Implications. Theories and new perspectives on art studies

This reading seminar takes place six times a year and each session will focus on a seminal academic book with a wide intellectual reach. Each book will have both a specific historical and a generalisable theoretical aim, with different implications for the ways in which we critically understand, practice, and analyse art and its histories. Participants are encouraged to reflect prior to each session on how each book can contribute to and introduce new perspectives in their own research.

Target group

The seminar is open to PhD students and other early-stage researchers in the fields of art history, visual culture and practice-based research. Max. participants 15.

Purpose

  • To introduce new, transdisciplinary perspectives on arts and practice-based research through shared reading and discussion of key works by authors in fields such as geography, geology, sociology, black studies, and anthropology.
  • To allow participants to discuss their own research projects considering current theoretical and analytical positions and in light of urgent issues.

Programme

Autumn 2024

Session 1 (30 October): Fred Moten / Stephano Harney: The Undercommons, 2016.

Session 2 (27 November): Tina M. Campt: Listening to Images, 2017.

Session 3 (18 December): Christina Sharpe: Ordinary Notes, 2023.

Every time at KU in room: 21.3.04 from 13-16

 

Past activities

Autumn 2023

Session 1 (11 October): Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch. Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, 2004.

Session 2 (15 November): Doreen Massey, for space, 2005.

Session 3 (13 December): Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, 2018.

Spring 2024

Session 1 (6 March): : Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, 2015.

Session 2 (8 May): Sara Ahmed: Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, 2006.

Session 3 (19 June): Dipesh Chakrabarty: The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, 2021.

Every time at KU in room: 16.03.09 from 13-16

Course teacher

Professor Mikkel Bogh

ECTS credits

  • 2 ECTS (for attending three times)
  • 4 ECTS (for attending all six sessions)

Workload

Presence total 18 (9) hours + preparation total 94 (47) hours.

Registration

Please register via email to pass@hum.ku.dk latest one week before each session.