Critical Theory Colloquium
Critical Theory Colloquium
English | College of Arts and Humanities
Friday, November 18, 2011 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Tawes Hall,
3132
The final fall meeting of
the Critical Theory Colloquium is on Friday, November 18, 4:00-6:00 pm, in
Tawes 3132. All faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend.
The readings are now available on the Colloquium's secure web page. If you need
login information for that page, please contact me (wcohen@umd.edu).
As a preview to the spring semester, the Colloquium will again meet on Friday
afternoons, 4:00-6:00 pm. The meeting dates are: Jan. 27, Feb. 17, March 9,
April 6, May 4, 2012.
The readings for Nov. 18 are:
- Kath Woodward, Embodied Sporting Practices: Regulating and Regulatory Bodies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), ch. 2, "Body Matters."
- Couze Venn, "Individuation, Relationality, Affect: Rethinking the Human in Relation to the Living," Body & Society 16, no. 1 (2010): 129-61.
- Nigel Thrift, "Intensities of Feeling: Towards a Spatial Politics of Affect," Geografiska Annaler, ser. B, 86, no. 1 (2004): 57-78.
- Lawrence Grossberg, "Affect's Future" (Reader).