Thursday 15 December 2016
Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square
10 : 00-17 : 00
Arrival from 9: 30, where there will be tea and coffee
Introduction | Welcome
10:00-11:15 | SESSION ONE : PERFORMING WORK, THEORISING ENTREPRISE | chaired by Tim Markham
Sara Lindén | Fashion Films, Consumer Culture and the Female Work Force
Jaswinder Blackwell | ‘Smile You’re on Stage’: Acting Out Emotional Labour in the Service Sector
Elena Shampanova | Entrepreneurship in the Arts
11: 15-12: 30 SESSION TWO : THEORISING EMERGENT VOICES | chaired by Luisa Calè
Sarah Molyneaux | Gender Performances in UK food blogs and vlogs
Melanie McGovern | Graphic Medicine and the Female Illness Narrative
Carly Robinson | Can the Deleuzo-Guattarian Concept of Becoming-Woman be used as a Model for a Progressive Feminist Narrative Form in Contemporary Fiction?
12: 30-13:30 | lunch | own arrangements
13: 30-14: 45 | SESSION THREE : SPATIAL ARRANGMENTS AND THE THEORETICAL MAPPING OF EXPERIENCE | chaired by Emma Sandon
Mara Arts | Representation of the London Night in British Film and Press, 1919-1939
Miloš Kosec | Reluctant Architects: Renunciation, Delegation and Passivity in Contemporary Critical Architecture
Giancarlo M. Sandoval | Transmodern Makers and Platforms: A Digital Ethnography and Cross-cultural Analysis of the Maker Movement in Lima and London.
14:45: 16:00 | SESSION 4 : DREAMING OF FAR AWAY PLACES : DREAM SPACES AND IMAGINING THE OTHER | chaired by Andrew Asibong
Miriam Al Jamil | Women and the Classical Canon of Sculpture in the Eighteenth Century
Giulia Bindi | Dreamini: Fellini’s Hometown as Source and Solution of his Neuroses
Emmanuel Ohajah | Why Are We So Concerned with Nigerian Cybercrime?
15min comfort break
16: 15-17: 00 | RESEARCH MATTERS | a discussion chaired by Janet McCabe, with Bartek Dziadosz, Director of The Derek Jarman Lab, Filmmaker and PhD Candidate in FMACS, and Dr. Lily Ford, Deputy Director of the Lab, filmmaker and producer, who will discuss practice as research, the essay film and excerpts from The Seasons in Quincy : Four Portraits of John Berger (2016)
The symposium is scheduled to end at 5pm,
after which winter drinks will be served in the Keynes, 43 Gordon Square at 6pm