Many thanks, and look forward to seeing you all there.
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NOW, Legacies and Amnesia
18-19 February 2011
Goldsmiths, University of London
Programme of Events
Goldsmiths, University of London
Programme of Events
Friday, 18 February 2011
10:45-11:15 Registration and Check-in
Location: Stretch Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union
Morning Session
Location: Small Hall
Location: Small Hall
11:15- 11:30 Introduction and Opening Remarks
Philippa Burt and Scheherazaad Cooper,
NOW, Legacies and Amnesia Co-Chairs
11:30- 11:45 Frauke Surmann
PhD InterArt Graduate School
Freie Universität Berlin
The Torture of the Now: The Body as Scene of collective Jurisdiction in contemporary Russian Performance Art
11:45-11:55 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
11:55- 12:10 Paul Edmondson
PhD Department of Drama
University of Exeter
Narratives of Performance: Boxers, Legacy and Redemption
12:10-12:20 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
12:20-12:35 Pamela Kember
PhD Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN)
University of the Arts, London
Where to Now? : Paul Chan's Waiting for Godot, in New Orleans
12:35-12:45 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
12:45- 13:00 Break for coffee, tea and biscuits
13:00-13:15 Aisha Phoenix
PhD Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London
No future in Palestine: how Palestinian university students’ experiences of the present and readings of the past affect their orientations to the future
13:15-13:25 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
13:25-13:40 Carolina Leonardini-Aris
PhD Faculty of Health and Wellbeing
University of Cumbria
Healthy warriors face global illness: Tourism boom and perceptions of HIV/AIDS on Easter Island
13:40-13:50 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
13:50-14:05 Moustafa Menshawy
PhD Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Westminster
Egypt: Culture and the collective memories of Wars
14:05-14:15 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
14:15-14:30 Red Chidgey
PhD Centre for Media and Cultural Studies
London South Bank University
The Need for the New in Feminist Activist Discourse
14:30-14:40 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
14:40-15:40 Break for Lunch
Afternoon Session
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre
15:40- 15:55 Joseph Luna
PhD School of English
University of Sussex
“the future comes alive / now” – Achieving contemporaneousness in modern poetry
15:55-16:05 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
16:05-16:20 Rebecca McFadden
PhD Department of Drama
Goldsmiths, University of London
Contested Traditions at Home and Abroad: Hybrid Theatre Forms in Contemporary Czech Theatre
16:20-16:30 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
16:30-16:45 Scheherazaad Cooper
PhD Department of Drama
Goldsmiths, University of London
‘A body of tradition’: the cycle of maintenance and betrayal in contemporary Indian classical choreography.
16:45-16:55 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
16:55- 17:10 Break for coffee, tea and biscuits
17:10-18:10 Konstantin Stanislavsky’s exhortation that his actors exist in the ‘Here, Today, Now’ was rooted in a belief that the more precise their understanding of the situation, the more precise their response to it would be. Confronted as we are on all sides by harbingers of doom and rhetoric surrounding our ‘age of uncertainty’, does a playful call to live in the moment seem decadent and irresponsible? How can we, as early-career academics, use Stanislavsky’s approach to grapple not only with our temporal location, but our socio-historical-political context?
Led by Rebecca McFadden, Goldsmiths, University of London
18:10-18:20 Closing Remarks
Scheherazaad Cooper, NOW, Legacies and Amnesia Co-Chair
18:30-21:00 Refreshments
Location: The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union
Saturday, 19 February 2011
10:00- 10:30 Registration and Check-In
Location: Ben Pimlott Building, Foyer
Morning Session
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre
10:30-10:40 Opening Remarks
Philippa Burt, NOW, Legacies and Amnesia Co-Chairs
10:40-10:55 Jamie Furniss
D.Phil Department of International Development
Oxford University
Past, not Future, as Locus of ‘Progress’
10:55-11:05 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
11:05-11:20 Matt Cawson
PhD Department of Drama and Theatre
Royal Holloway, University of London
The Mask and The Now
11:20-11:30 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
11:30-11:45 Christopher Engdahl
PhD Department of Choreography
University College Falmouth
Choreography 2.0 – choreographic authorship via web 2.0
11:45-11:55 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
11:55-12:10 Break for coffee, tea and biscuits
12:10-13:10 Panel Discussion
More than at any previous time in history, we are continually engaged in the simultaneous living/authoring and reporting/critiquing of our lives. To what extent does the click-here label culture of the internet, social media, and 24-hour blogging prescribe rather than describe the present moment?
Panellists:
Marianne Burton
PhD Department of English
Royal Holloway, University of London
Jamie Furniss
D.Phil Department of International Development
Oxford University
Eleanor Dare
PhD Department of Computing
Goldsmiths, Universtiy of London
Frauke Surmann
PhD InterArt Graduate School
Freie Universität Berlin
Panel Discussion led by Rebecca McFadden, Goldsmiths, University of London
13:10-14:10 Break for Lunch
Afternoon Session
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre
14:10-14:25 Verónica Rodríguez
PhD Deparment of English and German Studies
University of Barcelona, Spain
Amnesiac Legacies? Cognitively Mapping Traumatic Experiences in Ashes to Ashes and Mapping. Time: NOW
14:25-14:35 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
14:35-14:50 Eleanor Dare
PhD Department of Computing
Goldsmiths, University of London
Tensers and Detensers: lost memories and embodied traces
14:50-15:00 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
15:00-15:15 Marianne Burton
PhD Department of English
Royal Holloway, University of London
Present Spilling From The Past: a performance based talk and poetry reading.
15:15-15:25 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
15:25-15:40 Break for tea, coffee and biscuits
15:40-15:55 Muyesser Ozlem Basak
PhD Department of History
Goldsmiths, University of London
‘Now-time’ of Revelation and Hope in Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch
15:55-16:05 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
16:05-16:20 Katherine Symonds
MLitt Department of Classics
University of Glasgow
Classics through a lens: warped perceptions of literary origin based upon later misconception
16:20-16:30 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
16:30-16:45 Philippa Burt
PhD Department of Drama
Goldsmiths, University of London
The lost legacy of Harley Granville Barker: the selective amnesia of British theatre
16:45-16:55 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
Performance:
George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London
Followed by Question and Answer session with the artists led by Rebecca McFadden
17:30-18:15 Tunji Sotimirin
Mofobale (Consolidation)
18:15-18:30 Interval
18:30-19:15 Scheherazaad Cooper
The Lament of the Reed
19:15-19:30 Closing Remarks
Philippa Burt and Scheherazaad Cooper, NOW, Legacies and Amnesia Co-Chairs
19:30-23:00 Closing Night Reception for participants and their guests
Location: Café Crema
