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

27 September 2018, 5:15 pm–7:00 pm

Antiatlas

This event is part of the Area Studies in Flux conference, convened by the IAS and SSEES in collaboration with PKU, Beijing, and is designed to go beyond Euro/US-centrism to explore ‘area’ from diverse vantage points and emplaced disciplinary traditions.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Institute of Advanced Studies

Location

IAS Common Ground
Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

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