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Haunting Issues: Children Spectrality and Culture AHRC Research Network, with researchers from around the UK, Europe, and Australia.

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Haunting Issues: Children, Spectrality and Culture @ahrcpress Research Network is live! Exploring the child at the boundary of life and death in literature & culture, relationships between nationality and spectral children, and between care-giving and the missing child.

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Such a pleasure to introduce our final screening for the Spectral Child on Screen series. Abrahamson’s ‘The Little Stranger’ remains profoundly eerie, poignant and beautiful. Huge thanks to @HydeParkPH for collaborating with us.

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Ahead of our 'Spectral Child on Screen' film festival @HydeParkPH @spectres_of has written a contribution to the Hyde Park Picture House journal, on the phenomena of the cinematic ghost child in contemporary film. You can read it here: https://t.co/sgd7gp4WKJ

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Our programme has been chosen to explore the various ways in which, historically and culturally, the ghostly or spectral child has functioned as a motif in international cinema. We hope you can join us!

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Join us this Sunday for the first of our 'Spectral Child on Screen' events @HydeParkPH ! On the 15th September we will be hosting a double bill of Peter Medak's 'The Changeling' and Guillermo del Toro's 'The Devil's Backbone'. See https://t.co/beAd9U32Wk for tickets!

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The following week, on Sunday 22nd September the series will culminate in a screening of Lenny Abrahamson's adaptation of Sarah Waters' 'The Little Stranger' (https://t.co/beAd9U32Wk)

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For more details and precise dates email @spectres_of ([email protected])

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Lit and film folks in the north! @HauntingIssues are looking for academics to give intros to 2 of our ‘Spectral Child on Screen’ film screenings this September! If you can speak to Abrahamson’s ‘The Little Stranger’ or del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s Backbone’ we want to hear from you!

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Of course after all that a little refreshment was necessary

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@DrDominicDean rounded out our discussion panels with a fascinating paper on spectres of the climate crisis.

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The excellent @Emily__Vincent starting our first academic panel with a discussion of the spectral child and the eco gothic.

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Our second session of the morning saw colleagues from @NewWritingNorth update us on one of the engagement projects which has emerged from the network - a creative writing initiative with students from the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community.

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A wonderful welcome to Newcastle and to the day from our Co-I @ProfKatyShaw who gave an exciting update on what the network has achieved to date.

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@HauntingIssues have our final workshop today at the wonderful Common Room, Newcastle. Looking forward to a day with of discussions around the Spectral Child and the Anthropocene.

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Scholars of childhood, borders and haunting: Following @HauntingIssues workshop 1 in June 23, abstracts are sought for a proposal for a special issue of @ChildrensGeogs ‘The Spectral Child at the Border’ See link for further details of the proposed issue: https://t.co/hSPtd6vhS5

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Visit our Blog for a new post from @spectres_of on ‘The Kids Who [Don’t] Come Back: Thoughts on “Ghost Children” and the Post-Covid Education Landscape’ https://t.co/slAs3snHWZ

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Scholars of childhood, borders and haunting: Following @HauntingIssues workshop 1 in June 23, abstracts are sought for a proposal for a special issue of @ChildrensGeogs ‘The Spectral Child at the Border’ See link for further details of the proposed issue: https://t.co/hSPtd6vhS5

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Enormous thanks to all of our speakers for their generous and insightful contributions.

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@spectres_of had the great pleasure of joining legal scholar Dr Andrea Mulligan, midwife and law PhD candidate Julika Hudson, and authors Jessica Traynor and Alice Kinsella last night for a fascinating discussion on the subject of the child in Irish law, culture and society.

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The conversation was enormously rich and we hope to be able to share some of the insights which emerged in a full event write up very soon.

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Delighted to be in Dublin for a round table on The Spectral Child and the Law. This conversation will bring together creative writers, clinicians and legal scholars to think about a range of topics pertaining to the law and the child, both historically and in our present moment.