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CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Lauren Berlant on Precarity

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Dates:3 May 2017
Times:10:00 - 12:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Who is it for:University staff, Current University students
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This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme, 'Precarity'.

Professor Jackie Stacey (English, American Studies and Creative Writing) will lead a seminar for postgraduate students and staff entitled Lauren Berlant on Precarity.

Readings are

Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press, 2011), Introduction and Chapter 1 Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Duke University Press, 1997), Introduction and Chapter 1 Lauren Berlant, Humorless. Serious. Critical. (Talk at the MLA 2017)

All readings are available as PDFs here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sfkkwo9ne4x9kz2/AADzkkoWheQT3rCguNZQcYJra?dl=0

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tristan.burke@manchester.ac.uk

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