Postgraduate Masterclass with Krishan Kumar

Following the Thesis Eleven annual lecture, Krishan Kumar will be delivering a masterclass for postgraduate students. This will be an opportunity for postgraduates to discuss their work with a leading sociologist whose diverse expertise covers nationalism and nation identity, Europe, global history, and problems of historical sociology. Wednesday 11 December, 2-4pm Room: MARB 488 La…

Gernot Böhme Masterclass

   Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences La Trobe University University of Melbourne, Monash University and Thesis Eleven Centre Masterclass Theory of Atmospheres Gernot Böhme Atmospheres – moods and affects in their spatial situations – are the primary reality aesthetics (understood as aesthesis, a general theory of perception) has…

Friday 4 October 2013

Thesis Eleven Centre Postgraduate/Staff Masterclass Dominique Bouchet University of Southern Denmark Consuming Ourselves to Death – The Ethics and Myth of Our Time What is the status of utility and consumption in modernity and postmodernity? I see trans- or postmodernity as a phase of modernity. The modern project of autonomy was, from the start, blurred…