Organizer: Dilip Gaonkar.
Presenter: Sianne Ngai.
Discussants: Mark Greif, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, and Leigh Claire LaBerge.
The Center for Transcultural Studies is a leading research institution that creates new forms of cultural understanding for a rapidly internationalizing world. Its major objectives are:
Launched in 2017, the Democratic Agendas Network (DAN) is a framework for integrating projects and dialogues related to the career of democracy and its futures.
The Questioning the Present project was launched in 2020 as a response to the contemporary political, economic, and social conditions in light of the COVID-19 crisis.
Modernity, Media, and Aesthetics is a new project that is committed to assembling scholars to explore the topic of modernity, media, and aesthetics in the context of a vast and uneven field of aesthetic forms circulating in global networks.
The Center for Transcultural Studies is a leading research institution that creates new forms of cultural understanding for a rapidly internationalizing world.