RICC workshops
In the academic year 2009/10 RICC will be holding workshops that will operate as a cross between a reading group and seminar. It is planned to hold at least three each Semester. Details of any advanced readings (no more than 2-3) will be uploaded to the RICC website. These workshops are open to any academic staff and postgraduate who would like to attend. Please join us.
Topics that we will be exploring are: Cosmopolitan Imaginaries: Interiority and Affect; Alterity, Otherness and Difference; Memory and Forgetting, Objects and Places; Cities and Mobilities; Borders and Boundaries; Violence, Conflict and Legality.
Workshop 1: Wed 7 October 2009
Cultural Imaginaries: Interiority and Affect
Workshop Leaders: Andrew Irving and Jackie Stacey
Readings:
1. Vincent Crapanzano (2003) "Imaginative Horizons" in Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology, 13-38. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
2. Douglas Hollan and C. Jason Throop (2008) "What Ever Happened to Empathy?: Introduction" Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 36(4): 385-401.
3. Doreen Massey (2005) "Part One: Setting the Scene" in For Space, 1-8. London: Sage.
4. Lawrence Rosen (ed) (1995) "Introduction" in Other Intentions: Cultural Contexts and the Attribution of Inner States, 3-11 . Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.
Workshop 2: Wed 28 October 2009
Violence, War and Death
Workshop Leader: Adi Kuntsman
Readings:
1. Michel Foucault (1975-1976) "Society Must Be Defended". Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76. (optional)
2. Achille Mbembe (2003) "Necropolitics", Public Culture 15(1): 11-40.
3. Jasbir K. Puar (2007) "Intimate Control, Infinite Detention: Rereading the Lawrence Case" Terrorist Assemblages:Homonationalism in Queer Times (Chapter 3) (endnotes)
Workshop 3: Wed 17 Feb 2010, 4-6pm
Cosmopolitan Openness: A Critique of Alterity, Otherness and Difference
Workshop Leader: Nina Glick Schiller
Location: University Place 2.219
Readings:
1. Sami Zubaida (2008) "Everyday Cosmopolitanism: Jews & Others in Iraq" IISIM Review 22 (Autumn): 6-13.
2. Floya Anthias (2009) "Thinking through the Lens of Translocational Positionality: An Intersectionality Frame for Understanding Identity and Belonging" Translocations: Migration and Social Change 4(1): 5-20.
Workshop 4: Wed 21 April 2010, 4-6pm
Cosmopolitan Cinema
Workshop Leaders: Felicia Chan and Jackie Stacey
Location: University Place 2.218
Readings:
1. Hamid Naficy (2001) "Introduction and Chapter One" in An Accented Cinema. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2. Naoki Sakai (2009) "How do we Count a Language? Translation and Discontinuity" Translation Studies 2(1): 71-88.
3. Paul Willemen (2005) "For a Comparative Film Studies" Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 6(1): 98-112.
Workshop 5: Wed 12 May 2010, 4-5.30pm
Memory and Forgetting, Objects and Places
Workshop Leaders: Ewa Ochman and Darien Rozentals
Location: University Place 2.219
1. Huyssen, Andreas (2003) "After the War: Berlin as Palimpsest" in Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory, 72-84. Stanford: Stanford UP.
2. Young, James E. (2000) "Memory, Countermemory, and the End of the Monument" in At Memory's Edge, 90-119. New Haven and London: Yale UP.
3. Yampolsky, Mikhail (1995) "In the Shadow of Monuments: Notes on Iconoclasm and Time" in Condee, Nancy (ed) Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia, 93-112. Indiana: Indiana UP.
Workshop 6: Wed 19 May 2010, 10-12am
Urban Charisma: Person and Place-making Processes for Global Cities
Workshop Leaders: Atreyee Sen and Gillian Evans
Location: University Place 3.210 [Cancelled]
1. Thomas Blom Hansen and Oskar Verkaaik (2009) "Introduction – Urban Charisma: On Everyday Mythologies in the City" Critique of Anthropology 29(1): 5-26.
2. (2009) "People and Places: A Framework for Consultation" Legacy Masterplan Framework (February-March)
Workshop 7: Thu 10 June 2010, 11am-1pm
Cities and Mobilities
Workshop Leader: Gyan Prakash
Location: University Place
3.210
1. AbdouMaliq Simone (2009) “The Last Shall be First: African Urbanities and the Larger Urban World,” in Andreas Huyssen (ed.) Other Cities, Other Worlds, 99-119. Duke University Press.
2. Prakash, Gyan (2010) "Dream Worlds", chapter from forthcoming book.
Please email caitriona.devery@manchester.ac.uk to request copy of this reading.