Last Chance to Register Attendance for Culture in Crisis

We are nearly at capacity, but there are a few more places left for Culture in Crisis, an interdisciplinary colloquium for postgraduate students organised and run by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group. 

Full details of the programme are below. Please email stpr.group@gmail.com to register your attendance. 

Culture in Crisis – Programme Schedule

We are delighted to announce the confirmed schedule for Culture In Crisis, the seventh interdisciplinary colloquium for postgraduate students organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance. 

To book your place at the colloquium, please email stpr.group@gmail.com

Friday 31 May 2013 

Goldsmith University of London

Programme of Events

Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre                                                                     

9:00 – 9:45

Registration and Check-In

9:45 – 9:55

Introduction and Opening Remarks

 Session One

10:00 – 10:15

Angels Miralda Tena

PhD Critical and Historical Studies

Royal College of Art

Changing of the World as Condition of Contemporary Culture

10:15 – 10:25

Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

10:30 – 10:45

Kyoko Iwaki

PhD Department of Theatre and Performance

Goldsmiths, University of London

Social Media as a Form of Witness Art after the Fukushima Crisis

10:45 – 10:55

Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

11:00 – 11:15

Swen Steinhauser

PhD Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies

University of Leeds

Im/Possibilities of response: Walter Benjamin’s precarious stance at the crossroads of crisis

11:15 – 11:25

Question and Answer Session led by Philippa Burt

11:30 – 11:45

Coffee Break

 Session Two

11:45 – 12:00

Jonas Leonhard Tinius

PhD Division of Social Anthropology

University of Cambridge

Patronage and Crisis: German theatre and cultural politics

12:00 – 12:10

Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

12:15 – 12:30

Stuart Cartland

PhD Faculty of Arts

University of Brighton 

Identity in crisis/ as crisis?  Identity, crisis, discourse and the use of immigration

12:30 – 12:40

Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

12:45 – 13:00

Stephanie O’Connor

MA Christian Theology

Heythrop College

Utilitarianism: The Crisis of Education

13:00 – 13:10

Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

13:15 – 14:15

Break for Lunch

14:15 – 15:15

Panel Discussion

‘Encountering crisis: strategies and interventions for the present’?

Panellists TBC

Led by Rebecca McFadden, Goldsmiths, University of London

15:15– 15:30

Coffee Break

Session Three

15:30 – 15:45

Manette Kaisershot

PhD Political Economy

Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London

The Effects of the Global Financial Crisis and Why it is a Human Rights Issue

15:45 – 15:55

Question and Answer session led by Kyoko Iwaki

16:00 – 16:15

Tim Jeeves

PhD Theatre Studies

University of Lancaster 

The work of Kim Noble as Illustration of the Transgressive Potentialities of Generosity

16:15 – 16:25

Question and Answer session led by Kyoko Iwaki

16:30 – 16:50

Ruth Maclennan

PhD Photography

Royal College of Arts

Film Screening (introduced by the artist): Dialogue #5 (It’s not your problem)

16:50 – 17:10

Question and Answer session led by Kyoko Iwaki

17:10-17:20

Short break

17:20 – 18:20

Roundtable discussion

Location: NAB 302

Led by Scheherazaad Cooper, Goldsmiths 

Call for Papers: Culture in Crisis

The Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group are delighted to release the Call for Papers for Culture in Crisis, a one-day postgraduate colloquium held at Goldsmiths, University of London. This will be our seventh annual colloquium organised specifically for postgraduate students, providing them with a space to meet their peers and share their ideas.

Please find the Call for Papers below. The colloquium will take place on Friday 31 May 2013 and the deadline for abstract submission is Monday 8 April.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Culture in Crisis

A One-Day Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students

31 May 2013

Goldsmiths, University of London

How can a crisis be said to influence, shape or threaten culture? Taking into consideration the wide range of crises that face societies past and present, this student-led colloquium for postgraduates will explore the various ways in which culture is practised in times of crisis.

This call for papers invites postgraduate students from a wide range of disciplines and with interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the relationship between culture and crisis. Responses to this question can refer, but are not limited to: economic crises; political crises, including wars and revolutions; social crises; moral crises; religious crises; how geological crises and natural disasters – Tsunamis, earthquakes, and avalanches – impact social groups, and how their responses to these crises are culturally enacted; and whether culture can, itself, be said to be in crisis.

Culture in Crisis is the seventh annual postgraduate colloquium organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group (STPRG) at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the direction of Professor Maria Shevtsova. This event will draw on the issues of process and transmission examined in previous colloquia, including Appropriating Space (2008), Bodies and Socio-Histories (2010) and The Politics of Practice (2012). Culture in Crisis will provide an opportunity for postgraduates to engage with their peers across disciplines in a challenging and supportive environment. In addition to showcasing their own research, delegates will be invited to participate in roundtable discussions. The STPRG is committed to facilitating opportunities for postgraduates across the globe to come together and exchange ideas in a truly interdisciplinary context.

We warmly welcome submissions from postgraduate research students for individual papers or practice-based presentations that do not exceed 15 minutes. Please submit your name, department, university, conference paper title and 250-word abstract to stpr.group@gmail.com.

Deadline for applications is 8 April 2013

Please don’t hesitate to contact us on stpr.group@gmail.com with any queries you may have. We look forward to hearing from you!

Philippa Burt, Scheherazaad Cooper, Kyoko Iwaki, Rebecca McFadden and Arabella Stanger

Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group

Department of Theatre and Performance

Goldsmiths, University of London