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'Potatoes and Philosophers' by Rebecca Earle

‘Curious Habits: Europe’s Sartorial Understanding of the Early Modern World’ by Giorgio Reillo

'Las Poquianchis: Sex, Serial Killers, and their Significance in Cold War Mexico' by Benjamin Smith

A Marxist/Adornian political aesthetics has generally been dismissive of any post-capitalist ‘return’ to a craft ethic and aesthetics, preferring to view art as alone providing any redemptive or utopian vision. In the light of the contemporary resurgence of craft, and its challenge to the work-ethic obsessions of consumer-culture, the paper will call in question the abstraction and detached radicalism of the Marxist position and consider the ways in which craft might be reclaimed as a component of an avant-garde, post-consumerist political imaginary rather than dismissed for its association with pre-modern social relations and hedonist limits.

External speaker, tba

Rebecca Earle, Potatoes and Philosophers

Giorgio Riello, Curious Habits: Europe’s Sartorial Understanding of the Early Modern World 

Benjamin Smith, Las Poquianchis: Sex, Serial Killers, and their Significance in Cold War Mexico

Novelist and biographer Martin Goodman, director of the Philip Larkin Centre in Hull, will be reading in the ÌÇÐÄTV Review reading series. His reading, from a vampire novel in progress, is free and open to all, and will end at 2.45. It will be followed by a vampire discussion and workshop restricted to students on the ‘Reeling and Writhing’ module (till 4 p.m.). Please support this blood-chilling event!

Michael Hulse

19 February 2014,4pm, Humanities Building, Room: H202

Dr Anna Hajkova (University of ÌÇÐÄTV, Department of History)

Speculations about German Jews: People from Germany in Theresienstadt Ghetto

Dr Hajkova’s is Assistant Professor of Modern European Continental History at ÌÇÐÄTV. Her dissertation "The Prisoner Society in Terezín Ghetto, 1941-1945" focused on the everyday history of the Holocaust, using the Terezín transit ghetto as a springboard to examine larger issues of human behavior under extreme stress.

She is interested in how people in 20th century Central and Eastern Europe arranged their lives, both during the state of exception and after, transitioning to a new kind of everyday life. She also addresses questions of how groups emerge and interact and what roles gender, ethnicity, and culture played in these processes.

Dr Anna Hajkova (University of ÌÇÐÄTV, Department of History)
Speculations about German Jews: People from Germany in Theresienstadt Ghetto

Non-Venezianita and Defacement in Titian’s Portraiture