LUCAS “Role of Experience” reading group with Nidesh Lawtoo
- Date
- Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Time
- Address
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 2.27
Come join the next LUCAS “Role of Experience” reading group session! Nidesh Lawtoo will discuss mimetic and chameleonic theories developed in his ERC Homo Mimeticus project, with drinks generously offered afterwards by courtesy of his project. All interested welcome!
Texts for reading
Nidesh Lawtoo, “Introduction: Mimetic Studies”, Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2: The Affective Hypothesis (2023) 1–34. (please contact Sophie van Romburgh to get this reading)
Nidesh Lawtoo, “The Human Chameleon”, ch. 6 of Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation (2022) 191–224.
Recommended: Woody Allen’s Zelig (1983).
Contact and more information on "Role of Experience"
Contact: Sophie van Romburgh
Find out more about Nidesh Lawtoo or Homo Mimeticus.
More information on the "Role of Experience" research theme can be found on the website of the Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration (PARC).
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