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GLOBAL UPRISING: Space & Time I: Crowds, Bodies, Affect

Feb 24, 2021 / 12:30-2PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoom signup Uprisings we are told move not by contamination but by resonance.  It’s the affective force of the uprising itself that is the current of both movement and change. Bodies acting together in risk is transformative. A change that starts not with consciousness but with the body, from what was once…

Thinking Space in Cinema and Literature – International Colloquium

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

During this international colloquium, participants will be exploring the question of the relations between cinema and literature through the prism of space on the basis of three approaches: - The Geography of literary and cinematic creation examines the spatial context in which works are produced from a historical, social and cultural point of view; - Geocriticism explores spatial narratives as the result of perception and the substance…