Centre for Gender Studies and Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), University of Hull (Web)

Venue: University of Hull/GB
Time: 26.11.2014
Proposals by: 05.09.2014

The conference interrogates the meanings and uses/abuses of ‚happiness‘ and the power of pleasure through a gendered/intersectional lens from interdisciplinary perspectives, for example, gender studies, social sciences, development studies, literature, film, media, history, philosophy, health studies, law, education etc. It wants to encourage a discussion of happiness in a positive sense, for example exploring the importance of happiness and pleasure in individual gendered lives.

The conference also wants to critically interrogate happiness, to consider the tyranny of happiness, for example, Sara Ahmed (2010, 2014) has talked about happiness and the gloss of equality and diversity talk as, ‚A boil that bursts through a beaming smile; a shiny apple with a rotten core […] Diversity becomes here a … read more … (Web)