Events
MOBILITIES SYMPOSIUM: John Urry’s Living Legacy
12-4pm. To launch a series of events on ‘Critical Mobilities Theory’, Rodanthi Tzanelli introduces an afternoon of dialogues on the work of John Urry with other pioneers of the ‘new mobilities’ paradigm. With Mimi Sheller, Michael Haldrup, Jennie Germann Molz, Ole B.Jensen, Jonas Larsen & James Faulconbridge.
THE BAUMAN UNDERGROUND: No Future? (1) – Anna Tsing
The opening discussion of The Bauman Underground seminar this year, with the theme ‘No Future? On critical theory in the ruins of capitalism’. We will explore themes and possibilities in the light of Anna Tsing’s (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World: On The Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins.
MOBILITIES SEMINAR: Interrogating criticality in tourism analysis (1)
4-5.30pm. ‘The Tourism Archive as Economic and Intellectual Infrastructure: Notes on Train Maya, Mexico’, presented by Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, UCSD, with M.E. Korstanje, Noel Salazar, Mimi Sheller, Manuel Ángel Santana Turégano, Christine Lundberg, Vassilios Ziakas & Ilia Alvarado-Sizzo.
MOBILITIES SEMINAR: Interrogating criticality in tourism analysis (2)
4-5.30pm. ‘Intimate Geopolitics of Mobility: Lauren Berlant and the Affects of Tourism’. Presented by Mary Mostafanezhad, UH Manoa & Roger Norum. Univ. of Oulu, with Graham Huggan, Ole B. Jensen, Jennie Germann Molz, Christine Lundberg, Vassilios Ziakas, Ilia Alvarado-Sizzo & Michael Haldrup.
MOBILITIES SEMINAR: Interrogating criticality in tourism analysis (3)
4-5.30pm. ‘Unlonely Planet: Entangling for Good in Tourism Nature Cultures’. Presented by Kellee Caton, Thompson Rivers University, with Ana Maria Munar, Graham Huggan, Dominic Lapointe, Christine Lundberg, Vassilios Ziakas & Ilia Alvarado-Sizzo.
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Zygmunt Bauman, Culture and Art: Selected Writings Vol.1
Book launch of a new edited volume of Zygmunt Bauman’s unpublished writings on Culture and Art
The Bauman Underground: Militant Epistemologies (8) – Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Molly Geidel (UoManchester), Vania Belen Suarez Botelho and Nic Salazar-Sutil (UoL) discuss the postcolonial Bolivian theorist of indigenous identities and cultures / STARTS AT 5PM
The Bauman Underground: Militant Epistemologies (7) – Achille Mbembe
Muneeb Hafiz (Lancaster University) and Rebecca Porter (SSP) discuss critical applications of the key decolonial thinker, Achille Mbembe / STARTS AT 5PM
PGR: Bauman Annual Graduate Workshop – Future Cities, Future Citizenship
A workshop for graduate students in social and critical theory, with presentations of work in progress and feedback discussion
The Bauman Underground: Militant Epistemologies (6) – Theodor Adorno
Negative dialectics anyone? Jon Catlin (Princeton Univ.) and Jack Palmer discuss the contemporary relevance of Theodor Adorno’s hardcore Marxism
MOBILITIES: Psychogeography, Flanerie or Pilgrimage? New works by Rodanthi Tzanelli
DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH. Invited discussants Dominic Lapointe, Ole B. Jensen, and Noel Salazar discuss Rodanthi Tzanelli’s new works
The Bauman Underground: Militant Epistemologies (5) – Sabu Kohso
Activist, theorist and translator, Sabu Kohso, joins us from New York, with Ruskin School of Art’s Jason Waite, to discuss his new book with Duke UP
The Bauman Underground: Militant Epistemologies (4) – Lauren Berlant
RECONFIRMED (CO-ORG WITH CIGS). Ruth Holliday and Adrian Favell discuss Cruel Optimism – What is affect theory, and is it a “militant epistemology”?
ARTS: Austin Harrington’s new book on Georg Simmel
Invited commentators Tom Kemple, Elizabeth Goodstein and Nicola Marcucci discuss a new collection of Georg Simmel’s essays edited by Austin Harrington
Albena Azmanova talk
Albena Azmanova, from our International Advisory Network, presents her recent book Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia.