January 27, 2025
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5:30PM
Colloquia Rm. (3rd floor) at the 18th Ave. Library
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“Who ‘We’ Are and How ‘We’ Feel: Tracing Race, Emotion, and Belonging in Western Self-Fashioning, from 15th-Century Europe to the 21st-Century Americas,” Dierdra Reber
Registration Anyone following current US politics will notice steady contrapuntal references to anger and joy. Go back a few centuries and happiness is key in the independence era, both in Europe and the Americas; a few centuries before that, and geopolitics are rife with hatred during the age of Portuguese-dominated exploration that marks the birth of modern Europe. This talk will trace the evolving Western “we” through 600 years of political flashpoints, seeking out connective logic between affective disposition, on the one hand, and, on the other, arguments for inclusion and exclusion inflected by religion, race, geography, and the power of commerce. About Dierdra Reber:Dierdra Reber is Associate Professor of Latin American Culture in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, and author of Coming to Our Senses: Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture (Columbia UP, 2016). Reber is currently working on a follow-up study foregrounding race as a determinant of Western political patterns consolidated by an evolving emotional discourse of legitimation.
Colloquia Rm. (3rd floor) at the 18th Ave. Library
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2025-01-27 16:00:00
2025-01-27 17:30:00
“Who ‘We’ Are and How ‘We’ Feel: Tracing Race, Emotion, and Belonging in Western Self-Fashioning, from 15th-Century Europe to the 21st-Century Americas,” Dierdra Reber
Registration Anyone following current US politics will notice steady contrapuntal references to anger and joy. Go back a few centuries and happiness is key in the independence era, both in Europe and the Americas; a few centuries before that, and geopolitics are rife with hatred during the age of Portuguese-dominated exploration that marks the birth of modern Europe. This talk will trace the evolving Western “we” through 600 years of political flashpoints, seeking out connective logic between affective disposition, on the one hand, and, on the other, arguments for inclusion and exclusion inflected by religion, race, geography, and the power of commerce. About Dierdra Reber:Dierdra Reber is Associate Professor of Latin American Culture in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, and author of Coming to Our Senses: Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture (Columbia UP, 2016). Reber is currently working on a follow-up study foregrounding race as a determinant of Western political patterns consolidated by an evolving emotional discourse of legitimation.
Colloquia Rm. (3rd floor) at the 18th Ave. Library
America/New_York
public
Anyone following current US politics will notice steady contrapuntal references to anger and joy. Go back a few centuries and happiness is key in the independence era, both in Europe and the Americas; a few centuries before that, and geopolitics are rife with hatred during the age of Portuguese-dominated exploration that marks the birth of modern Europe. This talk will trace the evolving Western “we” through 600 years of political flashpoints, seeking out connective logic between affective disposition, on the one hand, and, on the other, arguments for inclusion and exclusion inflected by religion, race, geography, and the power of commerce.
About Dierdra Reber:
Dierdra Reber is Associate Professor of Latin American Culture in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, and author of Coming to Our Senses: Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture (Columbia UP, 2016). Reber is currently working on a follow-up study foregrounding race as a determinant of Western political patterns consolidated by an evolving emotional discourse of legitimation.
