{"id":1680,"date":"2016-01-29T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:13:34","slug":"faculty-works-in-progress-series-stacy-douglas-one-day-the-aesthetics-of-liberalism-in-steve-mcqueens-twelve-years-a-slave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/2016\/faculty-works-in-progress-series-stacy-douglas-one-day-the-aesthetics-of-liberalism-in-steve-mcqueens-twelve-years-a-slave\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Works-in-Progress Series, Stacy Douglas &#8220;One Day: The Aesthetics of Liberalism in Steve McQueen&#8217;s &#8216;Twelve Years A Slave'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"143\" height=\"143\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/Stacy_Douglas-143x143.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy_Douglas-143x143\" class=\"wp-image-1694\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Global and International Studies Program would like to announce our sixth Works-in-Progress speaker, Dr. Stacy Douglas, whose paper &#8220;One Day: The Aesthetics of Liberalism in Steve McQueen&#8217;s &#8216;Twelve Years A Slave'&#8221;&nbsp;will be presented on&nbsp;<strong>Friday, February 5th at 12pm in Room 2420 R River Building<\/strong>. &nbsp;The discussant for this paper will be&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Kristin Bright<\/strong>&nbsp;(Anthropology, Carleton University).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All papers will be pre-circulated two weeks in advance of each paper presentation. Please register in advance using the form below in order to receive copies of discussion papers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve McQueen\u2019s 2013 film Twelve Years a Slave tells the true tale of Solomon Northup, a free&nbsp;black man who wakes one day in 1841 to find he has been kidnapped and sold into slavery&nbsp;in the southern United States. He spends the next twelve years under unimaginably violent&nbsp;conditions, attempting to escape and return home. The narrative device of awaking in a&nbsp;seemingly alternate legal universe is used widely in film and literature. Another example of&nbsp;suddenly and inexplicably finding oneself in unfamiliar surroundings is borne out in Franz&nbsp;Kafka\u2019s work The Trial. There, Josef K. awakes on the morning of his 30th birthday to find&nbsp;that he has been accused of a crime, the details of which he is never told. Although the&nbsp;stories of Solomon Northup and Josef K. differ in several important ways, they share an&nbsp;experience of having their everyday belief in the stability of law interrupted by a single&nbsp;momentous day. This paper explores this device and its resonances with a more general&nbsp;liberal story about the possibility of encountering law\u2019s violence as a distinct moment, rather&nbsp;than as everyday experience.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global and International Studies Program would like to announce our sixth Works-in-Progress speaker, Dr. Stacy Douglas, whose paper &#8220;One Day: The Aesthetics of Liberalism in Steve McQueen&#8217;s &#8216;Twelve Years A Slave&#8217;&#8221;&nbsp;will be presented on&nbsp;Friday, February 5th at 12pm in Room 2420 R River Building. &nbsp;The discussant for this paper will be&nbsp;Dr. Kristin Bright&nbsp;(Anthropology, Carleton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}