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Keynote Address

Sarah Ahmed

Keynote Address: Sarah Ahmed


Sarah Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is concerned with how bodies and worlds take shape; and how power is secured and challenged in everyday life worlds, as well as institutional cultures. Publications include: Difference that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1998); Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (2000); The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004, 2014), Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006); The Promise of Happiness (2010); On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012) and Willful Subjects (2014). She is currently finishing a book, Living a Feminist Life (some of this material is being worked through on her blog, feministkilljoys.com) and has begun a new research project on “the uses of use.”