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*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
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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_
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