The editors of Skepsi, the postgraduate-run journal within SECL, have organised a conference on ‘The Secret in Contemporary Theory, Society, and Culture’, held over two days from tomorrow, 30 May 2014.
With WikiLeaks and the Snowden case, the international newsreel has recently been increasingly concerned with revelations of secrets, allowing the confidential, private sphere to mix with the public, popular domain. It has prompted us to question what constitutes a secret, and what function secrets have in society today. This Skepsi conference covers an interdisciplinary range of topics related to the philosophical, theoretical and cultural context of the secret: the secret and philosophy, the public versus the private, dreams and thresholds, espionage as well as secrets and literature.
For the full conference programme, please see the page:
www.kent.ac.uk/secl/events
For more about the journal Skepsi, please see its website here:
blogs.kent.ac.uk/skepsi/issues/