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[ecrea] Memory, Technicity and Time: Symposium April 18th

Thu Mar 15 08:26:10 GMT 2007


>Memory, Technicity and Time
>
>A Symposium at the University of East London
>
>
>Docklands Campus Room EB.3.16
>
>
>
>April 18th 2007
>  10:00-16:00
>
>
>All are welcome and attendance is free, but to 
>give us an idea of numbers, it would be helpful 
>if anyone planning to attend could email the organiser.
>
>For more information or to notify of your 
>intention to attend, contact Jeremy Gilbert: 
><mailto:(j.gilbert /at/ uel.ac.uk)>(j.gilbert /at/ uel.ac.uk)
>
>Programme
>
>
>10:00-11:45
>Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life: A 
>discussion of Jan Campbell's major new work
>
>
>Jan Campbell
>'Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life'
>
>
>Jan Campbell is Senior Lecturer in English at 
>the University of Birmingham, the author of 
>Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life, Arguing 
>With The Phallus: Feminist, Queer and Postcolonial Theory, Film and
>Cinema Spectatorship: Mimesis and Melodrama. She 
>is also an analytical psychotherapist in
>private practice.
>
>
>Lisa Blackman
>'The Rhythms of Life: A Response to Jan Campbell's 'The Time of Life'
>
>
>Lisa Blackman is a Senior Lecturer in the 
>Department of Media and Communications, 
>Goldsmiths College, UK. She works at the 
>intersection of critical psychology and cultural 
>theory, and particularly on the relationships 
>between the body, affect and the psychological. 
>She has published two books, L. Blackman and V. 
>Walkerdine (2001) Mass Hysteria: Critical 
>Psychology and Media Studies. Palgrave and L. 
>Blackman (2001) Hearing Voices: Embodiment and 
>Experience. Free Association Books. She is 
>currently completing  two monographs. The first 
>is under consideration by Duke University Press, 
>L. Blackman (forthcoming), Feeling FINE: Affect, 
>Relationality and the 'Problem of Personality'. 
>The second is a general introduction to body 
>theory: L. Blackman (2008) The Body: Key Concepts. London: Berg
>
>
>  11:45-12:00 coffee
>
>
>12:00-13:30
>
>
>Writing Memory
>
>
>Susannah Radstone
>'Memory's afterlife and reparative fictions'
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>
>
>
>Susannah Radstone is Reader in Cultural Theory 
>in  SSMaCS at UEL. recent publications include 
>(ed) Memory and Methodology (Berg, 2000); ed 
>with Katharine Hodgkin Memory Cultures; ed with 
>Katharine Hodgkin The Politics of Memory (both 
>Transaction Publishers, 2005). She is now 
>completing On Memory and Confession: The Sexual 
>Politics of Time,  (Routledge, forthcoming, 
>2007)  co-editing (with Bill Schwarz) Mapping 
>Memory (Fordham University Press). Future 
>publications will also include a  collection 
>of  her essays on trauma theory and related issues.
>
>
>Rebecca Bramall
>  'Advancing in the direction of the immemorial: writing, ethics, and the
>forgotten'
>
>
>Rebecca Bramall is concluding her doctoral research at the University of East
>London. Focusing on the concept of cultural amnesia, her thesis explores the
>legacies of Critical Theory in contemporary discourses of remembering and
>forgetting.
>
>
>
>
>13:30-14:30 lunch
>
>
>
>
>14:30  16:00
>  The Technicity  of Memory
>
>Gary Hall
>'The Politics of Memory and the Archive'
>
>
>
>
>Gary Hall teaches Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University. His
>books include Culture in Bits: The Monstrous Future of Theory (Continuum,
>2002), New Cultural Studies (Edinburgh University Press, 2006, with Clare
>Birchall) and Digitize This! (University of Minnesota Press,
>forthcoming). He is founding co-editor of the journal Culture Machine
>(<http://www.culturemachine.net/>www.culturemachine.net), 
>and Director of the Cultural Studies open
>access archive CSeARCH 
>(<http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch>www.culturemachine.net/csearch).
>
>
>Ben Roberts
>'Media Technics, Phenomenology and Memory in Stiegler and Hansen'
>
>
>Ben Roberts is lecturer in Media Studies at the 
>Univeristy of Bradford. His research currently 
>is focused in two broad areas: (i) the cultural 
>theory of technology; (ii) money and 
>culture.  He is currently developing two book 
>projects. The first is an introduction to the 
>work of Bernard Stiegler The second book takes a 
>broader approach to the question of technology 
>in relation to cultural theory and will include 
>chapters on Heidegger, Derrida, Husserl and Virilio as well as Stiegler.
>
>
>The symposium will be followed be a seminar 
>organised by the school's psychosocial studies 
>group in collaboration with the Tavistock: 
>Nicola Diamond: 'Reflections on Skin 
>Inscription: Between the Analytic Couch and 
>Every Day Life' in Room  EB 104, 16:00.
>
>Travel: Cyprus DLR station is literally at the 
>campus. See here for travel and access information:
><http://www.uel.ac.uk/about_uel/why_uel/travelwise.htm>http://www.uel.ac.uk/about_uel/why_uel/travelwise.htm
>http://www.uel.ac.uk/about_uel/why_uel/docklands.htm
>
>

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