[Air-L] Haunted futurities symposium, early bird registration by 5 May

[Adi Kuntsman]

Dear AoiR members,
The event below maybe of interest to many of you, in particular, two papers dealing with cyberspace (by Debra Ferreday and yours truly). Check the link for further details and please circulate widely
Adi Kuntsman

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Registration is now open, please visit our website for further details http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/haunted/index.html
To enjoy the discounted 'early bird' registration, please register
by 5 May 2009

***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