Programme: Appropriating Space Feb 2008

Appropriating Space Programme Goldsmiths, University of London Friday, 22 February 2008 Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre 9:30-10:00 Registration and check-in open. 10:00-10:10 Introduction and Welcome Anna Porubcansky, Appropriating Space Co-Chair 10:15-10:30 Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek PhD in Communication Arts University of Western Sydney You Aren’t Here: Graffiti, the ‘Non Place’ and the Creative Transformation of Urban Space 10:30-10:40 Question and Answer session led by Anna 10:45-11:00 Anna Fewster Collaborative DPhil University of Sussex and The Charleston Trust Black Shapes on White Spaces: Reading the Negative Space of Virginia Woolf’s Fiction 11:00-11:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger 11:15-11:30 Mehita Iqani PhD in Media and Communications London School of Economics Point of Sale: The Magazine Newsstand as Socio-semiotic Space 11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou 11:45-12:00 Patrik Meier PhD Anthropology SOAS, University of London Weaving ‘Modern’ Practices into ‘Traditional’ Space: Young Men in the Tourist Business Shaping Aleppo’s Old City Suq 12:00-12:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani 12:15-1:15 Lunch Location: Room Change to the Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 137A 1:30-1:45 Rachel Shapiro PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London Giant Marionettes, Police Blockades and the Politics of Street Festival in Paris’ Goutte d’Or Neighbourhood 1:45-1:55 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A 2:00-2:15 Nick Ferguson PhD Fine Art Goldsmiths, University of London My Space? Claiming the 2012 Olympic Park 2:15-2:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger 2:25-2:40 Daniel Bird Bakhtin Centre Sheffield University Hades Under Krakow: Reclaiming the Salt Mines of Wieliczka as a Greek Performance Space 2:40-2:50 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou 3:00-3:45 Panel Session 3:45-4:00 Break for coffee, tea and snacks 4:00-4:15 Shanu Sadhwani PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London Crossing Borders: Hybrid Performances and the British Asian Stage 4:15-4:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A 4:30-4:45 Jamie Furniss DPhil, Department of International Development Oxford University The Politics of Space: Putting Egypt’s Garbage and Garbage Collectors in their Place 4:45-4:55 Question and Answer session led by Rachel Shapiro 5:00-5:15 Holly Prescott MA in Literature and Cultural Studies Lancaster University ‘Authorised’ Personnel Only: Abandonment, Space and Power in Urban Exploration Photography 5:15-5:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger 5:30-5:45 Anna Porubcansky PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London Transforming the Social Performing Group: Song of the Goat Theatre and its Expeditions into Space 5:45-5:55 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou 6:00 Closing remarks Rachel Shapiro, Appropriating Space Co-Chair 6:15 Drinks in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union Saturday, 23 February 2008 Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre 10:30-11:00 Late registration and check-in open. 11:00-11:10 Opening remarks Rachel Shapiro, Appropriating Space Co-Chair 11:15-11:30 Lucia Vodanovic PhD Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London Rethinking Appropriation: Reference and Difference 11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Rachel 11:45-12:00 Siobhan Peeling PhD School of History University of Nottingham Soviet Facades and Backyards: Appropriations of Leningrad’s Public Spaces after the Second World War 12:00-12:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani 12:15-12:30 Arabella Stanger PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London William Forsythe and the Choreography of Space: Redefining the Classical Stage 12:30-12:40 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou 12:40-1:40 Lunch Break 1:45-2:00 Jennifer Laws PhD Department of Geography Durham University Dissident Spaces: the Spatialities of Listening, Survivorship, and Anti-/Psychiatry 2:00-2:10 Question and Answer session led by Anna Porubcansky 2:15-2:30 Richard J Piatt, O.S.A PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London The Space In-Between: Augusto Boal’s notion of Metaxis in light of the ‘Kingdom of God’ 2:30-2:40 Question and Answer session led by Rachel Shapiro 2:45-3:00 Chris Little MPhil Interdisciplinary Studies Manchester Metropolitan University The Effects of Surveillance of Public Space on a Post-Millennium Youth Subculture 3:00-3:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani 3:15-3:30 Break for coffee, tea and snacks 3:30-3:45 Maria Kogkou PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London How the Local took Centre-stage: The Case of the Bush Theatre 3:45-3:55 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger 4:00-4:15 Laura Mansfield MA Cultural and Critical Theory Birkbeck College, London Fish and Chips in Formica Fitted Cafes, Cups of Tea and Ice Creams, and the English Seaside 4:15-4:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A 4:30-4:45 Stephen Parkin PhD Sociology Plymouth University Purity, Danger and the Displacement of Injecting Drug Users: The Appropriation and Re-Appropriation of Space in an Urban Environment 4:45-4:55 Question and Answer session led by Anna Porubcansky 4:55-5:00 Short break for roundtable setup 5:00-6:00 Roundtable discussion 6:00-6:10 Closing Remarks Anna Porubcansky, Appropriating Space Co-Chair 6:30-11:00 Closing night reception for participants and their guests at Café Crema