Haunts #2: The Haunted Home (10-12-2020) - online conference recording
Channel: Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group
Date: 2020-12-13

In December 2020 the Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group convened its second Zoom event on the theme of 'Haunts'. The event, Haunts #2: the Haunted Home, comprised six presentations ranging across cultural geography, literature, fine art and sociology - all looking at the ways in which people, objects and atmospheres co-inhabit domestic space. The presentations, each in their own way, share a concern with the effects and consequences of striving for that comfortable domestic co-existence. But as it is not always attainable, human inhabitants must sometimes find ways to live with the uncanny - the not-quite-homely; not-quite-comfortable - which emerges at limits of this wrangling. Here a multi-faceted sense of haunting can slip-free from even the most elaborate attempts at home-making.

The speakers comprise:

Introduction & Session Chair

Luke Bennett, Associate Professor, Department of the Natural & Built Environment, Sheffield Hallam University

Co-habiting with ghosts

Caron Lipman, Honorary Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London

Remnants and layers: hauntings of everyday domestic space

Jackie Leaver, Senior Lecturer in the Art & Design Dept (BA Product & Furniture Design, & MA Design), Sheffield Hallam University

The Gothic sofa – most uncanny, most fantastic

Mary Peace, Senior Lecturer, Department of the Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University

Homelessness behind closed doors: the unheimlich

Lindsey McCarthy, Research Fellow (Housing), Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University

The home as a haunted crime scene in the early modern true crime classic: Arden of Faversham

Susan Anderson, Reader in English, Sheffield Hallam University

The haunted home from home: why school has never been modern

Jo Ray, Lecturer in Design, University of Derby, & Research Associate: ‘Odd: Feeling Different in the World of Education’ MMU.

Becky Shaw, Reader in Fine Art, Sheffield Institute of Arts, Sheffield Hallam University.

For details of forthcoming events in this Haunts series please follow Luke on Twitter @lukebennett13 or via his blog at https://lukebennett13.wordpress.com