Programme

Ideologies, Affects, and Totalising Discourses (WT, Studio 1)

8.30-9.00: Registration and Coffee (School of English Foyer)

9.00-10.45
Panel IA. Crossing Cultures under Capitalism (Workshop Theatre, Studio 1)

Chair: Kaley Kramer

1. Gwendolyn Starks (University of St. Andrews): “All the World’s a Stage”: Augusto Boal’s World Stage Ideology
2. Kim Sasser (University of Edinburgh): The Jaguar Smile: Cosmopolitan Solidarity or Appropriation?
3. Danielle Child (University of Leeds): Art, Politics and Collectivity under the ‘New Spirit of Capitalism’

Panel IB. Politicising Aesthetics (WT, Studio 2)

Chair: Nasser Hussein

1. Scott Duguid (University of Edinburgh): ‘The Minority Within’: The modernism of Norman Mailer’s aesthetics of dissent
2. Natalie Pollard (University of York): Violence and Poetry: Geoffrey Hill’s Civil Power
3. Edward Quipp (University of Edinburgh): Singular Difficulty – Lyric Openings in the Public Realm
4. Terry Craven (Goldsmiths College, University of London): Re-addressing the Political in Poetry

10.45- 11.05: Coffee (SE Foyer)

11.05- 11.45: Shirley Chew and Mark Taylor-Batty: On Publication (WT, Studio 1)

11.45-13.15: Lunch (SE Foyer)

13.15- 14.15: Keynote Address by Derek Attridge: Risky Investments: Art and Effectivity (WT, Studio 1)

Attridge

14.15- 14.35: R. Max Vollmer: fragments – Brocken (WT, Studio 1)

Vollmer

14.35-14.45: Short Break

14.45- 16.15
Panel IIA. Feminisms, Gender Politics, Activisms (WT, Studio 1)

Chair: Lucy Evans

1. Kate Antosik Parsons (University College Dublin): Politics, Patriarchy & Power: Feminism in Contemporary Irish Art Practice
2. Lena Wånggren (University of Edinburgh): Making a Spectacle out of Oneself: Burlesque Performance as Parody and Politics
3. Carmen Otilia Teodorescu (University of Constance): Poetry as Politics and Love as Resistance: Dionne Brand’s Love Poetry

Panel IIB. Political Histories: Recording, Speaking to, Resisting Power (WT, Studio 2)

Chair: Alberto Fernández Carbajal

1. Simon Cooper (Newcastle University): Strange Funeral in Braddock: Loss as commodity in the mid-1930s
2. Cara Levey (University of Leeds): ‘Memory is the weapon’: Art and resistance in contemporary Buenos Aires
3. Pei-chen Liao (National Taiwan University): The Uncanny Violence of the Strangers to Ourselves: Post-9/11 Terror in Shalimar the Clown

16.15- 16.40: Coffee Break (SE Foyer)

16.40- 18.25

Panel IIIA. Ideologies, Affects, and Totalising Discourses (WT, Studio 1)

Chair: Anthony Carrigan

1. James Hudson (University of Leeds): From Bread and Circuses to the Rational Theatre: Desublimating Repressive Desublimation
2. Elsa Bouet (University of Edinburgh): The Dispossessed: The Man Lost in Ideology
3. Orianna Cacchione (University of California, San Diego) and Margit Neuhold (Goldsmiths College, University of London): The new Nomads: Politics of Aesthetics within Altermodernity
4. Helen Wright (Loughborough University): Power in Conflict: Instrumentalism vs. Ethics

Panel IIIB. The Politics of Visual Art (WT, Studio 2)

Chair: Reshma Jagernath

1. Heather A. Crawley (University of Bristol): Icon or Idol? Controlling Sacred Art in Late Antique Iconoclasm
2. Noa Roei (University of Amsterdam): Mobilizing political ineffectiveness in contemporary Israeli art
3. Yvonne Kyriakides (University of Oxford): The politicization of silence in post WWII art production
4. Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom (University of Sussex): Conflicted Representations: Alexander Rodchenko and the White Sea Canal issue of USSR in Construction

fin

18.25- Wine Reception (SE Foyer)