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>> From: "Mookherjee, Nayanika" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 31 July 2007 10:41:30 BDT
>> To: "Mookherjee, Nayanika" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Conference Information: Melancholic States - 27-29
>> September 2007
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Apologies for this round robin email.
>>
>> This is to bring to your attention this conference information –
>> Melancholic States http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/
>> melancholicstates/registration.htm – with acclaimed speakers,
>> artists, film makers and activists from across the world - to be
>> held in Lancaster University from 27-29 September.
>> Some of us from Sociology and Women Studies are organising it and
>> many of you might find it pertinent or might know someone who
>> would find this conference relevant. A look at the plenary
>> speakers would show that the conference is interdisciplinary and
>> anthropological perspectives would be valuable and pertinent.
>>
>> Registration is now underway for the Melancholic States conference
>> - Early bird registration ends August 31st - click on link to
>> register now and for further detailshttp://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/
>> events/melancholicstates/registration.htm
>>
>> MELANCHOLIC STATES
>> Institute for Women’s Studies, Lancaster University
>> 27-29 September 2007
>> This conference will explore the ways in which the idea of
>> ‘melancholic states’ speaks to the complexity of the present.
>> With a provenance in psychoanalysis, the concept of melancholia
>> has proliferated across numerous fields. Sometimes it refers to a
>> state of mind or an affective state: elsewhere it is used to speak
>> of racialised, gendered or queer subjectivities. At other times it
>> becomes a tool to analyse political states or to convene
>> constituencies of solidarity. Melancholia also founds collective
>> memory and associated artefactual practices and describes the
>> conditions of professional practice organised around a public
>> service ethic. Positioned as a condition to be claimed,
>> transcended, or negotiated, ‘melancholic states’ speaks to the
>> contemporary zeitgeist: the post/neo-colonial era.
>> This international conference will bring together voices from
>> women’s studies, postcolonial and critical race studies, critical
>> psychology, politics, international relations, sociology,
>> anthropology, geography, art and design and queer studies to
>> address our melancholic states.
>> Confirmed plenary speakers include:
>> M. Jacqui Alexander (University of Toronto)
>> Gaye Chan (University of Hawai’i)
>> Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University)
>> David Eng (Rutgers University)
>> Ayse Gul Altinay (Sabinci University, Istanbul)
>> Yehudit Keshet (activist and writer, Jerusalem)
>> Ranjana Khanna (Duke University)
>> Roz Mortimer (filmmaker, London)
>> Kavita Panjabi (Jadavpur University, Calcutta)
>> Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai’i)
>> Cindy Weber (Lancaster University)
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>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>>
>>
>> Nayanika
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>> Nayanika Mookherjee,
>>
>> Department of Sociology
>>
>> Lancaster University
>>
>> Lancaster LA14YD. UK
>>
>> tel: (44) 01524 592805
>>
>> fax: (44) 01524 594256
>>
>> email: [log in to unmask]
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>> http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/staff/mookherjee/mookherjee.htm
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