Professor Carolyn Pedwell will present her research in the autumn.
Carolyn Pedwell is Professor in Digital Media and Head of Media and Film in the School of Arts, University of Lancaster. She is a cultural and media theorist with an international reputation for her work on affect and artificial intelligence; digital media and culture; habits and social change; the politics of empathy; and feminist, queer, critical race and decolonial studies.
Carolyn is the author of three monographs: Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation (McGill-Queens UP, 2021); Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (Palgrave, 2014); and Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison (Routledge, 2010). She is also the co-editor (with Gregory J. Seigworth) of The Affect Theory Reader 2: Worldings, Tensions, Futures (Duke UP, 2023). Carolyn’s monograph in progress is Speculative Machines and Us: Intuition, AI, and the Making of Computational Cultures.
Professor of Social and Political Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor Pykett explores governance, emotion, and public policy through social and political geography, with a focus on neuroscience, urban wellbeing, and sociodigital futures.
