Thinking in Dark Times: Assessing the Legacies of Zygmunt Bauman’s Work
- Date
- Wednesday 16 - Thursday 17 January, 2019
- Location
- Chemistry West Block Lecture Theatre F
- Organised by
- Bauman Institute and CentreCATH
This transdisciplinary symposium will mark the second anniversary of the death of this renowned and internationally influential sociologist and cultural analyst. The symposium brings together international speakers to share new research on his biography, the historical shaping of his key concepts of the stranger, the exile, the refugee, his role in the theorizing of the gig economy in liquid modernity, his contributions to political thought, and issues of friendship and intimacy. It completes an eighteen month project titled Thinking in Dark Times.
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Programme
Wednesday 16 January
12.00
Registration tea and coffee
13.00
Opening remarks
13.30-15.30
Izabela Wagner-Saffrey: Lessons from Biography
chair Griselda Pollock
15.30-16.00
Tea and coffee
16.00-17.15
Aleksandra Kania, Janet Wolff: Life, Intimacy & Place
17.15-18.15
Dariusz Brzeziński: Zygmunt Bauman’s Sketches in the theory of Culture: lost and found
chair jack palmer
18.30-20.00
Dinner break (we recommend the refectory in the union)
20.00
Screening: Zygmunt Bauman film (Fine Art building common room)
Thursday 17 January
9.30-11.00
Antony Bryant: Gig Economy as a Liquid Modern Institution?
chair: Mark Davis
11.00
Tea and coffee
11.30-12.45
Mark Davis: ‘Post Truth’ and the Liquid Modern Intellectual
chair: Antony Bryant
12.45
Lunch
13.45
Jack Palmer, Tom Campbell and the Special Collections Team (Brotherton library): Archiving Janina and Zygmunt Bauman
Short contributions
chair: Max Silverman
14.45
Bryan Cheyette: Bauman and the Stranger
15.15
Irena Bauman: Conversations about Liquid Management
15.45
Neil Lawson: Liquid Politics
16.15
Griselda Pollock: Public Interventions
16.45
Discussion
17.30
Concluding remarks