Our guest speaker Dr Chris Vardy (University of Manchester) presents: \u2018Contemporary Prehistories’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wednesday 26 April 2-4pm<\/strong> at the University of Salford Irwell Valley campus<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please write to S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk if you would like to join us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This paper analyses the representation of human \u2018prehistory\u2019 in contemporary writing. Politicised and racialised fantasies about the \u2018prehistoric\u2019 human (a concept that emerges in the late nineteenth century) are prominent throughout modern cultural production, from Freud and Marx to Picasso, Hepworth, H.G. Wells and William Golding. What happens to prehistory in the early twenty-first century, when archaeological and scientific advances provide increasingly detailed and precise historical information about early humans, and when the colonialist and gender essentialist underpinnings of modern accounts of prehistory are subject to unprecedented critical scrutiny? How do we think with prehistory now, when competing longue dur\u00e9e<\/em> accounts of anthropogenic climate crisis and ecological collapse are so culturally prominent, and when these increasingly existential threats direct attention to the remains of previous extinction events and long-collapsed cultures?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris Vardy<\/strong> is a Lecturer in 20th<\/sup>\u00a0Century Literature at the University of Manchester. He is writing a book analysing contemporary British representations of the 1980s and Thatcherism called Remembering the End of History<\/em>, and has published a number of articles on twenty-first-century historical writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our guest speaker Dr Chris Vardy (University of Manchester) presents: \u2018Contemporary Prehistories’ Wednesday 26 April 2-4pm at the University of Salford Irwell Valley campus Please write to S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk if you would like to join us! Abstract This paper analyses the representation of human \u2018prehistory\u2019 in contemporary writing. Politicised and racialised fantasies about the \u2018prehistoric\u2019 human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":1640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,16],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events","tag-english-at-salford","tag-salford-english-research-seminar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n