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