The Knight’s Move: Avery Gordon

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 20-22 hrs
(doors open: 19.30 hrs
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Language spoken: English
Moderator: Patrick van der Hijden (Angl)
Tickets: € 7,50 via Eventbrite or at the door
www.theknightsmove.nl

Our collective history is strewn with ghost stories that eventually come back to haunt us, stories that give an ominous approach to our past. This might not appear as a scientific view, yet it proves to be a very suitable way of understanding the invisible, and sometimes horrific moments in history. Ghost stories push the imagination into an abyss of previously untold possibilities.
 
Avery Gordon, sociologist at the University of California, explicitly uses this imaginative ‘unscientific' approach in her work to shed light on the shadowy sides of our history. What if we treat racism, sexism, and inequality as specters from a murky past? And can we become 'Ghostbusters' to locate the role these ghosts have in the present? Which dark parts of the past haunt the city of The Hague today?
 
This edition of The Knight's Move promises to be a night for a curious audience, both culturally and academically, for people who are willing to dredge in the deep and be drawn towards the gloom.

If you cannot make it to the talk in The Hague, Avery Gordon will also speak in De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam the following day:
Thursday 16 June 2016, 20 hrs - 22 hrs
Location: De Nieuwe Anita, Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, Amsterdam

The Knight's Move
Over the past five years Stroom Den Haag has organized The Knight's Move: a series of lectures by leading, inspiring and occasionally radical international guests. Great talks for everyone who is interested in the future of the city and the future of The Hague. Enlightening, unsettling and inspiring. For the 2015-2016 season Stroom joins forces with The Hague International Center for Civic Hacks, het Nationale Toneel & Babel, Leiden University and LAPS Amsterdam to widen, sharpen and deepen the way we talk about the city. And to create a place where enthusiastic and curious urban 'doers and thinkers' meet.

The Knight's Move is made possible in part by the Haagse Bluf Fonds (via Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds) and The City of The Hague.
Survey The Knight's Move 2009-present

Wednesday 15 Jun '16 20:00 hrs
Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Entrance: 7,50 euro