Keynote Speaker

Emma Dowling, our Keynote Speaker, will speak Friday night, February 10, 2012. Dowling is currently a Lecturer in Ethics, Governance and Accountability at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research focuses on the relationship between social and political conflict and global governance processes and institutions. She is also a member of the NGO Clinic (http://www.ngoclinic.org). Her focus on ethics involves understanding how ethics is increasingly connected to new forms of valorization and measure. Dowling's current work on affect deals with immaterial and reproductive labor in its intersections with gender; she is also concerned with the role of affect in politics and in knowledge production. She is the co-editor of a special issue of the journal Ephemera on Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored (http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/7-1/7-1index.htm) and author of "Producing the Dining Experience: Measure, Subjectivity and the Affective Worker" (Ephemera 7(1): 117 -132). A forthcoming article "The Waitress: On Affect, Method and (Re) Presentation" will be appearing in Cultural Studies ←→ Critical Methodologies in 2012.

We are excited to have her with us. The Keynote Respondents will be Tavia Nyong'o (NYU) and Patricia Clough (CUNY), with an introduction by Barbara Browning (NYU, for Women & Performance).

We have been hard at work scheduling and organizing in The Affect Factory. Thanks again to all those who submitted their fine work. We look forward to seeing you next year. Our preliminary schedule will be posted shortly!