Aesthetics from the Margins Public Lecture Series
The lecture series Aesthetics from the Margins proposes historical and theoretical inquiries into questions of sensual perception and world-making. By considering different aesthetic forms, media and practices - among them photography, literature, language, and the performing arts - we will explore colonial and postcolonial ways of being in and making sense of 'world(s)', especially of these are articulated from a perspective of marginality.
The lectures took place at the Center for African Studies Basel between September and December 2018.
ERICA CARTER (King's College, London) - White Bodies in Motion
CHRISTIAN CROUCH (Bard College, New York) - Queen Victoria's Captives
HENRI-MICHEL YÉRÉ (University of Lausanne) - If Language Could Speak
BRIAN LARKIN (Columbia University, New York) - The Political Aesthetics of Generators
DARREN NEWBURY (University of Brighton) - Visual Mobility & Cordiality in the Cold War
JANE TAYLOR (University of the Western Cape, Cape Town) - Ne'er So Much The Ape