FID Anglo-American CultureThis year's #BritCult was off to a great start today with the 1st joint keynote by Elisabeth Lechner & Greta Olson on current questions & issues of #Feminism - incl how to avoid getting sucked into anti-feminists' toxic discourses 🧛🦇
#BritCult has published a #CfP #CallForPapers for their conference in November 2025
Deadline: 19 March 2025
Topic: Re-Orientating Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness, Trans* in Cultural Studies Today
https://www.britcult.de/category/conferences/
#GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CulturalStudies #BritishStudies
#BritCult2024 ended on a high note with Tamara Radak's talk on See Red Women's Workshop with great political poster art, and Dilara Yilmaz's talk on #sadgirl books, as a social media phenomenon on the #bookmarket (#booktok), especially by #IrishWriters #IrishLiterature
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In #BritCult2024 panel 5, Irene Valenti & Deborah de Muijnk explored affects related to #PercyByssheShelley's political poetry & #OscarWilde's #DorianGray respectively
In today's 1st panel of #BritCult2024 Ellen Grünkemeier presented her reading of the recent AppleTV+ series #CriminalRecord, read with Calvin & Hobbes & Ken Loach, while Jana Gohrish presented Steve McQueen's 2021 documentary "Uprising"
The 2nd keynote at yesterday's #BritCult2024 was given by Ann Cvetkovich about public feelings in a time of broken infrastructures. She gave the audience room for a personal writing exercise, acknowledging our feelings
We also heard a thoughtful conversation between Joanna Rostek & Gerold Sedlmayr on the role of #CulturalStudies in times of affective polarisation - on speechlessness, optimism and pessimism. Their appeal: "Dare to hope - train that Utopian muscle!"
Day 2 of #BritCult2024 started w a panel on class & politics of emotion in 3 great talks by Susanne Bayerlipp (Burberry & Chav culture), Julia Boll (Neoliberal framing of community volunteering) & Anja Hartl (class & shame in Kieran Hurley's "Mouthpiece")
Today was the first day of #BritCult2024 at @uniinnsbruck !
The beautiful scenery of the Alps is breathtaking.
Today's keynote was by Carolyn Pedwell on #intuition & AI. She asked, "Perhaps we are trained intuitively to speak in the language of Capitalism..."
