{"id":5598,"date":"2016-05-12T15:25:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2016-08-25T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T10:21:08","slug":"knights-move-avery-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/?p=5598","title":{"rendered":"The Knight&#8217;s Move: Avery Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Our collective history is strewn with ghost stories that eventually come back to haunt us, stories that give an ominous approach to our past. This might not appear as a scientific view, yet it proves to be a very suitable way of understanding the invisible, and sometimes horrific moments in history. Ghost stories push the imagination into an abyss of previously untold possibilities.<\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-US\">Avery Gordon, sociologist at the University of California, explicitly uses this imaginative<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span>\u2018unscientific\u2019 approach in her work to shed light on the shadowy sides of our history. What if we treat racism, sexism, and inequality as specters from a murky past? And can we become ghost hunters to locate the role these ghosts have in the present? Which dark parts of the past haunt the city of Amsterdam today?<\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-US\">These are questions for The Knight\u2019s Move with Avery Gordon on June 16th at De Nieuwe Anita. A night for a curious audience, both culturally or academically, who are willing to dredge in the deep and be drawn towards the gloom.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Thursday 16 June 2016, 20.00-22.00 (doors open: 18.00)<br \/>\nLocation: De Nieuw Anita, Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, Amsterdam<br \/>\nLanguage: English<br \/>\nModerator: Jeroen Boomgaard<br \/>\nTickets:\u00a0\u20ac3.- at the door<br \/>\nPlease let us know if you are coming on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/546681998846133\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/div>\n<div>If you cannot make it to the talk in Amsterdam, Avery will also speak at Stroom in The Hague the day before:<br \/>\nWednesday 15 June 2016, 20 \u2013 22 hrs (doors open: 19:30 hrs)<br \/>\nLocation: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1, The Hague<br \/>\nLanguage: English<br \/>\nModerator: Patrick van der Hijden (Angl)<br \/>\nTickets via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.nl\/e\/tickets-the-knights-move-avery-gordon-25398832592\">Eventbrite<\/a>\u00a0or at the door: \u20ac 7,50<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our collective history is strewn with ghost stories that eventually come back to haunt us, stories that give an ominous approach to our past. This might not appear as a scientific view, yet it proves<span class=\"ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,628],"tags":[738,739,35,771,418,635],"language":[19],"class_list":["post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lecture","category-produces","tag-avery-gordon","tag-de-nieuwe-anita","tag-jeroen-boomgaard","tag-lezing","tag-stroom","tag-the-knights-move","language-en_us"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5615,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions\/5615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}