will …

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Lecture: “Top-down Multiculturalism versus Multiculturalism from Below” by Sneja Gunew, Professor Emerita University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Lecture on May 29th Monday 12.15-1.15, rm 243 “Top-down Multiculturalism versus Multiculturalism from Below” by Sneja Gunew, Professor Emerita University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada Sneja Gunew (FRSC) B.A. (Melbourne), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Newcastle, NSW) has taught in England, Australia and Canada. She has published widely on multicultural, postcolonial and feminist critical theory and …

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