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Credit: Sophie van Romburgh

Reading Group - mimetic and chameleonic theories with Nidesh Lawtoo

Tu 21 May 2024 15:15 – 17:00, Meeting Reading Group - Cleveringaplaats 1, Lipsius 2.27, Leiden University

You are warmly invited to join the next LUCAS 'Role of Experience' reading group session! Nidesh Lawtoo will discuss mimetic and chameleonic theories developed in his ERC Homo Mimeticus project, with drinks generously offered afterwards by courtesy of his project.

Texts for reading:

  • Nidesh Lawtoo, “Introduction: Mimetic Studies”, Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2: The Affective Hypothesis (2023) 1–34. [contact Sophie]
  • Nidesh Lawtoo, “On Animal and Human Mimicry”, ch. 5 of Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation (2022) 157–190. https://doi.org/10.1353/book.103915

In case you want to join, please send a message to Sophie van Romburgh via s.g.van.romburgh@hum.leidenuniv.nl

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