Public Feelings Salon with Lauren Berlant
The inaugural event in BCRW’s Salon series, this engaged dialogue brings together several prominent and influential scholars whose work explores how affect and emotion influence public life. Just as feminism has sought to identify the ways in which the personal and the political are linked, the study of “public feelings” draws our attention to how and why feelings and emotion (assumed to be a private, personal experience) influence politics and notions of social belonging and intimacy. This conversation, moderated by BCRW Director and Professor of Women’s Studies, Janet Jakobsen, focuses on how perceptions of citizenship and solidarity are often bound up in emotions—like optimism, rage, and disgust—and how feelings can govern policy and political debates. Panelists include José Muñoz, Ann Pellegrini, Tavia Nyong’o, and Lauren Berlant.
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More from this event:
- VIDEO: Public Feelings Salon with Lauren Berlant
- VIDEO: José Muñoz: Queer Utopianism and Cruel Optimism
- RESPONSE: Handle with Care (PDF) by Jill H. Casid
- RESPONSE: The Irony of the Solution (PDF) by Kandice Chuh
- RESPONSE: The Transformational Object of Cruel Optimism (PDF) by Patricia Ticineto Clough
- RESPONSE: Slutwalk NYC and Cruel Optimism: A Reaction to Public Feelings Salon (PDF) by Jamia Wilson
- REPLY: Cruel Optimism, Becoming Event: A Response (PDF) by Lauren Berlant
- EVENT: Public Feelings Salon