mediations Lecture Series: Emma Dowling

2/7/2012 11:40:45 AM

Dr. Emma Dowling will visit FIMS and participate in scheduled events on February 14 and 15. Please join us.

The Subcommittee for Intellectual Life at FIMS - mediations Lecture Series presents:
Dr. Emma Dowling, Queen Mary, University of London

Public Lecture:
"Registers of the labouring body: what does affect do for us?"
Tuesday Feb 14
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
NCB 117

Grad Seminar:
"Writing from experience -- method, (re)presentation, politics."
Wednesday Feb 15
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
UC 224A (Conference Room next to Conron Hall)
Space in the seminar is limited, please register at: emmadowlingatwestern@gmail.com

Emma Dowling has devoted much attention in recent years to thinking and writing about affective labour with a particular emphasis on waitressing and the service industry; her work on affect also deals with immaterial and reproductive labour in its  intersections with gender, and engages the problematic of affect and the body in politics, in organising and in knowledge production.  Her publications on the topic include 'Producing the Dining Experience -- Measure, Subjectivity and the Affective Worker' (Ephemera 7.1, a special issue on 'Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored' which she co-edited) and 'The Waitress -- On Affect, Method and (Re) presentation', in Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies (forthcoming, 2012). She also researches the relationship between social and political conflict and governance processes/institutions, and she studies ethics under the rubric of  forms of valorisation and measure. To this end, one of her current projects looks at the political economy of the UK Government's austerity measures in relation to the concept of 'social value' and the widely contested notion of a 'Big Society'. Emma Dowling is an editor of the research thread Mobilisations, Interventions, Cultural Policy for the journal Lateral. She is Lecturer in Ethics, Governance and Accountability at Queen Mary, University of London and a founding member of the NGO Clinic.

Presented with support from Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research, the Rogers Chair and the FIMS Faculty Scholar.