About
From #blacklivesmatter to the Dreamers and Standing Rock, to the rise of Trumpism and the re-emergence of white supremacy movements – our current political moment is being shaped by diverse affective, embodied, and performative forms of protest, intervention, community-building, and identity-making. Politics and the Senses seeks to make sense of this virulent and vitalizing moment by exploring the relationship between the sensorial, the embodied, and the political. Our speakers draw from a range of methods and analytic approaches, including performance, visual, media, and sound studies, and they will investigate how the material bodies shape and are shaped by different aesthetic, cultural, political milieus.
Curated by:
Kaitlin M. Murphy, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and John Melillo, Department of English