Presentation by William T.S. Mazzarella, Thursday, May 9, 5:30 PM

We are delighted to invite you to a joint seminar organized by the Department of Mobility and Migration and Czech Association for Social Anthropology. Our guest speaker, William T.S. Mazzarella, Neukom Family Professor of Anthropology and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, will discuss 'Advertising as Integral Magic: An Afterlife'.

Date: 9 May 2024

Time: 5:30-7:00

Location: Kampus Hybernská, Seminar room B1, Hybernská 998/4, Praha 1

William T.S. Mazzarella writes and teaches on the political anthropology of mass publicity, critical theory, affect and aesthetics, psychoanalysis, ritual and theopolitics, and the occult shadow of the modern. His books include Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India (Duke, 2003), Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity (Duke, 2013), The Mana of Mass Society (Chicago, 2017), and, with Eric Santner and Aaron Schuster, Sovereignty, Inc: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment (Chicago, 2020). He is also the co-editor, with Raminder Kaur, of Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction (Indiana, 2009), and the editor of K D Katrak: Collected Poems (Poetrywala, 2016). His article 'The Anthropology of Populism: Beyond the Liberal Settlement' appears in the 2019 issue of Annual Review of Anthropology.

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Funded by the European Union (ERC, MEMPOP, 101076092).