Workshop mit Prof. Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago)

After the public lecture on Wednesday evening there will be the opportunity for an in-depth conversation with Lauren Berlant on Thursday morning. A short input by Lauren Berlant will be followed by a discussion of her lecture as well as of selected texts

Lauren Berlant holds the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Her work has focused on a politics of affects and feelings in the U.S. nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is published, for instance, in her trilogy on national sentimentality – The Anatomy of National Fantasy (1991), The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (1997), The Female Complaint (2008) – or in her publication Cruel Optimism (2011).

This is a cooperation of the Forschungsgruppe Gender and Politics/ipw lectures (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna), of the Gender Research Office/Gender Talks (University of Vienna), of the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) and of the Forschungsverbund Gender & Agency (University of Vienna).