Reparative Practices: Reading, Living, Loving - A workshop with Ann Cvetkov...
Event Information
Description
You are warmly invited to join us in an exploration of the art and
philosophy of the reparative. Building on Eve Sedgwick’s exploration of
the interweaving of paranoid and reparative critical modes, we’ll
respond to the call for non-dualistic thought, and for exploratory ways
of being and thinking that embrace deferral, digression and
inconclusiveness. We’ll think about the role of reparative modes in
gender studies, queer theory and affect studies, and we’ll consider the
politics of this approach in goal-driven, time-poor, and intellectually
impoverished cultures. We’ll also investigate relationships between
reparative practices, health and well being.
Full programme to follow soon. The event is free but spaces are limited. If you have questions about the event please contact Holly Furneaux, furneauxh@cardiff.ac.uk
Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (Rutgers, 1992); An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke, 2003); and Depression: A Public Feeling (Duke, 2012). She co-edited (with Ann Pellegrini) “Public Sentiments,” a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, and (with Janet Staiger and Ann Reynolds) Political Emotions (Routledge, 2010). She has been coeditor, with Annamarie Jagose, of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Her current writing projects focus on the current state of LGBTQ archives and the creative use of them by artists to create counter-archives and interventions in public history. See more on Ann’s work at http://www.anncvetkovich.com
Programme
10.30 Arrivals and coffee
11:00 Ann Cvetkovich, 'After Depression: The Sovereignty of the Senses’, Q & A
12:00 Roundtable 1: Responses to Eve Sedgwick’s thinking of paranoid/reparative modes and what to do with it
Ben Winyard (chair), Ann Cvetkovich, Holly Furneaux, Josh Robinson
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Martin Willis, ‘George Eliot and the Ethics of Care’, Q & A
2.45 Roundtable 2: Reparative approaches: Slow living, Vulnerability, Intellectual virtues, Global queer movements
Holly Furneaux (chair), Serena Bassi, Wendy Parkins, Alessandra Tanesini
3.45 Tea and cake
