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!"
Yesterday's Panel 2 at #BritCult2024 - Merle Tönnies & Dennis Henneböhl gave a great talk on the emotional rhetoric of the 2024 GB election, Andrew Wells on Liberty & Carolin Steinke on shame & the female body in Irish Nation-Building (#MagdaleneLaundries)
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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..."
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