International, Interdisciplinary Workshop
Friday, 20 June 2008
Wood Room, Plassey House
University of Limerick
This workshop will focus on gendered emotional
performances: their rewards, representations and punishments. Men
and women in past and present have always lived under emotional
regimes whose rules differed according to sex. Within these regimes
they often had some agency to display correct or incorrect feelings.
In how far was this gendered display rewarded or punished? The
workshop will address the social boundaries of gendered emotional
performances.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Lauren Berlant, The University of Chicago
After the Good Life, the Impasse: Human Resources,
Time Out, and the Precarious Present
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Charles Parsons Lecture Theatre, C 1063
“After the Good Life, the Impasse: Human Resources, Time Out, and the
Precarious Present” looks at the spread of precarity across different class
locations across Europe : precarity as a discourse and an experience of
expanding contingency in the neoliberal present. Cantet's films produce the
transitional moment of the present as a variety of kinds of loss of familial,
economic, and phantasmatic assurance. The talk attends to the uneven relation
between the erosion of ways of life and ways of experiencing life; the
complexities of improvising economic and of personal habits of being; the
dynamics of forms of structural (political and economic) modes of obligation in
relation to habits of social deference, intimacy, and fantasy.
Workshop Documents
Programme
Participants and Abstracts
Everyone is very welcome to attend the keynote address.
There is a limited number of places available for the workshop
during the day.
For further information please contact:
Dr. Willemijn Ruberg
Email:
Willemijn.Ruberg@ul.ie
Tel.: 00353(0)61213128
