@HauntingIssues

Haunting Issues: Children Spectrality and Culture AHRC Research Network, with researchers from around the UK, Europe, and Australia.

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Haunting Issues: Children, Spectrality and Culture @ahrcpress Research Network is live! Exploring the child at the boundary of life and death in literature & culture, relationships between nationality and spectral children, and between care-giving and the missing child.
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Such a pleasure to introduce our final screening for the Spectral Child on Screen series. Abrahamson’s ‘The Little Stranger’ remains profoundly eerie, poignant and beautiful. Huge thanks to @HydeParkPH for collaborating with us.
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Ahead of our 'Spectral Child on Screen' film festival @HydeParkPH @spectres_of has written a contribution to the Hyde Park Picture House journal, on the phenomena of the cinematic ghost child in contemporary film. You can read it here: hpph.co.uk/journal/phantom-o…
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Join us this Sunday for the first of our 'Spectral Child on Screen' events @HydeParkPH ! On the 15th September we will be hosting a double bill of Peter Medak's 'The Changeling' and Guillermo del Toro's 'The Devil's Backbone'. See hpph.co.uk for tickets!
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The following week, on Sunday 22nd September the series will culminate in a screening of Lenny Abrahamson's adaptation of Sarah Waters' 'The Little Stranger' (hpph.co.uk)
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Our programme has been chosen to explore the various ways in which, historically and culturally, the ghostly or spectral child has functioned as a motif in international cinema. We hope you can join us!
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Lit and film folks in the north! @HauntingIssues are looking for academics to give intros to 2 of our ‘Spectral Child on Screen’ film screenings this September! If you can speak to Abrahamson’s ‘The Little Stranger’ or del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s Backbone’ we want to hear from you!
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For more details and precise dates email @spectres_of (lucy.arnold@worc.ac.uk)
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@DrDominicDean rounded out our discussion panels with a fascinating paper on spectres of the climate crisis.
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Of course after all that a little refreshment was necessary
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The excellent @Emily__Vincent starting our first academic panel with a discussion of the spectral child and the eco gothic.
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Our second session of the morning saw colleagues from @NewWritingNorth update us on one of the engagement projects which has emerged from the network - a creative writing initiative with students from the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community.
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A wonderful welcome to Newcastle and to the day from our Co-I @ProfKatyShaw who gave an exciting update on what the network has achieved to date.
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@HauntingIssues have our final workshop today at the wonderful Common Room, Newcastle. Looking forward to a day with of discussions around the Spectral Child and the Anthropocene.
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Scholars of childhood, borders and haunting: Following @HauntingIssues workshop 1 in June 23, abstracts are sought for a proposal for a special issue of @ChildrensGeogs ‘The Spectral Child at the Border’ See link for further details of the proposed issue: 1drv.ms/w/s!Al7Lm7fsUViK2kSR…
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Visit our Blog for a new post from @spectres_of on ‘The Kids Who [Don’t] Come Back: Thoughts on “Ghost Children” and the Post-Covid Education Landscape’ sway.cloud.microsoft/GDltIdi…

Haunting Issues: Children Spectrality and Culture AHRC Research Network

The present moment is in many respects a traumatic moment to be a child. Children exist at the intersection of a global pandemic which has restricted access to family, friends and education; armed con

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Scholars of childhood, borders and haunting: Following @HauntingIssues workshop 1 in June 23, abstracts are sought for a proposal for a special issue of @ChildrensGeogs ‘The Spectral Child at the Border’ See link for further details of the proposed issue: 1drv.ms/w/s!Al7Lm7fsUViK2kSR…
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@spectres_of had the great pleasure of joining legal scholar Dr Andrea Mulligan, midwife and law PhD candidate Julika Hudson, and authors Jessica Traynor and Alice Kinsella last night for a fascinating discussion on the subject of the child in Irish law, culture and society.
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The conversation was enormously rich and we hope to be able to share some of the insights which emerged in a full event write up very soon.
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Enormous thanks to all of our speakers for their generous and insightful contributions.
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Delighted to be in Dublin for a round table on The Spectral Child and the Law. This conversation will bring together creative writers, clinicians and legal scholars to think about a range of topics pertaining to the law and the child, both historically and in our present moment.
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A huge thank you to everyone who attended our second workshop yesterday, to @spectres_of for organising, and to @NSCAP_NHS in Leeds for hosting. What a productive and powerful day, full of interdisciplinary exchange!
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A challenging, emotive, important and invigorating day at the second Workshop of @HauntingIssues in collection with @NSCAP_NHS in Leeds. Thank you to the practitioners for sharing their knowledge and experience with us of Spectral children and ghosts in the nursery of therapy.
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