Lecture „Affect centre: understanding US (and other) foreign policy”

On Thursday 28 May, Prof. Kennan Ferguson from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee will visit the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin to deliver a lecture entitled „Affect centre: understanding US (and other) foreign policy”. The event, part of the „Discourses on the World” series, is organised by the Centre for Diplomacy Studies at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.

Professor Kennan Ferguson lectures in political theory at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of, among other works, the book „Cookbook Politics” (University of Pennsylvania). His earlier publications include „All in the Family: Community and Incommensurability” (Duke) and „The Politics of Judgment” (Lexington), as well as the co-edited volumes „After Capitalism” (Rutgers) with Patrice Petro and the forthcoming book "The Big No” (Minnesota).

Ferguson is currently co-editor of the journal „Theory & Event” (2015–2020) and the book series „Modernity and Political Thought”, and previously co-edited the eight-volume „Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought”. Since 2016, he has served on the Faculty Committee of the University of Wisconsin Press. From 2015 to 2017, he was director of the Centre for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is currently on a Fulbright scholarship at Charles University in Prague.

We warmly invite everyone interested to Room C-618 on 28 May at 11:00!