Conference programme.*

All panels are open to the public and free, without need for registration

 

24 JUNE

Technological Communities: 10am-12pm

Sarah Jaffray, Goldsmiths College, University of London: Unconscious Subversion: The New Cartography of Geo-Tagged Memories

 

Alex Annetts, Anglia Ruskin University: Recognising Interdependency, Privilege and Gender Bias within the Audio Technology Community 

 

Katrine Nielson, Goldsmiths College, University of London: Working Together? Linkedin and the Changing Nature of Employment

 

Macon Holt, Goldsmiths College, University of London: Collective Memory, Capitalist Realism and Popular Music

 

Visual Cultures/Visual Studies: 1pm-3pm

Elisa Adami: Unfinished Ruins. Exercises of Historical Re-Imagination in the Post-Soviet Panorama

 

Silvia Mollicchi: Goldsmiths College, University of London: Disavowing Archives

 

Aretousa Bloom: Nation-Making and the Visual Culture of the ‘Riot Cleanups’

 

Yahia Ali, School of Architecture, University of Sheffield: The Emergence of Modern Architecture in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan: an Aspect of Postcolonial Culture  

 

New Conceptions of Space: 3:15pm-5:15pm

Nicole Sansone, Goldsmiths College, University of London: Cyberspace, Digi Eco Art Activism 

 

Kerry Doran, Courtauld Institute: Does new media art exist?: The transcoding of contemporary art, or, the end of new media art as we know it

 

Trish Scott, University of the Arts, London: The archive at work: challenging paradigms of archival use and value

 

Yet Chor Sunshine Wong, University of Wolverhampton: Coalitions: Art and Social Engagement

 

 

25 JUNE

Questions of Common Ground: 10am-11am

Peter Wolfendale: The Social Structure of Consensus

 

Kraig Brown, Goldsmiths College, University of London: Critiquing Common Ground

 

Plenary Speaker: 11am-12pm

Dr. Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural Studies, East London University

Author of Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics, and the forth-coming Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism

 

Political Identity: 1pm-3pm

Anya Topolski, University of Leuven: Deconstructing the Idea of Europe: The Exclusionary Modality of the ‘Judeo-Christian’ Tradition

 

Lukas Slothuus, London School of Economics: Aesthetic Politics on the Extreme Right: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Politicisation of Cultural Objects by the Danish People’s  

 

Aurelien Mondon, University of Bath: Against common ground: the mainstreaming of the new extreme right

 

Hui-Ju Chang, School of Architecture, University of Sheffield: A ‘universal’ self-image of modernity: the veneer of civilisation and enlightenment in early modern Japan 

 

Political Action: 3:15pm-5:15pm

Johannes Lenhard: Killing with kindness? – ‘Zones of humanity’ for beggars in East London 

 

Agnes Ziolkowski: Rupturing Phallologocentric Hegemony in the Public Sphere 

 

Rebecca Beinart and David Bell, Wasteland Twinning Nottingham (artist/research network): Waste or Common? A Workshop on Nottingham's 'Island', Creativity and Capital

 

Luca Manunza, University Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples: Between War and Revolution the Role of Humanitarian Agencies During the Tunisian Revolution

 

*The schedule times and papers are subject to change