The symptom: An interdisciplinary workshop

You are invited to an upcoming event focused on interdisciplinary approaches to the ‘symptom’. From Gramsci’s ‘morbid symptoms’ of social crisis to Jameson’s ‘symptomatic reading’ of literature’s political unconscious; from the symptom as a sign to be interpreted, to the symptom as a problem to be managed; from psychoanalysis to medicine — symptoms abound in our conjuncture. How are we to read them? What would a symptomology of the present look like? In what discipline, or disciplines, would such a study occur? 

The public component of this one-day workshop will include six presentations from scholars across UNSW (and beyond!), each treating the symptom from a different point of departure. 

Speakers: 

• Professor Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University)
• Associate Professor Vicki Sentas (Law & Justice, UNSW)
• Dr Andrew Brooks (School of Arts & the Media, UNSW)
• Associate Professor Sigi Jottkandt (School of Arts & the Media, UNSW)
• Toyah Webb (PhD candidate, School of Art & Design, UNSW)
• Dr Faraidoon Haghdoost (Medicine & Health, UNSW). 

The event will be moderated by Dr Astrid Lorange (School of Art & Design, UNSW)