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> H-ASIA
> May 13, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Bangkok symposium on Haunting and Globalization:
> Symptoms of the Present, Chulalongkorn University, July 25, 2011
>
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> From: arnika fuhrmann <fuhrmann.arnika@googlemail.com>
>
> Haunting and Globalization: Symptoms of the Present
>
> A symposium at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
>
> July 25, 2011
>
>
> Keynote speaker: Esther Cheung (University of Hong Kong)
>
> This symposium seeks to address political, aesthetic, and affective
> phenomena of the global present through a focus on the notion of haunting,
> critically deployed. Although globalization is a popular research topic,
> the
> ways in which shifting properties of personhood, institutions, temporal
> frames, and materialities that emerge in contexts of globalization affect
> the states of mind of people living in the present deserve additional
> attention. The symposium uses the notion of haunting to think about how
> something acquires a (memorable) shape, however tentative, and how various
> transformations and states of mind of the globalized present may be
> conceptualized.
>
>
> We invite 3–4 additional contributions that critically deploy notions of
> haunting, or temporal difference. These may or may not complement three
> existing papers on the transnational cinemas of Thailand and Hong Kong and
> one ethnographically based paper on masculinity and spectral parenthood in
> Thailand. The contributions might address new forms of political violence
> and solidarity; affective, textual, and material aspects of urban
> spatiality
> and migration; ways in which new media extend or constrain forms of
> relating; formations of new artistic and cinematic genres; manifestations
> of
> risk societies; the notion of liquid time; methods of localization; or any
> other phenomenon of the global present. We welcome contributions from a
> variety of disciplines and approaches in the humanities and social
> sciences.
>
> Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words to fuhrmann@hku.hk by
> June 1, 2011.
>
>
> Arnika
>
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> Arnika Fuhrmann
> Research Scholar
> Society of Scholars in the Humanities
> Department of Comparative Literature
> Room 215a, Main Building
> University of Hong Kong
> Pok Fu Lam Road
> Hong Kong
> +852 3563 5402
> fuhrmann@hku.hk
> fuhrmann.arnika@googlemail.com
> www.asianfilmfestivalberlin.de
>
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