'Feeling for the Sense': Tact & the Art of Interpretation

The event will take place in the IAS Common Ground (G11, ground floor, South Wing), UCL. Please see UCL maps for directions: https://maps.ucl.ac.uk. Please note that this event is in-person only.

The talk is a collaboration between UCL's Comparative Literature programmes (SELCS-CMII) and the World Literature and Cultural Studies Research Cluster (SELCS-CMII). We are grateful to the IAS (Institute of Advanced Studies) for hosting us.

About the speaker: Katja Haustein is honorary lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Kent. She was a British Academy Research Fellow at Cambridge, a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Katja's most recent book is Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters (CUP 2023). She is currently working on a short book on Touch, Tact & Technology (under contract with CUP).