The Politics of Practice. 17-18 February 2012. Goldsmiths, University of London

The Politics of Practice

An International Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students

17-18 February 2012. Goldsmiths, University of London

http://www.gold.ac.uk/theatre-performance/sociologyoftheatreandperformanceresearchgroup/

The social nature of various professional practices is often submerged as normal behaviour. Recognising this phenomenon, Pierre Bourdieu argues for the necessity of a transparent and fully contextualized understanding of the ways in which cultural producers, practices and products are socially constituted and, reciprocally, shape their societies. How might group or individual practice, within and across fields, be analysed and examined as a social process?

The Politics of Practice is the sixth 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 international event will draw on the issues of process and transmission examined in previous colloquia, including Appropriating Space (2008),Bodies and Socio-Histories (2010) and NOW, Legacies and Amnesia (2011). The Politics of Practice 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 participate in roundtable discussions and panel sessions over the course of the two-day conference.

Programme 

http://stprgroup.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-of-practice-programme.html

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

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

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

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