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Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice
Book launch and pop-up exhibition on 19 March 2024
Editors:
Christine Schwöbel-Patel (CRASSH visiting fellow, University of Warwick)
Robert Knox (University of Liverpool)
Speakers:
Alex Batesmith (University of Leeds)
Terry Duffy (Artist)
Kate Evans (Artist)
Jo Frank (Artist)
Tor Krever (University of Cambridge)
Kate Miles (University of Cambridge)
Anne Neylon (University of Liverpool)
Deger Ozkaramanli (Delft University of Technology)
Surabhi Ranganathan (University of Cambridge)
Gerry Simpson (London School of Economics)
Illan Wall (University of Galway)
Summary:
How are stories of justice told and visualised? In what ways do stereotypes of victims entrench biases of race, class, and gender? What presumptions do we have about violence and forms of justice?
In this book launch and exhibition event, these questions will be critically explored as questions relating to the political relationship between aesthetics and international justice. Through a variety of media, from poetry to comics, international justice’s dominant aesthetics will be explored, as well as resistance to them in the form of counter-aesthetics.
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