Keynote Speaker:
Samir Addad
Contact Info: 732 207 8582, 848-313-0622
This event is supported by the Rutgers Graduate Student Association
Event Summary
Ghosts have haunted human awareness for millennia. Despite efforts - especially during the Enlightenment era - to rationalize and suppress its presence, the spectral figures have persisted. Yet, as Jacques Derrida notes, "The ghost is the name for the thing that cannot be seen, that cannot be touched, but that insists and returns.," They have returned and taken up the different forms; a train as a symbol of industrialization's dehumanizing forces, migrants who become figures of fear on account of the cultural and religious marks carried on and some individuals due to physical disfigurement because they do not fit the definition of the perfect "human body". The ghost also haunts across time. Past events knock on the door of the present in powerful and unsettling ways.
The ghost, either known or unknown, cannot be suppressed, it becomes a force of resistance, challenging dominant narratives and offering voices that resist erasure.
Panel One: 9:30-10:40 moderated by Florence | Haunting Memory from Unforgetful Past
- Jordan Eloundou: Poetique de la memoire dans Cahier d'un retour au pays natal d'Aime Cesaire et L'Esclave vieil homme et le molosse de Patrick Chamoiseau.
- Marius Kahakeu: De la cartographie de la catastrophe existentielle vers une reimagination d'un nouvel etre au monde dans des espaces-memoires dans L'L'EVH et le M de Chamoiseau
- Neda Mozzaffari: Voix kanak, langage decolonial : theatre et conflictualite discursive dans l'reuvre de Pierre Gape
Panel Two: 10:40-11:30 moderated by Shivani | Ghosts haunts in the Historical Ruined Space
- Mia X. Perez: Becoming-Ruin: An EcoGothic Theory of Apocalypse and Phantasm
- Lethiwe Zondo: Spectral Landscapes of Ntabamnyama: Haunting, Erasure, and Historical Resistance
COFFEE BREAK 11:30-11:40
Samir Haddad as a Guest Speaker | Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University | Ghosts & the Philosophical Canon (50 mins)
LUNCH BREAK: 35 MIN 12:30-13:30
Panel Three: 13:30-14:30 moderated by Alice | When presence is denied, haunting becomes a form of Resistance
- Noah Kupper: Haunting Belonging- Ghosts of Home, Protest, and Erasure
- Joia Duskic: The Arctic is Not Empty: Maret Anne Sara's Duodji, Haunting, and the Materiality of Sarni Sovereignty
- Paul Cappuzzo: Productivity as a Poltergeist: Neoliberal Hauntings, Disability Institutions, and Meaning Making
Panel Four: 14:30-15:30 moderated by Michel | Becoming a haunting Figure and Rejection
- Nishtha Sharma: Social Alienation and Ghosting in Neurodiverse Childhood: A Reflection Through Le Bizarre Incident du chien pendant la nuit
- Lena Triiper: Haunted Houseflies.
- Mathis Wuillot : How to Perform Authenticity through Re(appropriation): A quick survey of poetic commentaries as a way to enter a poetry career.
Contact 732 207 8582, 848-313-0622