Archive for 2014

[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]

[ecrea] Prefiguration in Contemporary Activism: A CTIS/CIDRAL workshop

Mon Dec 01 14:58:58 GMT 2014



Prefiguration in Contemporary Activism: A CTIS/CIDRAL workshop

SALC University of Manchester

4 December 2014 (Registration deadline Monday 1 December)
http://prefigurationactivism.wordpress.com/programme/
Prefiguration, or ‘prefigurative politics’, involves experimenting with ways of enacting the principles being advocated by an activist group in the here and now, rather than at some future point when the conditions for the ‘ideal society’ have already been created, thus collapsing the traditional distinction between means and ends.

This workshop, featuring keynote speaker Marianne Maeckelbergh (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, Netherlands), will explore organisational and structural practices that prefigure activist principles and actualise them in the present. It will also extend the definition of prefiguration to encompass experimentation in textual, visual and aesthetic practices.
Programme
8:45-9:30 Registration & coffee

9:30-9:40 Introductions

9:40-11:10 Keynote Speaker

* Dr Marianne Maeckelbergh (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University) – ‘The Prefigurative Turn’

11:10-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Panel

* Dr Luke Yates (University of Manchester) – ‘Legitimacy, Efficacy and Imagination: Prefiguration in Social Movements’ * Dinithi Karunanayake (University of Manchester) – ‘Prefigurative Politics and the Open and Wayside Theatre in Sri Lanka’ * Rebecca Johnson (University of Manchester) – ‘”Iraq is the New Black”: A Case Study in Prefigurative Activist Hip Hop’

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Panel

* Paula Serafini (King’s College London) – ‘Politics of Art Activism: Institutions and Prefiguration’ * Dang Li (University of Manchester) – ‘New Media Practices among Chinese Youth: A Prefigurative Culture in the Making’ * Dr Jenny Hughes (University of Manchester) – ‘Theatricality, gesture and protest: the ‘figure’ in prefiguration in contemporary activism’

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00 Panel

* Mathijs van de Sande (KU Leuven) – ‘The Politics of Free Time: Prefiguring a New Time Regime’ * Sian Rees (Goldsmiths, University of London) – ‘Prefiguration at Burning Man – Fleeting Intimations of a Better World’

17:00-17:15 Close



Jackie Stacey
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and Languages (CIDRAL)
http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cidral/



---------------
ECREA-Mailing list
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier and ECREA.
--
To subscribe, post or unsubscribe, please visit
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ncarpent/
--
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
Chauss�de Waterloo 1151, 1180 Uccle, Belgium
Email: (info /at/ ecrea.eu)
URL: http://www.ecrea.eu
---------------


[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]