[Commlist] CMNH Symposium. Postindustrial imaginaries: beyond progress, memory and loss

Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories Annual Symposium

*Postindustrial imaginaries: beyond progress, memory and loss*

9:00-5:30, Wednesday 27 March 2019, Room 309, Edward Street, University 
of Brighton.

The postindustrial is tethered to powerful cultural imaginaries. From 
“smokestack nostalgia” and its elegies to Fordist labour and the 
certainties of modernity, to evocations of ruined landscapes and the 
toxic wastes of endtimes, the term does clear political-aesthetic work.

This symposium seeks to trouble and unsettle the idea of the 
postindustrial. Interdisciplinary in nature, it will involve a series of 
provocations by invited speakers. Presentations will consider the ways 
in which these spaces are imagined, temporalised and represented. The 
symposium will stimulate debate across the humanities and social 
sciences, bringing together scholars from literature, history, cultural 
geography, environmental humanities, archaeology, heritage policy, 
anthropology and sociology to engage with these debates.


*Keynote speakers:*

*Professor Tim Strangleman (University of Kent)*

*Professor Valerie Walkerdine (Cardiff University)*


Book a place 
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http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/centre-for-research-in-memory-narrative-and-histories/centre-events/annual-symposia/symposium-postindustrial-imaginaries-beyond-progress,-memory-and-loss


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