October 5, Sunday, 15:00-17:00
Venue: Hrant Dink Foundation Anarad Hığutyun Building
Papa Roncalli St. No: 128 Harbiye, Şişli/İstanbul
*The talk will be in English and there will be no simultaneous translation.
This talk is organized by the cooperation of Hrant Dink Foundation and Beyondrest x Waves.
In this talk, Avery F. Gordon will discuss the main concerns and problematics at the heart of two of her books, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination and The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins and will introduce her current work-in-progress, a book of creative non-fiction about a soldier rebellion in Korea in 1948 that provoked a people's uprising that was brutally suppressed. The talk raises questions of dissonant memories and the evidence of things unseen.
The talk will be moderated by Ayfer Bartu Candan from the Hrant Dink Foundation. Please click here to register.
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Avery F. Gordon Avery F. Gordon was a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara for thirty years and is currently Visiting Professor at Birkbeck School of Law University of London. She is the author of The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins (2018); The Workhouse: The Breitenau Room (with Ines Schaber) (2015); Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (1997/2008); Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People (2004) and Mapping Multiculturalism (1997), among other books and articles. Her work focuses on radical thought and practice and she writes about captivity, enslavement, war and other forms of dispossession and how to eliminate them. She served on the Editorial Committee of the journal Race & Class for many years and was the co-host of No Alibis, a weekly public affairs radio program on KCSB FM Santa Barbara from 1997-2023. She is an active member of the Hawthorn Archive and was its keeper for many years. |
The research group Beyondrest "Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge” conceptualizes restitution not as an endpoint to mend loss and dispossession but as a starting point to transform the ways in which we make knowledge on art and heritage. Waves is an independent and interdisciplinary research initiative in İstanbul that brings together scholars, artists, and students for seminars, workshops, and reading groups to create, explore, and discuss a series of vital yet unthought questions regarding the history of the present.
Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge (BEYONDREST) is an ERC-funded, five-year research project at the Forum Transregionale Studien (Project No. 101045661).
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the speaker(s) and author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union, nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
