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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** * Final registration deadline: 28 May 2009 * http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/haunted/index.html* ***Haunted futurities symposium**** 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. Further details, programme and registration are available here 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_ ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * ***************************************************************