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The Journal of International Political Anthropology invites your attendance for the 3rd annual workshop on ‘Beauty’. This workshop also launches the first IPA Special Edition Book titled ‘Reclaiming Beauty’. Places are limited for this workshop; participants are invited to submit proposals for presentation though not obligatory. ** No registration fee **
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If modernity is the great age of critique, how are we to understand critique as a cultural phenomenon? While critique is a perennial activity for many intellectuals and academics, what if it were constitutive of modern society more generally? Theoreticisations of critique abound in increasingly specialised debates, but how often do we problematise critique, by posing the question of critique as a phenomenon worth studying in itself?
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We ask for papers that elaborate how crisis politics can be linked to liminal situations at the societal level, and discuss how two types of crisis leadership, linked to the charismatic figure of the statesman and tricksters, can emerge out of liminal moments.
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Workshop on Reclaiming Beauty 25 May 2011 University of Cambridge This workshop will be concerned with the contemporary significance and relevance of Beauty. The Renaissance attempted to return to the ancient concern with beauty, central for classical Greek and Roman culture and philosophy, taking over and imitating its norms in architecture, in philosophy, and the …
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