About this Event
QUB's ÆRN: Affect and Emotion Research Network invites you to a workshop on the topic of 'affect, emotion, and the politics of crisis.' From democratic backsliding to climate breakdown, crises increasingly define political and social life. But how do affect and emotion shape our experience of crisis, and our capacity to respond? This workshop brings together researchers working at the intersection of affect, emotion, and political life to explore how affective dynamics shape responses to, and experiences of, crisis. It features presentations by network members, and a keynote address by leading international scholar on the politics of emotion, Prof. Deborah Gould (University of California, Santa Cruz, author of the award-winning Moving Politics: Emotion and Act Up's Fight Against Aids).
Programme: “Affect, Emotion & the Politics of Crisis”
9:30-10 Coffee/arrival
10:00-12:00 Panel 1:
Debbie Lisle: “The Affective Force of Productive Failure”
Suzanne Whitten (Queen’s University Belfast) and Anni Carlsson (Swedish Defence University): “Incivility or Hate Speech? Quran Burnings and the Limits of Civic Respect”
Clara Fischer: “Post-Nationalism, Post-Crisis, Post-Repeal: Abortion Travel, Emotion, and National Identity in Ireland”
Shona Rooney: “The Manosphere: The Emotion Culture Underpinning Masculine Norms Within Online Misogynistic Spaces”
12-12:30 Lunch
12:30-14:00 Panel 2:
Merav Amir: ““The subject said that he loves me”: Bureaucratic narrations of affect from the torture chamber”
Rebecca Bamford: “Unrequited: Love and Knowledge”
Jonathan Heaney: “Affect, Emotion, and Experience: Between Pragmaticism and Process”
14:00-14:30 Coffee
14:30-16:00 Keynote:
Prof. Deborah Gould: “What Now? Affect and the Question of Composition”
Organized around three central concepts—composition, affect, and structures of feeling—this talk offers an affective read of the current conjuncture and asks about the tasks of a left organizing project amid what I will argue is an open moment.
This event is free, but spaces will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. The workshop is hybrid, so please book an online attendance ticket if wishing to participate online.
The event is supported by a QUB Faculty Research Initiatives Award and by QUB Illuminate funding.
For queries, please contact the workshop organisers, Dr. Jonathan Heaney ([email protected]) and Dr. Clara Fischer ([email protected])
All welcome!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Maths & Physics Teaching Centre / 0G / 017, Queen's University Belfast, University Rd, Belfast, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
