SUMMER OF AFFECT! SO MANY THEORIES!

Do YOU Like THEORY? Full body immersion in theory? This is a reminder about Summer SSASS!
There is still time to be an Early Bird. Register by May 31st!

Society for the Study of Affect Summer Seminars! Animations and Provocations
July 29th – August 2nd in Lancaster, Pennsylvania – Millersville University   #SSASS

WEBSITE: http://affectsociety.com/

THERE WILL BE NO BETTER – MORE ENERGIZING, MORE COMMUNITY-BUILDING, MORE HOPEFUL, MORE ENLIGHTENING – WAY TO SPEND A WEEK OF YOUR SUMMER.

Whether you are an undergraduate/Master/PhD student, an early career academic, a tenured faculty person, or someone outside of the academy all-together, the Society for the Study of Affect Summer Seminars provides an AMAZING opportunity to learn, interact, and create alongside two dozen of the most engaging folks (established and up-and-coming scholars) working in/around affect studies from all around the world! COME BE A PARTICIPANT!!

REGISTRATION OPENS on MONDAY, APRIL 1st. Seats in all seminars are available on first come, first served. We recommend registering sooner than later to guarantee your top choices. On June 1st, seminar registration rates will re-set to a higher amount.

Come for just two or three days if you wish to take two seminars. Or stay for the full-week and register for as many as five seminars. Most seminars are capped no more than 25 students.

Seminars
There will be eleven separate seminars offered by convener-duos from a wide range of areas of specialization in addition to affect theories: critical art performance pedagogy, queer theory, trans studies, anti-colonization, critical theories of race, media theory, trauma studies, food ethics, political theory, sound studies, medievalist studies, history of emotion, ethnographic techniques, sensuous scholarship, film theory, religious studies, environmental humanities, educational theory, disability studies, feminist philosophies of care, decolonial and transnational feminism, posthuman theories, post/qualitative methodologies, rhetorical theory, and more.

There are no application requirements – just register and select your seminar!

List of seminars below (offered twice – once Mon-Tues and then again Wed-Friday):

1 – Event-Full Affect – Nathan Snaza + Chad Shomura
2 – We Care a Lot: Theorizing Trans + Queer Affective Labor – Aren Aizura + Hil Malatino
3 – Affect // Violence // Mediation – Rebecca A. Adelman + Michael Richardson
4 – Rethinking Judgements on Post-Truth through the Performance of Affective Toning, Contagion, and Aesthetic Delight – Tony Sampson + Mikey Georgeson
5 – Racial Affects, Racial Embodiment: Shame, Disgust (and more) – Jennifer LeMesurier + Boram Jeong

6 – Scenes: sites of affective world-making and -writing – Kerryn Drysdale + Omar Kasmani
7 – Affect’s Histories: Feeling Pre-Modern – C. Libby + Glenn D. Burger
8 – Global Intimacies – Courtney O’Dell-Chaib + Rebecca Moody
9 – Affective Compositions: Hooks, lures, and temporalities of the already-(future)-felt or Music Research-Creation with Oblique Curiosities – Sarah E. Truman + David Ben Shannon
10 – Putting affect theories to work with/in educational inquiries: Becoming wild – Nancy Lesko + Bessie P. Dernikos

11 – Instant Class Kit – Stephanie Springgay + Andrea Vela Alarcon

OH, and Ann Cvetkovich will also address the SSASS assembled on Wednesday July 31!

ADDITIONAL SCHEDULING
Beyond meeting in seminars, there will also be twice-daily gatherings on each seminar day for ‘animations’ & ‘provocations’ intended to spark conversation and foster cross-contaminations between conveners and all of the seminar participants. If you attended #AffectWTF in 2015 or Capacious#AIMS in 2017, then you already know how uniquely interdisciplinary, convivially non-hierarchical and full-on invigorating these events are.

NOTE: Seminar #11 is offered just once on Wednesday free-of-charge, and the first 25 registrants who choose to do so will be offered the opportunity to sign up for it.

Works in Progress Presentation
We have scheduled concurrent mini-conference style panels on Wednesday July 31st (15 minute presentation slots) for graduate and early career researchers to share research and receive helpful feedback. If you have work in progress that you would like to present at #SSASS, send a message to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> by no later than June 1st if you would like to be considered for a presentation slot.

BEFORE YOU REGISTER:
Read through the seminar descriptions for all the details about participation expectations, any advance readings/writing, and other pertinent matters. Study the schedule closely before registering – you can squeeze into 4 different seminars!

  *   Seminar Cycle 1 – seminars # 1-10 run Mon/Tues
  *   Seminar Cycle 2 – seminars # 1-10 run again Weds (pm)/Thurs/Fri
  *   FREE 11th seminar – Weds only (for the first 25 registrants who choose)
See conference website for a calendar schedule to help you book your seminars

If you have any questions or concerns about the registration process for the different seminars, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

THERE WON’T BE A BETTER PLACE TO BE THIS SUMMER THAN #SSASS!


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