Postgraduate Masterclass: Affect and the Ordinary

The next postgraduate masterclass will take place on Wednesday 29th September 2010, at 10.30 am in the Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane.

The masterclass, entitled ‘Affect and the ordinary’ will be led by Professor Kathleen Stewart, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Prof Stewart is a world leading theorist of affect and cultural generativity in everyday life, with a particular ethnographic focus on the contemporary United States.  Her works – which include the monographs ‘A Space at the Side of the Road’ (Princeton Univ Press, 1996) (which received Honorary Mentions for several prestigious awards, including the Victor Turner prize for ethnographic writing) and ‘Ordinary Affects’ (Duke University Press, 2007) have been characterized not only by their theoretical sophistication, but by the use of innovative writing strategies designed to capture the intensities of ordinary ways of living.

The workshop is open to postgraduate students from across the university. Places are strictly limited – to reserve a place please email Delrene on dja34 [at] cam.ac.uk as soon as possible.