Dear All,

 

Please find attached a CfP for a conference on the transdisciplinary legacy of Zygmunt Bauman’s work to be held at the University of Leeds in April 2019. The deadline for submission of a 250 word abstract is the 5^th September.

 

Given the presence of Bauman’s writings within Surveillance Studies it would be fantastic to get a panel session or round table together exploring his legacy and impact on the field. If anybody is interested in doing so please get in touch! You can contact me at [log in to unmask]

 

Some of the suggested areas to address include:

 

• Memories of Democracy/ Memories of Socialism: articulations of the public sphere, citizenship, responsibility and obligation
• International Perspectives on Bauman’s work from Latin America, Eastern Europe, Mediterranean Europe
• Cultural Theory and analysis in the wake of Bauman’s sociological imagination: language, concepts, thought-models, narratives of social change,
• What is a public intellectual? Relations between academic practice, political activism and public thinker
• The Other, the Stranger, the Exile, the Refugee, the Vagabond, the Tourist, and Wasted Life
• Insecurity, Precarity and Uncertainty: social, cultural, subjective dimensions
• Bauman and contemporary political activism; international context
• Critical Engagements: Gender, Sexuality, and the Postcolonial in liquid modernity
• Capitalism, consumerism, financialization: liquid modernity’s challenge to economics
• Consequences of interregnum: ‘decline of the West’, ‘end of world’ panic and the current emergence of ‘retrotopias’ versus looking forward to ‘cosmpolitically integrated humanity’

 

All the best,

 

Rob Thornton-Lee

PhD Student

Sociology and Social Policy

University of Leeds

Twitter: @robthorntonlee