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This is to bring to your attention this conference information -
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)
Melancholic States - with acclaimed speakers, artists, film makers and activists
from
across the world - to be held in Lancaster University from 27-29
September
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/melancholicstates/registration.htm
Registration is now underway for the Melancholic States conference -
Early bird registration ends August 31st - click on link to register now
and for further details
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/melancholicstates/registration.htm
Best wishes,
Nayanika Mookherjee,
Department of Sociology
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA14YD. UK
tel: (44) 01524 592805
fax: (44) 01524 594256
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/staff/mookherjee/mookherjee.htm
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