Lunchtime Seminar on Rural Imaginations with Esther Peeren and Tjalling Valdés Olmos | 15 Aug | 1pm
WiSER warmly invites you to a lunchtime seminar on Rural Imaginations
with Esther Peeren and Tjalling Valdés Olmos (University of Amsterdam)
This is a shared seminar: Esther Peeren will speak on Scenes of Extraction: Mediating Rurality, Wilderness and Hinterland and Tjalling Valdés Olmos will discuss Unsettling US Rurality: Indigenous Comedy, Affect, and Decolonizing Genres of Spatialization in Reservation Dogs. Peeren explores how rurality, wilderness and hinterland, as actualities and affectivities, mediate each other, and what critical potentialities such mediation has. Valdés Olmos considers US rurality as a settler genre of spatialized relationality and how contemporary and popular Indigenous American imaginaries assert a different relational engagement with non-urbanized space, and those that inhabit it, in non-proprietary terms.
Esther Peeren is Professor of Cultural Analysis at the University Amsterdam and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Currently, she leads the European Research Council-funded project Rural Imaginations. Her books include Intersubjectivity and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond (Stanford University Press, 2008) and The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility (Palgrave, 2014), as well as numerous co-edited volumes on cultures of globalization and the forthcoming volume Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment, and Care.
Tjalling Valdés Olmos is a lecturer in the department of Literary & Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He works across transnational and interdisciplinary fields of decolonial and queer studies, and his research is generally concerned with the relations between genre and affect as well as the cultural analysis of settler colonialism, capitalism, sexuality, race, contemporary popular culture, and non-urbanized geographies.
Tuesday 15th August
1pm
In-person
WiSER Seminar Room