Tuesday 24 January 2012

The Politics of Practice Programme Announced

We are delighted to announce the finalised programme for The Politics of Practice, the international postgraduate colloquium taking place at Goldsmiths, University of London on 17 and 18 February 2012. As is clear from the programme below, this promises to be another exciting event organised by the student division of the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group.

To register your interest and reserve your place at the colloquium please email stpr.group@gmail.com.

The Politics of Practice

An International Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students
Goldsmiths, University of London

17-18 February 2012

Programme of Events


Friday 17 February
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre


9:00 – 9:45
Registration and Check-In


Morning Session


9:45 – 9:55
Introduction and Opening Remarks
Philippa Burt, Scheherazaad Cooper and Rebecca McFadden
The Politics of Practice co-chairs

10:00 – 10:15
Marko Stamenkovic
PhD Center for Ethics and Value Enquiry – Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences
University of Ghent, Belguim
A Suicide Note

Paper to be delivered by Dafne Louzioti, Goldsmiths, University of London

10:15 – 10:25
Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

10:30 – 10:45
Emma Gascoigne
PhD Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute
University of Glasgow
From the Ground Up: The Grass Roots Development of Social Media Practice within Glasgow Museums

10:45 – 10:55
Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

11:00 – 11:15
Tim Jeeves
PhD Theatre Studies
University of Lancaster and the Free University of Liverpool
Gift and the Temporal Interface Between Generosity and Capitalism

11:15 – 11:25
Question and Answer Session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

11:30 – 11:45
Anka Herbut
PhD European Studies
Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Let’s Undress the Natural

11:45 – 11:55
Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

12:00 – 12:15
Coffee Break

12:15 – 12:30
Petra Bolte-Picker
PhD Institute for Applied Theatre Studies
Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen
The Voice of the Body – Vocality and Social Practice in the Theatre of Physiology

12:30 – 12:40
Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

12:45 – 13:00
Flora Pitrolo
PhD Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance
Roehampton University
Surface Games: The Case of Antonio Syxty

13:00 – 13:10
Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

13:15 – 13:30
Stella Dimitrakopoulou
PhD Creative Practice: Dance
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
On Contemporaneity of Copying

13:30 – 13:40
Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt


13:40 – 14:40
Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:40 – 15:40
Panel Discussion
In the light of shifting national and political boundaries, how do global changes effect our understanding and experience of 'local' practices?

Panel Discussion led by Scheherazaad Cooper, Goldsmiths, University of London

15:40 – 15:45
Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:00
Ewa Jelen
PhD Department of Social Science
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Let Me Frame Your Pain – Photographic Stories that Sustain (Western) Social Order

16:00 – 16:10
Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

16:15 – 16:30
Marie Therese Shortt
PhD Creative Arts
University for the Creative Arts Rochester
Patterning Culture: Documenting and Mediating Greeting Rituals in Multicultural Cities

16:30 – 16:40
Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

16:45 – 17:00
Estelle Zhong
PhD Department of Art History
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
The Community of Singularities: New Representations of the Individual and the Community in Lone Twin’s Boat Project

17:00 – 17:10
Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

17:15 – 17:30
Felicitas Zeeden
PhD ‘InterArt’ Graduate School
Freie Universität, Berlin
The Real Fiction, Theatre Performances as Social Practice

17:30 – 17:40
Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden


17:40 – 17:45
Closing Remarks
Rebecca McFadden The Politics of Practice co-chair



Performance:
Studio 3, Goldsmiths University of London
Followed by Question and Answer session with the artists led by Philippa Burt

18:00 – 18:45
Stella Dimitrakopoulou
The Last Lecture (a performance)

18:45 Interval

19:00 – 19:45
Jim Brook and Belinda Bell
Two Sides to an Envelope: an Act of Self-determination

20:00 – 22:30
Evening Reception
Location: The Amersham Arms, New Cross


Saturday 18 February
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

9:15 – 9:45
Registration and Check-In

Morning Session

9:45 – 9:55
Opening Remarks
Philippa Burt, The Politics of Practice co-chair

10:00 – 10:15
Camilla Stanger
MA Educational Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London
Heterogeneity and Cultural Practice within the A Level Dance class: from a Pedagogy of Oppression to a Pedagogy of Liberation?

10:15 – 10:25
Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

10:30 – 10:45
Stephanie Brocken
PhD Department of Arts and Media
University of Chester
Fragmented Adulthood, Fragmented Practice: Towards a Contemporary Approach to Using the Arts with Young People

10:45 – 10:55
Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

11:00 – 11:15
Patrick Doyle
PhD Department of History
University of Manchester
The Role of the Irish Co-operative Movement in Shaping Irish Rural Society

11:15 – 11:25
Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

11:25 – 11:40
Coffee Break

11:45 – 12:00
Rebecca McFadden
PhD Department of Theatre and Performance
Goldsmiths, University of London
The Czech Theatre Landscape in Flux: Transformation, Continuity and Rupture since 1989

12:00 – 12:10
Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

12:15 – 12:30
Weila Gong
PhD Graduate School of Global Politics
Freie Universität Berlin
An Analysis of Chinese Cultural Diplomacy’s Effect – a Comparison of the Development of Confucius Institutes in Europe and Southeast Asia

12:30 – 12:40
Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

12:45 – 13:00
Sukanya Sompiboon
PhD Department of Drama
University of Exeter
Bridging the Gap of Aesthetic Judgement: the Political-cultural Praxis in Makhampom Likay Production

13:00 – 13:10
Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

13:15 – 13:30
Scheherazaad Cooper
PhD Department of Theatre and Performance
Goldsmiths, University of London
‘I am not an Immigrant’: the Next Step in the Performance of Identity in Indian Classical Dance

13:30 – 13:40
Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

13:40 – 14:40
Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:45 – 15:00
Stephen Millar
MPhil Department of Music
University of Glasgow
Musically Consonant, Socially Dissonant: Orange Parades and Catholic Interpretation in West-Central Scotland

15:00 – 15:10
Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

15:15 – 15:30
Aude de Caunes
PhD Department of European and International Studies
King’s College London
Nettoyage au Karcher: Symbolic Violence and Cultural Resistance in Musical Practices of Contemporary French Postcolonial Communities – from Radical Expression to Political Rebellion?

15:30 – 15:40
Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

15:45 – 16:00
Bill Mann
PhD Department of Music
University of Glasgow
‘Culture Wars’? – London 1705-11

16:00 – 16:10
Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

16:15 – 16:30
Philippa Burt
PhD Department of Theatre and Performance
Goldsmiths, University of London
‘Anton and Cleopatrova’: Komisarjevsky’s ‘Russian’ Shakespeare Productions and the Reaction of the British Theatre Institution

16:30 – 16:40
Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

16:40 – 16:50
Coffee Break

16:50 – 17:50
Roundtable Discussion

The politics of practice and the practice of politics – discuss

Roundtable Discussion led by Rebecca McFadden, Goldsmiths, University of London


17:50 – 18:00
Closing Remarks
Philippa Burt, Scheherazaad Cooper and Rebecca McFadden
The Politics of Practice co-chairs

18:00 – 23:00
Evening reception for participants and their guests
Location: The Amersham Arms, New Cross