[ecrea] Critical Luxury Studies

Critical Luxury Studies, May 21 2015

*An interdisciplinary seminar featuring critical approaches to
contemporary luxury studies focusing on aesthetic, design-led and media
practices.*

Location: Harvard Lecture Suite, Winchester School of Art.
Time: 21 May 2015, 9.00 - 18.00

*Programme*

9:00 – 9:15 Coffee
9.15 – 9.30 Welcome and Introduction
9.30:– 10:00 Critical Luxury Studies: Defining a Field? John Armitage
and Joanne Roberts, University of Southampton
10:00 – 10:30 Luxury, Simplicity, and Sustainability, Christopher J.
Berry, University of Glasgow

10.30 -10.50 Coffee

10:50 – 11:20 Luxus: A Thanatology of Luxury from Nero to Bataille, Mark
Featherstone, Keele University
11:20 – 11:50 Brand Art Sensation: A Mass Debate. A Solo Exhibition and
Public Forum Parodying Celebrity Art and Luxury Branding, Giulia Zaniol,
University of Southampton
11:50 – 12:30 Discussion

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:00 Word-Things and Space-Sounds: The Synaesthetic Rhetorics
of Luxury, Crispin Thurlow, University of Bern
14:00 – 14:30 Thinking through Luxury (in Anthropology): On the Cultural
Politics of Luxury, Inequality and Anti-Work Ethic in India, Tereza
Kuldova, University of Oslo
14:30 – 15:00 Classical, A String of Luxury: The Power of the Particular
in Bjork’s Music, Thomaï Serdari, New York University
15.00 – 15.20 Coffee
15:20 – 15:50 Fashionable Luxury or Luxurious Fashion? Reflections on
Contemporary Luxury Status, Paula von Wachenfeldt, Stockholm University
15:50 – 16:20 In a Galaxy Far, Far Away…’ C-3PO, Mink and the Promise of
Disruptive Luxury Jonathan Faiers, University of Southampton
16:20-17:00 Discussion

17.00 – 17.30 Ways Forward

Seminar close

For further information please contact Professor John Armitage
(j.armitage /at/ soton.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.armitage /at/ soton.ac.uk)>

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