AestheticsWorkGroup

An interdisciplinary group of professors & students who meet to discuss theoretical works about and in the arts. Led by Jonathan A. Neufeld. @jneuf

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Help AWG support its students by contributing to programming & student travel with a tax deductible donation: https://t.co/uz9iQ8NvFV

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Betting on March Madness? Remember: 10% of any money you win betting for, or 20% of what you win betting against, the College of Charleston on Thursday should be donated to the Aesthetics WorkGroup.

I don't make the rules. https://t.co/yKL00pA21p

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March 20. Make your Monday a little brighter by talking about philosophy and Taylor Swift with @BrandonPolite2

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AWG's first meeting for 2023 is Friday, February 10. What better place to talk about the aesthetics of cafes, bars and pubs than Charleston!

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AWG's first meeting for 2023 is Friday, February 10. What better place to talk about the aesthetics of cafes, bars and pubs than Charleston!

@HSSatCofC @SOTAcofc

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ICYMI, look at the fantastic conference we hosted with the @ASA_aesthetics here in Charleston!

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Southern Aesthetics Workshop: Fantastic conference sponsored by @AWGCofC @HSSatCofC @SOTAcofc @CofCPhil @EnglishCofC and more. Thanks!! @GibbsKnotts @CofCHsu

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AWG meeting 10/6 4:15 14 Glebe! We're preparing for SAW4 @cofc by discussing two papers: on fat vanity projects as models for reimagining beauty, & on watching horror movies as a mindfulness technique (by @NeuroYogacara). @sotacofc @hssatcofc @cofchsu @gibbsknotts @cofcphil

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Fantastic @ASA_aesthetics event being held at @cofc this fall: 4th annual Southern Aesthetics Workshop (SAW 4!) It's a pre-read aesthetics workshop. CFP below. @HSSatCofC @SOTAcofc @CofCPhil

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@jneuf @john_dyck @adornoyoudidnt @Dave_Parisi @april_bisner Really looking forward to building next year's lineup, now that (hopefully) we are back to a more normal schedule. CofC and AWG will be hosting the fourth annual Southern Aesthetics Workshop (SAW IV!!) October 14-16. Watch for the CFP soon...

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@jneuf @shmepshmein It's true.

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Congrats Patrick Wohlscheid @adornoyoudidnt who won a South Carolina Humanities scholarship. He is a 3rd-year Philosophy & English major interested in 19th century philosophy, history, & literature & has a forthcoming publication in Emerson Society Papers.

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AWG Meeting Fri 2/26 4:15: “’Fumbling mutely with their rude hands’ — Performing Deaf Identity in Michael Arden’s 2015 Spring Awakening,” Cara Tovey (German, CofC). See Fb page for details. Contact @jneuf for paper and Zoom link--everybody welcome. https://t.co/y9XaKcVGbj

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AWG Meeting Fri 2/26 4:15: “’Fumbling mutely with their rude hands’ — Performing Deaf Identity in Michael Arden’s 2015 Spring Awakening,” Cara Tovey (German, CofC). See Fb page for details. Contact @jneuf for paper and Zoom link--everybody welcome. https://t.co/y9XaKcVGbj

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AWG Vampire-Thursday! Today's meeting is led by Irina Erman (@CofC Russian Studies): “Sympathetic Vampires and Zombies with Brains: The Modern Monster as a Master of Self-Control.”

Details: https://t.co/qeX2oAlWKN

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AWG Zoom meeting this FRIDAY: Molly Hampton (Women's & Gender Studies major) will be discussing the politics of graffiti in women's bathroom stalls. What can latrinalia tell us about public reason? A lot, it turns out!

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AWG upcoming Spring Schedule (4/4):

April 22: Irina Erman (Russian, CofC): “Sympathetic Vampires and Zombies with Brains: The Modern Monster as a Master of Self-Control”

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AWG upcoming Spring Schedule (1/4):

March 5: Tanner Crunelle (WGS/English student) will present a set of “aphoristic prose poems” tentatively called "Campus Fragments," along with, "A History of Whiteness in College of Charleston's Formal Desegregation."

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AWG upcoming Spring Schedule (3/4):

April 9: Julia McReynolds-Pérez (Sociology, CofC): “What’s So Funny About a Fetus? Weaponizing Humor in Argentina’s Abortion Rights Movement”