Please, could you circulate this among PG students?
Thanks a lot!
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Asunto: Second CFP Subversive Histories for Public Cultures, Brighton and
Sussex postgraduate conference, University of Brighton, 22nd June 2016
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*8th annual Brighton-Sussex postgraduate conference, 10am - 4pm, 22nd June
2015. University of Brighton, Grand Parade Campus, M2*
*Subversive Histories for Public Cultures*
*The politics of life history research*
The 8th annual Brighton-Sussex postgraduate conference Co-organised by the
Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories (CRMNH, University
of Brighton) and the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research
(CLHLWR, University of Sussex)
*Second Conference Call For Papers*
*Extended Deadline Friday 20th May 2016*
The discipline of life history research has long had a political engagement
with the tensions between marginalised and dominant voices in the making of
public cultures. This year’s postgraduate conference 'Subversive Histories
for Public Cultures' re-visits the politics surrounding the practice of
life history research. We seek to critically question acts of telling and
hearing, and to consider how subversive narratives of the past perform and
circulate in public cultures. In this way, the conference will conceptually
explore how life history research methods contribute to the interruption
and/or maintenance of public cultures, as well as the methods, approaches,
and ethical considerations that this entails.
We invite postgraduate or early career researchers to present at this
conference their contributions to one or more questions outlined above.
This is a free event, refreshments and lunch provided by CRMNH and CLHLWR.
Please send a 300-word abstract, a brief biography (including your name,
degree and research interests) and your contact details to
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*Keynote Speaker: **Dr Carrie Hamilton (University of Roehampton) *
*Animal Stories and Public Cultures*
A significant development in European public cultures in the late twentieth
and early twenty-first centuries has been the increased political and civic
engagement with the lives and fate of animals. At local, national and
transnational level, voluntary, charitable, and direct action groups have
challenged liberal democratic definitions of rights and citizenship,
demanding that state obligations to protect, as well as public duties of
solidarity, be extended to include other-than-human animals. In this
process, the tales of those people who defend and 'speak for' animals
interrupts anthropocentric understandings of historical subjectivity.
This lecture will highlight these developments and disruptions with
reference to life stories of animal welfare and animal rights activists
from the UK and Spain. I explore how we might better learn to listen to,
interpret and represent animal stories - both in the sense of human
witnessing to animal lives, and of the physical presence of animal bodies
in oral history interviews. This small archive of activist animal tales
marks an important intervention in contemporary theorisations of
human-animal relations and 'posthumanism', and presents significant
challenges to the writing of history.
*Carrie Hamilton is Reader in History at the University or Roehampton,
London. She has written two books and numerous articles on oral history,
testimony, gender, sexuality and political activism in Spain and Cuba. She
is currently working on two research projects: a brief history of animal
welfare activism in Spain following the death of Franco; and a study of the
feminist politics of veganism.*
For further information, please visit:
*http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/crmnh
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Dr Sam Carroll
Research Centre Administrator
Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories
Faculty of Arts
10-11 Pavilion Parade
University of Brighton
Brighton
BN2 1RA
United Kingdom
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