Affective Rebellions of the Imaginary

Mara Lee

Mara Lee
Affective Rebellions of the Imaginary. (A performance lecture on the raw materials of fantasy, desire and love)

Plenary session by Mara Lee as a part of the PARSE 5th biennial research conference, Powers of Love: Enchantment to Disaffection, The Artistic Faculty, University of Gothenburg, Wed 15–Fri 17 Nov. 2023

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Wed 15–Fri 17 Nov 2023

Powers of Love: Enchantment to Disaffection

João Pedro AmorimKim AnnoTawanda AppiahJuan AriasMaria BaniaHenric BeneschRondel BenjaminMelina BigaleJason E. BowmanChris BroodrykAnders CarlssonErin CoryTom CubbinChaya CzernowinJason DerouinKris DittelKarmenlara ElyLaleh ForoughanfarLayla GatensElizabeth GrahamHelga Lára HalldórsdóttirSusannah HaslamJessica HemmingsClareese HillProf. Hiroshi IshiguroIngela JohanssonZara JuliusMara KaragianniVictoria KarlssonCathryn KlastoYolo KobaPauli KortteinenOnkar Kularmatt lambertKaisa LassinaroKarin Bähler LavérMaddie LeachMara LeeNobunye LevinJohanne LøgstrupOle Lützow-HolmNina MangalanayagamConor McLaughlinEkua McMorrisJyoti MistrySabine Dahl NielsenJoey OrrNiclas ÖstlindJamie J. PhilbertMorten PoulsenPille Pruulmann-VengerfeldtRam Krishna RanjanEmelie RöndahlAssunta RuoccoIda von SchmalenseeJulia SchusterPalesa Nomanzi ShongweWinnie SoonWinnie SzeMark TatlowChristina TenteNeue VocalsolistenLitó WalkeyMichaela Django WalshMick WilsonDawn WoolleyJohn-Paul ZaccariniIngeborg ZackariassenApex Zero

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Mara Lee

Mara Lee is a Swedish poet, novelist, translator and professor of art history and theory at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, and guest professor at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. 

She is the author of several novels and volumes of poetry, including the internationally recognized Ladies from 2007 and award-winning Love and Hate from 2018. Her most recent publication, Loving Others, Othering Love, is a multi-modal lyric essay that blends the forms of essay, poetry, myth, and fiction in an examination of the construction of the stranger and the Other, through emotions. Lee has also introduced and translated the Canadian poet Anne Carson into Swedish. Her research is situated in the intersection of creative writing, literary history (20th century) and feminist and queer of color theory. Other research interests include psychoanalysis, desire and affect theory. She earned her Ph.D in literary composition, Gothenburg University, and she holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in comparative literature from Stockholm University. She has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, Department of rhetoric. Her articles appear in: Lambda Nordica; Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap; European Journal of Women’s studies; Tidskrift för genusvetenskap, amongst others.

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