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 ************************************************** 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