WORKSHOP

CIAC RESEARCHER SÍLVIA VIEGAS MODERATES WORKSHOP ON MIGRATION(S) AND GLOBAL CRISIS

On 18 November 2022, 16h00, CIAC researcher Silvia Leiria Viegas moderates the workshop “Monsters, Catastrophes, and the Anthropocene: a Postcolonial Critique”. The workshop will be conducted by Gaia Giuliani, author of the book that names the workshop. This session will take place via Zoom, and no registration is required, although participation is limited to the number of places available on the call.

This seminar introduces Gaia Giuliani’s last book Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique, which explores the European and broader Western imaginary of natural disaster, mass migration, and terrorism through a postcolonial inquiry into modern conceptions of monstrosity and catastrophe. This book examines established icons of popular visual culture in sci-fi, doomsday, and horror films and TV series, as well as in images reproduced by the news media to trace the genealogy of modern fears as well as of ontologies and logics of the Anthropocene.

The workshop is part of a series of ‘smart’ seminars organized by the Inter-thematic Group on Migration (ITM) of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. This series of seminars critically engage with migration(s) as a phenomenon that is concomitantly geopolitical and urban, social and cultural, as well as technologically determined by various interoperating regimes of biopolitical surveillance.

Migration(s) and Global Crises adopts a 1 hour ‘smart’ format, where one speaker per seminar is invited to discuss a selected topic in dialogue with the seminar series organizers and audience. The seminar will be held online and open to the public.

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