Book Talk with Dominic Pettman | Ghosting: On Disappearance
Join us for an engaging evening of personal narratives and critical conversation as New School students share their experiences with ghosting — that modern phenomenon of abrupt disappearance in relationships, friendship, work, and beyond. Drawing on themes from Ghosting: On Disappearance (Polity 2025) by University Professor Dominic Pettman, this event brings lived stories into dialogue with broader cultural and technological questions about presence, absence, and connection in our mediated world. Professor Pettman will be joined in conversation by Zed Adams, Vice President of Technology, to explore how ghosting reflects deeper patterns of disconnection and what it reveals about how we relate to others today. Student storytellers include Abby Merrick, Duru Hamutcu, Marcus Rosen, and Six Lauture.
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Presented by: the Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities (IPNH) and the Office of University Initiatives.