Anti-Atlas: Towards a Critical Area Studies + Area Studies in Flux welcome reception

An undisciplined launch event featuring a number of contributors to Anti-Atlas: Towards a Critical Area Studies. Editors: Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell, Michał Murawski. Estimated publication date: Autumn 2019.

Anti-Atlas is positioned at the intersection of several publishing genres: a reader, an edited collection, a manifesto and a travel guide. It will provide its readers with a diverse set of intellectual resources, provoking them to think critically about the ways in which we – scholars, decision makers, producers and consumers – divide the world up into pieces, fencing off certain areas from other ones. Although planetary in scope, Anti-Atlas is compiled from an explicitly East-European point of view, rejecting the usual perspective that hovers, god-like, above the world (but that can also usually be traced to a metropolitan Euro-Atlantic origin).

Speakers:

• Alexandra Urdea (Sussex), 
• Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL SSEES)
• Joanna Kusiak (Cambridge)
• Michał Murawski (UCL SSEES)
• Diana Georgescu (UCL SSEES)
• Maria Mileeva (UCL Art History), 
• Peter Zusi (UCL SSEES)
• Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius (Birkbeck), 
• Charlotte Kühlbrandt (KCL)
• Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Institute for Translocal Studies)

More information about the Anti-Atlas is available here.

All welcome. Please note that there may be photography and/or audio recording at some events and that admission is on a first come first served basis. Please follow this FAQ link for more information.

Image: Collage by Jan Dziaczkowski, from the Keine Grenzen series, 2008