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

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/



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