Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Irina Aristarkhova

3pm, Tuesday

21st January 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Please register at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Irina Aristarkhova is an Associate Professor of Art & Design, HIstory of Art, and Women’s Studies and an affiliate faculty at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to Michigan, Aristarkhova taught at Penn State University; at the National University of Singapore and Laselle College of the Arts. Her book Hospitality of the matrix: Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture (Columbia University Press, 2012) poses the old question “Where do we come from?” through the most recent perspectives in the study of generation. Aristarkhova’s current writing project engages aesthetics of hospitality in contemporary art, focusing on the works of Lee Mingwei, Ana Privacki, Kathy High, Faith Wilding, and Mithu Sen. Her creative blog www.russianfeminist.com explores issues of Soviet and Post-Soviet cultutre and sexuality. Aristarkhova’s work has been translated into Romanian, German,Chinese,Greek,Slovenian,Spanish and Portuguese.