‘Sensory Experiments, Sensory Orders, and Aesthetic Education’, by Premesh Lalu.
Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States....
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'Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New’, by Premesh and Erich Hörl
This conversation between Erich Hörl and Premesh Lalu draws on their extended conversation on efforts to link discordant temporal and spatial encounters with the idea of the university and how, more importantly, to care for the future of its educational responsibilities....
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Waystations of Desire: From Infrastructural Critique to Anticolonial Praxis, by Nancy Luxon
Modernity finds itself in a dissociated state, that is, unable to attach its social energies and political desires to a political vision that resonates and coheres....
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The CHR is a pleased to announce Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Cesare Casarino, at the University of Minnesota will be joining the Centre as a visiting scholar.
The CHR invites you to a colloquium on “Literary Pedagogies: Confronting Colonization” to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research on the 20th and 21st February 2020.
Critical theorist, filmmaker, and associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Northwestern University Domietta Torlasco will be hosted by the CHR from 24 February to 23 March 2020.