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---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009 13:59 -0700 From: Adi Kuntsman <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Haunted futurities symposium, Manchester: registration now open Haunted futurities 9:30 am ? 5pm, 4 June 2009 Humanities Building, Room G7, The University of Manchester Keynote speaker: Avery Gordon, the author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination In the recent years haunting has surfaced as a way of exploring the ways in which the past and in particular, past events of extreme violence, such as colonialism, slavery or genocide, haunt contemporary socialiaties. But instead of focusing solely on the past, this symposium opens up the notion of haunting to questions about ghosts of the future, about haunted futurities: be it about ways in which the past casts a shadow over (im)possible futures; or about horrors that are imagined as 'inevitable'; or about our hopes and dreams for difference, for change. Inspired by Avery Gordon's famous Ghostly Matters (1997), this symposium brings together scholars working in the arts, social sciences and humanities, in order to open up a dialogue between different disciplines and theoretical perspectives. In particular, the symposium will focus on intersections between art and social research, between people and 'things', and between the social and the psychic. Registration is now open, please visit our website for further details http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/haunted/index.html -- Dr. Adi Kuntsman Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures The University of Manchester Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- ---------------------- A A Piccini Lecturer in Screen Studies Drama: Theatre, Film, Television School of Arts University of Bristol Cantocks Close, Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1UP E: [log in to unmask] Skype: aapiccini W: www.bris.ac.uk/drama/staff_research/angela_piccini/ ************************************************************************ From Jan-Aug 2009 I am a Visiting Scholar in the Centre for Cinema Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. -------------------------- contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events in contemporary and historical archaeology, and for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. ------- For email subscription options see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html ------- Visit the CHAT website for more information and for future meeting dates: http://www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk --------------------------